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+changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
+  * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
+    MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
+  * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
+    (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
+  * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
+    SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
+    this change is to make it easier to distribute
+    location-independent binaries.
+  * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
+    slots named by external symbols of public packages.  (reported by
+    Pascal Costanza)
+  * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in 
+    (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
+    via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
+  * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
+    case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
+    to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
+    particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing.  (thanks to
+    Alastair Bridgewater)
+  * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
+    more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
+    functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
+  * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
+  * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
+    be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one 
+    executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
+    platforms.  (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
+  * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
+    the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin).  The
+    old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
+    (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
+  * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
+    contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
+    links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
+    in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
+  * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
+    markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
   * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
     certain complicated string types.  (reported by Gary King)
   * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
     character codes.  (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev)
+  * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an 
+    error if no structure type of the right name exists.  (reported by
+    Glenn Ehrlich)
+  * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
+    applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
+    INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
+    no longer cause unbound variable errors.  (reported by Kevin Reid)
+  * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
+    added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD.  (reported by Jean
+    Bresson)
+  * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
+    sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
+    15th bit of the address, fixed at link time).  This used to
+    manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
+    (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
+    many others over the years)
+  * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
+    the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
+    (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
   * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
@@ -59,7 +117,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
        that don't have a docstring
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+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
   * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
     GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and