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@@ -1102,6 +1102,72 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
     default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
     Martin Atzmueller)
 
+changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
+  * bug 147 fixed: The compiler preserves its block link/count
+    invariants more correctly now so that it doesn't crash. (thanks
+    to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
+    to Pierre Mai)
+  * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
+  * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
+    no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
+  * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
+    valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
+    (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
+  * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
+    Dan Barlow)
+  * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
+    to Christophe Rhodes)
+  * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
+    on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
+    in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.
+  * minor incompatible change: The ASCII RUBOUT character, (CHAR-CODE 127),
+    is no longer treated as whitespace by the reader, but instead as
+    an ordinary character. Thus e.g. (READ-FROM-STRING "AB") returns
+    |AB|, instead of A as it used to.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.5 relative to sbcl-0.7.4:
+  * SBCL now builds with OpenMCL (version 0.12) as the
+    cross-compilation host; also, more progress has been made toward
+    bootstrapping under CLISP.
+  * SBCL now runs on the Tru64 (aka OSF/1) operating system on the
+    Alpha architecture.
+  * bug 158 fixed: The compiler can now deal with integer loop
+    increments different from 1; fixing this turned out also to fix
+    bug 164.
+  * bug 169 fixed: no more bogus warnings about using lexical bindings
+    despite the presence of perfectly good SPECIAL declarations (thanks
+    to David Lichteblau)
+  * bug 175 fixed: CHANGE-CLASS is now more ANSI-conforming,
+    accepting initargs. (thanks to Espen Johnsen and Pierre Mai)
+  * bug 179 fixed: DIRECTORY can now deal with filenames with pattern
+    characters in them.
+  * bug 180 fixed: Method combination specifications no longer ignore
+    the :MOST-SPECIFIC-LAST option. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
+  * bug fix: Structure type predicate functions now check their argument
+    count as they should.
+  * bug fix: Classes with :METACLASS STRUCTURE-CLASS now print
+    correctly. (thanks to Pierre Mai)
+  * minor incompatible change: The --noprogrammer option is deprecated
+    in favor of the new --disable-debugger option, which is very similar.
+    (The major difference is that it takes effect at a slightly different
+    time at startup, causing handling of errors in --sysinit and
+    --userinit files will be affected differently.) The
+    SB-EXT:DISABLE-DEBUGGER and SB-EXT:ENABLE-DEBUGGER functions have
+    been added to allow this functionality to be controlled from ordinary
+    Lisp code. (ENABLE-DEBUGGER should help people like the Debian
+    maintainers, who might want to run non-interactive scripts to
+    build SBCL cores which will later be used interactively.)
+  * minor incompatible change: The LOAD function no longer, when given
+    a wild pathname to load, loads all files matching that pathname.
+    Instead, an error of type FILE-ERROR is signalled.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.6 relative to sbcl-0.7.5:
+  * bug fix: LOAD :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST NIL now works when file type is
+    specified. (This was at the root of some bad interactions between
+    SBCL and ILISP: thanks to Gregory Wright for diagnosing this and
+    reporting the bug.)
+
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe
   later, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and