X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=29bfc324adbdd280ba75828cb027abb136cc44f1;hb=48a34b34d5e82b78f51c32bf8be1dba76d3c4490;hp=f9085fb8e024d10b90b46857b933f5ce78e6daa1;hpb=41c307979e17a33e8700c1ca92ed8b3400a301b3;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f9085fb..29bfc32 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,49 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57: +changes relative to sbcl-1.1.0: + * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock. + (COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE still do.) + * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of + symbol-macros by lexical bindings. + * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in + several cases. + * bug fix: SB-EXT:GC-LOGFILE signaled an error when no logfile was set. + (thanks to SANO Masatoshi) + * bug fix: PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING performed non-native parsing when + :JUNK-ALLOWED was true. + +changes in sbcl-1.1.0 relative to sbcl-1.0.58: + * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling + source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T. + * enhancement: TIMEOUT arguments added to WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK, and + WAIT-P argument added to WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-PUSH and SB-EXT:ATOMIC-POP allow atomic operations + on list heads. + * enhancement: Optional features (not enabled by default) allow the + use of signals for inter-thread synchronization to be reduced on certain + supported platforms (currently Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on x86 and + x86-64). Set (and :sb-thread :sb-safepoint :sb-thruption :sb-wtimer) + to test these experimental features. Known remaining bugs include minor + thread safety issues, less timely freeing of memory by GC, and certain + (not yet optimally low) runtime overhead. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. + * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer + comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs. + * bug fix: Reading floats with large exponents no longer takes too much time + before reporting that the exponent is too large. + * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-RECEIVE with a UDP socket now works + correctly when the received datagram is larger than the provided buffer. + (lp#1023438, thanks to Robert Uhl) + * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION returned a bogus read-form when given + a SYMBOL-VALUE form with a constant symbol argument. + * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION signaled an error when a macro expanding + into a DEFCAS defined place was used as the place. + * bug fix: FIND and POSITION signaled a type-error when non-bits where looked + for from bit-vectors. + * bug fix: a race condition around thread creation could (in SBCL 1.0.57) + lead to internal errors or crashes (lp#1058799). + * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the + manual. (lp#656839) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57: * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package in which the new generic function is being created. * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive @@ -12,11 +56,11 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57: * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP. * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is - of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (thanks to James - M. Lawrence) + of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043, + thanks to James M. Lawrence) * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit - function cannot escape. + function cannot escape. (lp#1002534) * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs. * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution @@ -46,6 +90,10 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.57: * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since 1.0.56.19) + * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's + controling terminal. + * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process + (lp#1012811). changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56: * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes: