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@@ -2234,11 +2234,72 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
     ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
+  * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
+    (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
+    namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field.  This is
+    intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
+    meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
+    pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">.  This namestring
+    should usually be replaced by 
+      (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
+    with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
+    As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
+    option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
+    exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
   * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
     second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
     (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+  * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
+    type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
+    PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
+    stream.  (reported by Peter Graves)
+  * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
+    behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
+    exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
+    recursive manner.
+  * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
+    recognized as being TYPEP their class.
   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
+  * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
+    (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
+    teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
+  * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
+    not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
+       non-local entry points.
+    ** pathwise CAST removing failed when the CAST node did not start
+       a block.
+    ** INPUT-STREAM-P, OUTPUT-STREAM-P, STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and
+       OPEN-STREAM-P signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a
+       stream.
+    ** LOAD-LOGICAL-PATHNAME-TRANSLATIONS returns NIL if the logical
+       host is already defined.
+    ** RENAME-FILE works on streams instead of signalling an internal
+       type error.
+    ** PEEK-CHAR uses the current readtable when determining whether
+       or not a character is whitespace.
+    ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
+       specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
+    ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
+       consistency.
+    ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
+       pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
+       FILE-ERROR.
+    ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
+       files.
+    ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
+    ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
+       signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
+    ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
+       designator argument does not designate a stream.
+    ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
+       examining the synonym.
+    ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
+       work as specified.
+    ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
+       element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles