X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=20abf71e4ff809e88c4474f2997dfae60909371b;hb=b8a2248d3193902592fb58c5ea74209dc1124f08;hp=fe6735c4667d2436d06c6f7fdbac4ea40e9caed4;hpb=3eb0a28fe6a7912d6ff2b97221325c0e3bfc5703;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index fe6735c..20abf71 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,21 +1,58 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13: + * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the + new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's + somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and + additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently + implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for + the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter). + * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL + failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon) + * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY + starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK. + (reported by James Y Knight) + * improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support on Windows. (thanks to Timothy + Ritchey) + * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works + * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a + constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late + compilation stages. + +changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12: + * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion + errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller) + * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE* + * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in + TYPEP. + * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly + faster + * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel + forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading + changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11: - * Enhancements for sbcl running on the Windows operating system: - ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file - locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings" - directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) - ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas) - ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey) - ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) - ** sb-grovel supported - ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat - ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL + * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier + versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend + into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to + FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the + system return before any subclasses are finalized. * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests. * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to inhibit loading the corresponding init files + * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS, + for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau) * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe" error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau) + * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical + operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to + documentation on package locks for details. + * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the + compiler. + * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being + constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions. + (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki) * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was immediately available from the stream * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR @@ -25,11 +62,27 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11: by Utz-Uwe Haus) * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman) + * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name + list. + * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with + some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to + fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente + Mészároz) * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types: allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary King) + * improvements to the Win32/x86 port: + ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file + locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings" + directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas) + ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey) + ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + ** sb-grovel supported + ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat + ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port: ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express ** floating-point exception handling support @@ -41,6 +94,10 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11: structure accessors. ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C directive. + ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant + defaults for optional parameters. + ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a + function, which is already optimized. changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10: * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including