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@@ -1298,14 +1298,52 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.8 relative to sbcl-0.7.7:
     thing to do.)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.7.9 relative to sbcl-0.7.8:
-  * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away
+  * minor incompatible change: The runtime (the Unix executable named
+    "sbcl") is now much pickier about the .core files it will load.
+    Essentially it now requires .core files to descend from the same
+    build (not just the same sources or LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION)
+    as the runtime does. (The intent is to prevent the crashes which
+    can occur, and which can even be reported as mysterious failures,
+    when people patch the sources or change the build parameters
+    without changing LISP-IMPLEMENTATION-VERSION, then mix and match
+    sbcl and .core files.)
+  * fixed bug: VALUES-LIST is no longer optimized away.
   * fixed bug 142: The FFI conversion of C string values to Lisp
     string values no longer conses excessively. (thanks to Nathan
     Froyd porting Raymond Toy's fix to CMU CL)
-  * improved MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to Nathan Froyd porting
-    Gerd Moellman's work in CMU CL)
-  * fixed bug 202: the compiler failed on a function, which derived
-    type contradicted declared.
+  * began to systematize and improve MOP conformance in PCL (thanks to
+    Nathan Froyd, Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
+    ** SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION now returns :CLASS, not the class
+       itself;
+    ** GENERIC-FUNCTION-ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER is now implemented;
+    ** FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now called on class finalization;
+    ** DOCUMENTATION and (SETF DOCUMENTATION) now have the correct
+       argument precedence order.
+  * fixed bug 202: The compiler no longer fails on functions whose
+    derived types contradict their declared type.
+  * DEFMACRO is implemented via EVAL-WHEN instead of IR1 translation,
+    so it can be non-toplevel.
+  * The fasl file version number has changed (because of the new
+    implementation of DEFMACRO).
+  * (mostly) fixed bugs 46b and 46c: sequence functions now check, in
+    safe code, that any length requirement by their type-specifier
+    argument is valid.  The exceptions to this are described in bug
+    213.
+  * fixed bugs 46h and 46i: TWO-WAY- and CONCATENATED-STREAM creation
+    functions now check the types of their inputs as required by ANSI.
+  * fixed bug 48c: SYMBOL-MACROLET signals PROGRAM-ERROR when an
+    introduced symbol is DECLAREd to be SPECIAL.
+  * fixed reading of (COMPLEX DOUBLE-FLOAT) literals from fasl files
+  * fixed bug: :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be negative
+  * fixed bug: body of DO-SYMBOLS may contain declarations
+  * fixed bug: PUSHNEW now evaluates its arguments from left to right
+    (reported by Paul F. Dietz, fixed by Gerd Moellman)
+  * fixed bug: PUSH, PUSHNEW and POP now evaluate a place given by a
+    symbol macro only once
+  * fixed printing of call frame when argument list is unavailable
+  * fixed bug: :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS is an allowed keyword name
+  * compiler no longer signals WARNING on unknown keyword
+    :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe