X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=16323bc69f208ce210e6876799baa57507128a9f;hb=d94c1b4a8c534bde146823f56558faf37cd4c4d7;hp=88709b9a5223fb52d3df22168cd5d568ab89a431;hpb=e981481e65e869a92420616163b2ba3ec68b25d7;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 88709b9..16323bc 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,64 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.52: +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53: + * minor incompatible changes: + ** RENAME-FILE on a symbolic links used to rename the linked-to file instead + of the link. + ** DELETE-DIRECTORY on symbolic link to a directory used to delete the + directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve + the pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE + if you wish to delete the + ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using + symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning. + * thread-related enhancements: + (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign. + Many thanks to generous donors!) + ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still + don't consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to + enable them by default, but they're in a clearly better shape now. + ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms. + ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT + argument. + ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD. + ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects. + ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE, + STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS. + ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP + using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places. + * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more + descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100) + * enhancement: on GENCGC systems nursery and generation sizes now default to + 5% of dynamic-space size. + * enhancement: on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does + the same validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a + comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces. + * enhancement: on win32, ABS of complex floats guards better against + overflows. (lp#888410) + * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child + process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987) + * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing + the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are + located. (Thanks to Zach Beane) + * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation + correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220) + * bug fix: (directory "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that + resolved to directories. + * bug fix: SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ on GENCGC no longer categorically + refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects. + * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer + result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750) + * bug fix: type mismatch on (setf aref) and function return values no + longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. + * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS issues + ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak. + ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on + systems with getaddrinfo(). + ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt + safe outside systems with getaddrinfo(). + * bug fix: on 64-bit systems setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works. + (lp#870868) + * bug fix: SB-POSIX tests failed on OpenBSD 5.0. (lp#892707) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52: * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp, the parameter n-fixnum-tag-bits may now vary from 1 (fixnum = (signed-byte 63)) to 3 (fixnum = (signed-byte 61)) at build-time.