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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.15 relative to sbcl-0.9.14:
+  * added support for the ucs-2 external format.  (contributed by Ivan
+    Boldyrev)
+  * minor incompatible change: pretty printing of objects of type
+    (cons symbol) is, in the default pprint-dispatch-table, now
+    sensitive to whether the symbol satisfies FBOUNDP.  (thanks to
+    Marcus Pearce)
+  * minor incompatible change: SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE is now
+    called later in a class's lifetime, possibly as late as when the
+    first instance of the class is created.  Previously,
+    SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE was called by the system as soon as a
+    class became finalizeable.
+  * fixed bug: FILE-POSITION sometimes returned inconsistent results
+    for multibyte external-format streams.  (thanks to "vbzoli")
+  * fixed bug: CHANGE-CLASS would fail to preserve the values of slots
+    with :ALLOCATION :CLASS inherited from superclasses of the
+    original class.
+  * fixed bug: anonymous classes can now be created using the :NAME
+    initarg and MAKE-INSTANCE / REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE, as specified by
+    AMOP.  (reported by Leonid Slobodov on comp.lang.lisp)
+  * fixed bug: core-files saved with :EXECUTABLE T can again be 
+    executed when SBCL_HOME isn't set. (reported by James Knight)
+  * fixed bug: toplevel LOCALLY forms with declarations could 
+    occasionally get miscompiled. (reported by Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
+  * fixed bug: printing from several different threads using different
+    values of *print-case* could cause invalid output, due to 
+    some internal special variables of the printer not being bound
+    thread-locally (reported by Max Mikhanosha)
+  * fixed bug: SPECIALIZER metaobjects (including anonymous classes
+    and EQL-SPECIALIZERs) can be used as specializers to DEFMETHOD.
+    (reported by Pascal Costanza)
+  * minor code generation optimizations:
+    ** better register allocation in CLOS dispatching functions
+    ** overflow detection when coercing signed bytes to fixnums on x86-64 
+    ** is now implemented with one IMUL instruction instead of three shifts
+    ** more efficient bit-vector access on x86 and x86-64
+    ** more efficient access to raw structure slots on x86 and x86-64
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST.8: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST must
+       return its argument.
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
   * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support
     on OS X/x86.
@@ -15,6 +56,15 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
   * minor incompatible change: the :SB-LDB feature is now enabled by
     default, and DISABLE-DEBUGGER and ENABLE-DEBUGGER also affect
     the low-level debugger.
+  * enchancement: RUN-PROGRAM is now able to extract the file-descriptor
+    from SYNONYM-STREAM and TWO-WAY-STEAMS provided they can be decomposed
+    down to an SB-SYS:FD-STREAM, allowing direct communication in
+    more cases. Temporary files and pipes are still used as a fallback
+    strategy.
+  * thread-safety: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME & GET-DECODED-TIME depended
+    on the non-reentrant C functions localtime(3) and gmtime(3).
+  * bug fix: global optimization policy was not visible in LOCALLY and 
+    MACROLET forms.
   * bug fix: class objects can be used as specializers in methods.
     (reported by Pascal Costanza)
   * bug fix: native unparsing of pathnames with :DIRECTORY NIL failed
@@ -24,21 +74,24 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13:
   * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY
     starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK.
     (reported by James Y Knight)
-  * improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support on Windows. (thanks to Timothy
-    Ritchey)
   * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works
   * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a 
     constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array
   * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an
     error (patch by Robert J. Macomber)
   * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC
-  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
-    ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
-       compilation stages.
   * bug fix: The debugger now does a better job of respecting 
     (PUSH '(*PRINT-CIRCLE* . T) SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*)
     when printing SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-CONDITION*. (This is a debugger-only
     workaround for bug 403.) 
+  * bug fix: floating point exception handling now works on FreeBSD
+    (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late
+       compilation stages.
+  * improvements to the Win32/x86 port:
+    ** GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME implemented, thanks to Frank Buss.
+    ** improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support, thanks to Timothy Ritchey.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12:
   * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion