X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=NEWS;h=c66e659ebf0e99534c7f12d1d8420f1c4e0c14f9;hb=768c5a8589e9b48afa2c610331673e90e093ccbe;hp=6d79fba8391549bb5276cfb70eb9a7daddeca113;hpb=cb83aa22932bf4b9bc74ac6f0fcd91db1702ad33;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 6d79fba..c66e659 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,16 +1,35 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.2 relative to sbcl-1.0.1: + * improvement: experimental support for mach exception handling on + x86/macos. requires building with :MACH-EXCEPTION-HANDLER feature + to use. + * improvement: support for GBK external format. + (thanks to Chun Tian (binghe)) + * improvement: the debugger now displays variables that have been closed + over, in code compiled with (DEBUG 2) or higher + * bug fix: an error is signaled for attempts to use READ-SEQUENCE + for a (SIGNED-BYTE 8) stream and (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) vector, or vice versa. + (thanks to Tony Martinez) + * bug fix: the initforms for DEFMETHOD &AUX parameters are only + evaluated once (reported by Kevin Reid) + changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0: + * new platform: FreeBSD/x86-64, including support for threading. * new feature: the compiler stores cross-referencing information abount function calls (who-calls), macroexpansion (who-macroexpands) and special variables (who-binds, who-sets, who-references) for code compiled with (< SPACE 3). This information is available through the sb-introspect contrib. + * new feature: users may subclass SEQUENCE, and have instances of + these classes interoperate with standard Common Lisp functions if + a number of methods are defined. (This feature is experimental + and the interface subject to change based on feedback from SBCL + users and the general community) * improvement: sb-sprof traces call stacks to an arbitrary depth on x86/x86-64, rather than the previous fixed depth of 8 + * improvement: another pthread back-end of mutex "pthread-futex". * bug fix: non-ascii command-line arguments are processed correctly (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) - * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints) - work on Windows. * bug fix: non-required arguments were not passed correctly when a method defined using DEFMETHOD was called from a mop-generated method using CALL-NEXT-METHOD (reported by Pascal Costanza) @@ -31,6 +50,13 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.1 relative to sbcl-1.0: * optimization: the FIND and POSITION family of sequence functions are significantly faster on arrays whose element types have been declared. + * improvements to the Windows port: + ** Intermittent heap corruption problems have been fixed. (thanks + to Alastair Bridgewater) + ** TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL (and function end breakpoints) + work on Windows. + ** Lisp is able to unwind foreign exception frames from alien + callbacks. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) changes in sbcl-1.0 relative to sbcl-0.9.18: * improvement: experimental support for threading on FreeBSD/x86.