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@@ -1,6 +1,27 @@
 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*-
+  * bug fix: on 64 bit platforms FILL worked incorrectly on arrays with
+    upgraded element type (COMPLEX SINGLE-FLOAT), regression from 1.0.28.55.
+    (thanks to Paul Khuong)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.29 relative to 1.0.28:
+  * IMPORTANT: bug database has moved from the BUGS file to Launchpad
+        https://bugs.launchpad.net/sbcl
+    Bugs can be reported directly there, or by sending email to
+        sbcl-bugs@lists.sourceforge.net
+    (no subscription required.)
+  * minor incompatible change: under weak type checking policy integer
+    types are weakened less aggressively.
+  * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
+    allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
+    if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
+    was accidentally reused as the exit status.
+  * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFINE-HASH-TABLE-TEST allows defining new arguments
+    to MAKE-HASH-TABLE :TEST, and MAKE-HASH-TABLE has been extended with
+    :HASH-FUNCTION argument. Refer to user manual for details.
   * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
     variables.
+  * new feature: SB-EXT:GET-TIME-OF-DAY provides access to seconds and
+    microseconds since the Unix epoch on all platforms.
   * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
     allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
     variables.
@@ -8,15 +29,48 @@
     the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
     efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
     expressing intent.
-  * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
-    requested but could not be provided.
+  * new feature: UNC pathnames are now understood by the system on Windows.
+  * optimization: the compiler uses a specialized version of FILL when the
+    element type is know in more cases, making eg. (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8) case
+    almost 90% faster.
+  * optimization: accesses to potentially non-simple arrays where element type
+    is known are 50% faster.
   * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
   * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
     non-simple arrays.
   * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
     information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
     open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
+  * optimization: result of (FILL (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) and (REPLACE
+    (MAKE-ARRAY ...) ...) can be stack allocated if the result of MAKE-ARRAY
+    form can be.
+  * optimization: result of call to VECTOR can now be stack allocated.
+  * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY with :INITIAL-CONTENTS is now vastly faster
+    as long as the resulting array is one-dimensional and has a known
+    element type. In particular, :INITIAL-CONTENTS (LIST ...) where the
+    length of the list matches the known length of the vector does not
+    allocate the list as an intermediate step. Ditto for VECTOR and simple
+    backquoted forms.
+  * optimization: MAKE-ARRAY can now stack allocate in the presence of
+    :INITIAL-CONTENTS and :INITIAL-ELEMENT as long as the result has a
+    known element type, and is known to be simple and one dimensional.
+  * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
+    requested but could not be provided (not in all cases, unfortunately)
+  * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
+  * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
+    to Tobias Rittweiler)
   * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
+  * bug fix: FILE-AUTHOR no longer signals an error on Windows.
+  * bug fix: SB-SPROF could be foiled by foreign code not have a frame
+    pointer, leading to memory faults. (thanks to Bart Botta)
+  * bug fix: better floating point exception handling on x86/OpenBSD.
+    (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
+  * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
+    (reported by Hubert Kauker)
+  * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
+    same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
+    efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
+    Paul Khuong)
   * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
     x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
   * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
@@ -40,6 +94,8 @@
   * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
     directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
     thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
+  * bug fix: SHARED-INITIALIZE initialized unbound :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots
+    from :INITFORM, if any.
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
   * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate