X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=0608abb1cd3ae92cf5e3b47f335185d9385fbcf4;hb=a2d206014a62e159ffda2529ac379c2e28bc281c;hp=c39179a0e9ad7fb54c136df1aa1388f0c9b44ce6;hpb=04d3bdf96e526ceb1651f9851e52ac9392e227f5;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c39179a..0608abb 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,8 +1,50 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.1.8: +changes in sbcl-1.1.11 relative to sbcl-1.1.10: + * enhancement: support building the manual under texinfo version 5. + (lp#1189146) + * enhancement: Windows builds no longer display the "Kitten of Death" message. + A warning is instead appended to the regular banner, and may be muted with + --noinform. (lp#728247) + * enhancement: support building under new linker handling of syscalls under + NetBSD. (thanks to Robert Swindells) + * bug fix: undefined function errors are now properly reported on PPC and MIPS. + (regression since 1.1.9) + * bug fix: (funcall (function X junk)) didn't causes an error when X had a + compiler macro. (thanks to Douglas Katzman). + * bug fix: signal a warning when defining a setf-function when a + setf-expander is already present. (thanks to Douglas Katzman). + * bug fix: improved threading on PPC. + * bug fix: ROOM works again on Windows. (lp#1206456) + * bug fix: Streams were flushed even when there was one byte still left in + the buffer. (lp#910213) + * bug fix: OPEN handles correctly when :if-exists and :if-does-not-exist are + either NIL or :ERROR. (reported by Jan Moringen) + +changes in sbcl-1.1.10 relative to sbcl-1.1.9: + * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to 3.0.2. + * optimization: stack frames are packed more efficiently on x86oids, which + ought to reduce the frequency of Methuselahn conservative references (it + certainly helps with gc.impure.lisp / BUG-936304 on x86). + * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, integer negation forms like (- x) are now + recognized in modular arithmetic contexts, and compile to native negate, + rather than going through bignums only to keep the low bits. + * bug fix: Compiling potential modularic arithmetic forms does not cause type + errors when some integer types lack lower or upper bounds. (lp#1199127) + * bug fix: Non-trivial modular arithmetic forms are always cut to the right + bitwidth before being used in a non-modular context. (lp#1199428) + * bug fix: Multiple catch/unwind blocks in a single function are now + allocated in the right stack order on win32. (lp#1072739) + +changes in sbcl-1.1.9 relative to sbcl-1.1.8: + * new feature: the contrib SB-GMP links with libgmp at runtime to speed + up arithmetic on bignums and ratios. (contributed by Stephan Frank) * enhancement: disassemble now annotates some previously missing static functions, like LENGTH. * enhancement: clean.sh now also cleans doc/internals. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:PRINT-SYMBOL-WITH-PREFIX can be used within ~// to + print a symbol with a package prefix. + * enhancement: The debugger and backtracing are more robust against buggy + PRINT-OBJECT methods. * optimization: calls to static functions on x86-64 use less instructions. * optimization: compute encode-universal-time at compile time when possible. * optimization: when referencing internal functions as #'x, don't go through @@ -18,6 +60,7 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.8: * optimization: comparisons between rationals and constant floats or between integers and constant ratios are now converted to rationals/integers at compile time. + * optimization: Smaller and faster DOUBLE-FLOAT-LOW-BITS on x86-64. * bug fix: problems with NCONC type derivation (reported by Jerry James). * bug fix: EXPT type derivation no longer constructs bogus floating-point types. (reported by Vsevolod Dyomkin) @@ -37,6 +80,11 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.8: or double float precision on x87. * bug fix: Known-safe vector access on x86oids should not fail spuriously when the index is of the form (+ x constant-positive-integer). + * bug fix: Remove GPL-licensed files from source distribution. (lp#1185668) + * bug fix: backtrace printer no longer tries to create very large lists when + the arg-count register is clobberred by other code. (lp#1192929) + * bug fix: x86 should never signal an FP exception while boxing an FP value, + a situation that lands us into ldb. changes in sbcl-1.1.8 relative to sbcl-1.1.7: * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of