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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
+  * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
+    Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
+    (thanks to Svein Ove Aas)
+  * bug fix: Unicode symbols are correctly printed in LDB backtraces
+    (thanks to David Lichteblau)
+  * bug fix: local bindings shadow global symbol macros for
+    macroexpansion.  (reported by Matthew D Swank on comp.lang.lisp)
+  * optimization: non-open coded uses of numeric comparison operators
+    (e.g. >) no longer cons when called with more than one parameter
+    on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
+  * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
+    on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
+  * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
+  * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
+  * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
+    (thanks to Alexander Kjeldaas)    
+  * new feature: ignoring the return values of destructive functions
+    like NREVERSE signals a compile-time style-warning.
+    (thanks to Kevin Reid)
+  * new feature: the alignment of alien structure fields can be 
+    explicitly specified. (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
+  * threads
+    ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
+       next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
+    ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
+    ** WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK can be nested in a WITH-MUTEX for the same lock
+    ** bug fix: dynamic variable and thread start related gc lossage
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** SUBTYPEP is slightly more accurate on heinously complicated
+       CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
+       NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
   * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package
   * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u,
@@ -28,17 +61,29 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4:
     funcallable-instances.  (reported by Cyrus Harmon)
   * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now
     consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects.
-  * bug fix: SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
-    STANDARD-OBJECT, as required by AMOP.
-  * bug fix: the classes STANDARD-CLASS and
-    SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are now compatible in the
-    SB-MOP:VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS sense; there remains a constraint about
-    finalized classes and the FUNCTION class.
-  * bug fix: the SB-MOP:METAOBJECT class is now implemented as
-    specified by AMOP.
   * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical
     environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported
-    by vrotaru)
+    by Vasile Rotaru)
+  * bug fix: compiler pack phase does not modify a hashtable, which is
+    iterated. (reported by Bryan O'Connor, fixed by Rob MacLachlan)
+  * bug fix: backquote does not optimize (LIST* x y) to CONS when x
+    may be expanded. (reported by Alexander <malishev> on c.l.l)
+  * bug fix: no more style-warnings when compiling code using LAST
+    under high-SPEED low-SPACE settings.  (reported by David Wallin
+    aka froog on #lisp)
+  * fixed some incompatibilities between SBCL's MOP and the MOP
+    specified by AMOP:
+    ** the METAOBJECT class is now implemented;
+    ** FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of
+       STANDARD-OBJECT, as required;
+    ** the classes STANDARD-CLASS and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are
+       now compatible (as required by VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS); there
+       remains a consistency requirement over the presence or absence
+       of the FUNCTION class in the superclass list of finalized
+       classes; see the manual for more details;
+    ** the :AROUND method for COMPUTE-SLOTS on
+       FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS now honours the primary method's
+       requested slot ordering.
   * threads
     ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live
        child thread