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@@ -1191,6 +1191,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
     is no longer a static symbol.)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
+  * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
+    based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made.  This, even more so
+    than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
+    progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
+    mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
+    userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
+    work yet.
   * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
     functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
     suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
@@ -1203,9 +1210,65 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
     or very deeply nested recursion) has changed.  Stack exhaustion
     detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
     and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
-    SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK_EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
+    SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
     STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
-    be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS
+    be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
+  * Bugs 65, 70, and 109 fixed: The compiler now preserves invariants
+    correctly when transforming recursive LABELS functions to LETs.
+    (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
+    that are names of constants or global variables.
+  * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
+    alien routines with docstrings.
+  * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
+    error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
+    Raymond Toy)
+  * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
+    (thanks to Eric Marsden)
+  * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
+    object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
+  * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
+    LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
+  * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
+    to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
+  * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
+    lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
+    functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
+    MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
+    to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
+  * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
+    constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
+    Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
+  * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
+    types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
+  * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
+    OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
+    behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE.  This puts its behaviour more
+    in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
+    Marco Antinotti)
+  * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
+    bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
+  * A beta-quality port to the mips architecture running Linux,
+    based on the old CMUCL backend, has been made.  It has been tested
+    on a big-endian kernel, and works sufficiently well to be able to
+    rebuild itself; it has not been tested in little-endian mode.
+  * fixed bug 120a: The compiler now deals correctly with IFs where
+    the consequent is the same as the alternative, instead of
+    misderiving the return type. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * fixed bug 113: Logical pathnames are now dumpable (the logical
+    host is resolved at load-time, throwing an error if it is not
+    found).
+  * fixed bug 174: FORMAT's error message is slightly clearer when a
+    non-printing character is used in a format directive.
+  * fixed several bugs in compiler checking of type declarations, i.e.
+    violations of the Python "declarations are assertions" principle
+    (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * fixed several bugs in PCL's error checking (thanks to Gerd
+    Moellmann)
+  * fixed bug in printing of FILE-ERROR (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe