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+changes in sbcl-0.9.2 relative to sbcl-0.9.1:
+  * numerous signal handling fixes to increase stability
+  * bug fix: interrupt-thread restores the eflags register on x86
+  * minor incompatible change: we now correctly canonize default
+    initargs, making them be a list of (INITARG INITFORM INITFUNCTION)
+    as per the MOP, rather than the historical (INITARG INITFUNCTION
+    INITFORM).  (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * new feature: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT now accepts a non-standard
+    :SOURCE-PLIST option. See (DOCUMENTATION #'WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT T)
+    for more information.
+  * TRUENAME and PROBE-FILE now correctly resolve symlinks even if the
+    pathname is a directory pathname.
+  * SB-SPROF now works (more) reliably on non-GENCGC platforms.
+  * fixed some lockups due to gc/thread interaction
+  * dynamic space size on PPC has been increased to 768Mb. (thanks to
+    Cyrus Harmon)
+  * SB-MOP:ENSURE-CLASS-USING-CLASS now accepts a class as the
+    :METACLASS argument in addition to a class name. (reported by
+    Bruno Haible for CMUCL, patch for CMUCL by Gerd Moellman)
+  * bug fix: sbcl runtime can now be compiled with gcc4 (thanks to 
+    Sascha Wilde)
+  * bug fix: more cleanups to the floating point exception handling on
+    x86-64 (thanks to James Knight)
+  * optimization: improved the MIPS versions of generic (in the
+    generic sense) arithmetic routines.  (thanks to Thiemo Seufer)
+  * optimization: direct conversion of (unsigned-byte 32) to floats on
+    the PowerPC platform.
+  * contrib improvement: it's harder to cause SOCKET-CLOSE to close()
+    the wrong file descriptor; implementation of SOCKET-OPEN-P.
+    (thanks to Tony Martinez)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** invalid dotted lists no longer raise a read error when 
+       *READ-SUPPRESS* is T
+    ** signal an error if a symbol that names a declaration is used
+       as the name of a type, or vice versa
+    ** allow using the (declare (typespec var*)) abbreviation for 
+       (declare (type typespec var*)) with all type specifiers
+    ** circularity detection works properly with PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK
+    ** always return NIL from PPRINT-POP when OBJECT is NIL
+    ** don't signal errors when pretty-printing malformed LABELS, 
+       FLET or MACROLET forms
+    ** declarations in a DOLIST body are also in scope for the 
+       DOLIST return-form
+    ** COMPILE-FILE accepts all pathname designators as INPUT-FILE
+       and OUTPUT-FILE
+    ** the ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument to WITH-OUTPUT-STREAM is 
+       always evaluated
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.1 relative to sbcl-0.9.0:
   * fixed cross-compiler leakages that prevented building a 32-bit
     target with a 64-bit host compiler.
+  * fixed a bug in CLOSE :ABORT T: no longer attempts to remove files
+    opened with :IF-EXISTS :OVERWRITE.
+  * fixed bug 281: error for an invalid qualifier in a short-form method
+    combination method is not signalled until the faulty method is called.
+  * bug fix: iteration variable type inferrer failed to deal with open
+    intervals. (reported by Alan Shields)
+  * bug fix: dynamically loading (via LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT or similar)
+    "frameworks" on Mac OS X no longer causes an EXC_BAD_ACCESS if two
+    or more runtime options were provided to the sbcl binary.
+  * compiled code is not steppable if COMPILATION-SPEED >= DEBUG.
   * contrib improvement: implement SB-POSIX:MKSTEMP (Yannick Gingras)
+  * optimization: there's now a fast-path for fixnum arguments in the
+    generic subtraction routines on x86/x86-64. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * optimization: the code generated on x86-64 is more compact thanks
+    to not outputting unneccessary prefix bytes. (Thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * bug fix: floating-point exception handling now partly works on
+    x86-64.  (Thanks to James Knight)
+  * improvement to the MIPS backend from Thiemo Seufer: C-style
+    64-bit long long arguments and return values to alien functions
+    are now supported.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** the type-error signalled from WARN has a filled-in DATUM slot.
+    ** the type-error required when a stream is not associated with
+       a file has the stream as its datum.
+    ** type-errors on single-floats on x86-64 no longer have 
+       :INVALID-OBJECT as the datum
+    ** the type-errors signalled for invalid function names now have
+       a correct expected type
+    ** (SETF (DOCUMENTATION ... 'STRUCTURE)) no longer signals an error
+       for structures defined with a :TYPE. Documentation strings for
+       typed structures are no longer immediately discarded
+    ** FILE-STRING-LENGTH and STREAM-EXTERNAL-FORMAT now work on 
+       broadcast streams and synonym streams. FILE-LENGTH now also works
+       on broadcast streams.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.0 relative to sbcl-0.8.21:
   * incompatible change: the --noprogrammer option, deprecated since