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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
+  * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
+    SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced.  The experimental interface
+    function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
+    the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
+    which creates a list of specializers when evaluated.  Additional
+    functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
+    debugging and introspective support.
+  * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
+    has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
+    has the owning thread as its value.
+  * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
+    WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
+    for details.
+  * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
+    "a constant string".
+  * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)  
+  * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
+  * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
+    for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
+  * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
+    (depending on the bignum size.)
+  * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
+    on Linux.
+  * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
+    methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
+    interrupt safe.
+  * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
+    and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
+    fixed.)
+  * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
+  * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
+  * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or 
+    SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
+
 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
+  * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
+    as a contrib module.
+  * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS for unibyte encodings and UTF-8 is
+    significantly faster.
+  * optimization: calls of the form (AREF FOO (+ INDEX <constant>)) now
+    produce more efficient code on x86-64 if the compiler can determine
+    that (+ INDEX <constant>) does not require a bounds check and FOO
+    has an element type at least 8 bits wide.
   * enhancement: a new, experimental synchronous timeout facility is
     provided. Refer to SB-SYS:WITH-DEADLINE for details.
   * enhancement: when a symbol name conflict error arises, the
     conflicting symbols are always printed with a package prefix.
     (thanks to Kevin Reid)
+  * enhancement: stepping is now once again supported on the SPARC and
+    MIPS platforms.  (It is also now more likely to work on CheneyGC
+    builds on the PPC.)
+  * enhancement: sb-sprof can now also track and report accurate call
+    counts.
+  * bug fixes: the treatment of non-standard subclasses of
+    SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER is more correct.
   * incompatible change: PURIFY no longer copies the data from the 
     dynamic space into the static and read-only spaces on platforms
     that use the generational garbage collector
@@ -19,6 +69,11 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
     a STYLE-WARNING to be signalled (regression from 1.0.4.)
   * bug fix: an asynchronous interrupt could previously leave the
     system running with GC inhibited.
+  * bug fix: a DECLARE form evaluated at top-level now causes an error
+    rather than silently (or verbosely) returning NIL.
+  * bug fix: trying to dissassemble functions compiled at high DEBUG could
+    result in a error being signalled due to source form lookup errors.
+    (reported by Peter Graves)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4:
   * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name,