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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
+  * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
+    system has been added.  (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
+  * fixed several bugs in and robustified the PPC FFI (including
+    callbacks).  (thanks to Cyrus Harmon and Heiner Schwarte)
+  * bug fix: allow non-simple string symbol names (reported by Paul
+    Dietz)
+  * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M
+    Kreuter)
+  * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64
+  * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms
+  * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL
+  * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common 
+    immediate->register MOV instructions on x86-64.  (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * optimization: several other minor code-generation improvements on x86-64
+  * fixed segfaults on x86 FreeBSD 7-current.  (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
+
+changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
+  * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
+    GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are generic functions once more (reverting
+    the change in the 0.9.7 release).  (SETF CLASS-NAME) is specified
+    by ANSI as a generic function, and for consistency (SETF
+    GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) is treated likewise.
+  * fixed bug #233.b: make constraint propagation notice when a variable
+    value is changed after it is referenced but before it is used
+  * fixed bug #296: no more arbitrary behaviour from filenames with
+    odd characters as --load arguments.  (reported by Adam Warner)
+  * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
+    expected.  (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
+  * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
+    definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
+  * fixed bug #392: plugged a hole in the obsolete-instance protocol.
+  * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
+    returning the number of octets which would be written to the
+    file-stream.  (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
+  * bug fix: the SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS contrib passes external-format
+    arguments to the internal stream functions.  (thanks to David
+    Lichteblau)
+  * bug fix: stack exhaustion is now handled on the x86/SunOS
+    platform.  (thanks to Daisuke Homma)
+  * bug fix: more accurate ROOM results on GENCGC platforms
+  * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
+    index variables in LOOP
+  * optimization: faster floating-point SQRT on x86-64
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
+       that don't have a docstring
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
   * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
     GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
@@ -42,6 +90,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
     on gencgc
   * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64 
     (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
+    floating point index variable or a negative step.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
   * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on