X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=4f2c7436aa04c99094ed7b0058d0accc71f9996c;hb=7c0e4f94bc39db82e08f1b918e18011ac1e20181;hp=289d8c3c19a6a1747e1da1bb696a826838a15339;hpb=a4cffc065c83d046fce193919bf6d4e53f181455;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 289d8c3..4f2c743 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,25 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9: + * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can + be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one + executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL + platforms. (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi) + * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its + contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic + links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly + in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME. + * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to + certain complicated string types. (reported by Gary King) + * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert + character codes. (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk and Ivan Boldyrev) + * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an + error if no structure type of the right name exists. (reported by + Glenn Ehrlich) + * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an + applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on + INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg + no longer cause unbound variable errors. (reported by Kevin Reid) + changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating system has been added. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) @@ -9,6 +30,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8: * bug fix: interrupt handling on NetBSD (thanks to Richard M Kreuter) * bug fix: saving a core corrupted callbacks on x86/x86-64 + * bug fix: closed a loophole in metacircularity detection and + grounding in the PCL implementation of CLOS. + * bug fix: TRUENAME on "/" no longer returns a relative pathname. + (reported by tomppa on #lisp) + * bug fix: clear the direction flag on Lisp -> C transitions, as + required by the x86-64 ABI. Fixes mysterious GC crashes on SuSE. + (reported by Andrej Grozin and Hendrik Maryns) * optimization: major improvements to GC efficiency on GENCGC platforms * optimization: faster implementation of EQUAL * optimization: emit more efficient opcodes for some common