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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.19 (1.0.0?) relative to sbcl-0.9.18:
+  * improvement: floating point modes in effect are now saved in
+    core, and restored on startup.
+  * improvements to the Windows port:
+    ** floating point exceptions are now reported correctly.
+    ** stack exhaustion detection works partially.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.9.18 (1.0.beta?) relative to sbcl-0.9.17:
+  * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports cfsetispeed(3), cfsetospeed(3),
+    cfgetispeed(3), cfgetospeed(3), and related constants. (thanks to
+    Max-Gerd Retzlaff)
+  * bug fix: two potential GC deadlocks affecting threaded builds.
+  * bug fix: (TYPEP #\A '(NOT (MEMBER #\" #\{ #\:))) now correctly
+    returns T (reported by Anton Kazennikov)
+  * bug fix: the STORE-VALUE restart of CHECK-TYPE works correctly
+    with non-variable places
+  * bug fix: remove a race condition in the setting of
+    funcallable-instance functions, this should make threaded CLOS
+    code more stable against memory faults.
+  * bug fix: corruption of specials when unbinding is interrupted by an
+    asynchronous unwind (reported by Hannu Koivisto)
+  * improvement: the debugger will now also display local variables that
+    are only used once, for code compiled with a DEBUG optimization quality
+    of 2 or higher.
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
+  * feature: weak hash tables, see MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation
   * incompatible change: External-format support for FFI calls.  The
     SB-ALIEN:C-STRING no longer implies an ASCII
     external-format. Instead the string is subject to external-format
@@ -12,12 +38,25 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
     following unused symbols: *GC-NOTIFY-AFTER*, *GC-NOTIFY-BEFORE*,
     *GC-NOTIFY-STREAM*, *ERROR-PRINT-LENGTH*, *ERROR-PRINT-LEVEL*,
     *ERROR-PRINT-LINES*
+  * incompatible change: the single-stepper is no longer available 
+    on Alpha, Mips and Sparc platforms.
   * minor incompatible change: the direct superclasses of
     SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT are (FUNCTION STANDARD-OBJECT),
     not (STANDARD-OBJECT FUNCTION).  This makes the
     class-precedence-lists of GENERIC-FUNCTION and
     STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION comply with the requirement of ANSI
     1.4.4.5.
+  * minor incompatible change: the default stream external format on
+    non-unicode SBCL is no longer detected from the locale, but is always
+    ISO-8859-1
+  * new feature: Add a version of evaluator that uses an interpreter instead
+    of the compiler. EVAL still uses the compiler by default, to switch it
+    to use the interpreter, set the value of the variable 
+    SB-EXT:*EVALUATOR-MODE* to :INTERPRET.
+  * minor incompatible change: the single-stepper REPL has been merged
+    with the normal debugger (see the "Stepping" heading of the debugger help
+    for more details). The debugger command STEP will no longer switch
+    to the single-stepper REPL. 
   * bug fix: ENOUGH-NAMESTRING on pathnames with no name and a pattern
     for a type now works.
   * bug fix: loading of default sysinit file works. (thanks to Leonid
@@ -33,6 +72,15 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.17 (0.9.99?) relative to sbcl-0.9.16:
     Gracin).
   * bug fix: timers expiring in dead threads no longer cause a
     type-error (reported by Paul "Nonny Mouse"). 
+  * bug fix: thanks to more lightweight single-stepper instrumentation, 
+    code compiled with (DEBUG 3) will compile and execute significantly faster,
+    and will have more accurate type-inferencing than before
+  * bug fix: SLOT-VALUE optimizations are no longer done on method parameters
+    whose bindings are modified
+  * improvements to the win32 port (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk):
+    ** bug fix: arguments to RUN-PROGRAM are escaped correctly
+    ** replace dummy implementations of CL:MACHINE-INSTANCE and 
+       CL:SOFTWARE-VERSION with proper version
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.16 relative to sbcl-0.9.15:
   * feature: implemented the READER-METHOD-CLASS and