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@@ -899,6 +899,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
   ** bug in the optimization of ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE
   ** argument ordering in FIND with :TEST option
   ** mishandled package designator argument in APROPOS-LIST
+  ** various problems in the backquote readmacro
   He also pointed out some bogus old entries in BUGS, and fixed 
   a number of bugs which came into existence in the pre7 branch
   (internal to the CVS repository), so that they never showed
@@ -925,6 +926,12 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
   DEFINE-CONDITION, DEFINE-MODIFY-MACRO..). This mostly affects
   internal symbols, but a few supported extensions like
   SB-ALIEN:DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION are also affected.
+* minor incompatible change (part of a bug fix by Christophe Rhodes
+  to DIRECTORY behavior): DIRECTORY no longer implicitly promotes
+  NIL slots of its pathname argument to :WILD, and in particular
+  asking for the contents of a directory, which you used to be able
+  to do without explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/"), 
+  now needs explicit wildcards, e.g. (DIRECTORY "/tmp/*.*").
 * minor incompatible change: DEFINE-ALIEN-FUNCTION (also known by 
   the old deprecated name DEF-ALIEN-FUNCTION) now does DECLAIM FTYPE
   for the defined function, since declaiming return types involving