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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*-
 changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
+  * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of
+    ROOM, plus a few SB-INTROSPECT functions) has been completely
+    rewritten, it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
   * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
     the working directory of the spawned process.
     (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
-  * enhancement: vectors can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
+  * enhancement: boxed vectors (vectors of T or of FIXNUM) can now be
+    stack-allocated on PPC.
   * enhancement: "fixed objects" can now be stack-allocated on PPC.
   * enhancement: WITH-PINNED-OBJECTS no longer conses on PPC/GENCGC.
+  * enhancement: (sb-introspect:find-definition-sources-by-name x :vop) now
+    also returns VOPs which do not translate any functions, and finds
+    defoptimizer types ir2convert and stack-allocate-result.
+  * enhancement: better type derivation for APPEND, NCONC, LIST.
+    (lp#538957)
+  * enhancement: MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of ROOM) now walks the
+    heap in a manner similar to the GC rather than its previous ad-hoc
+    scheme, and is therefore no less and possibly more accurate.
   * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
     of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
     (lp#1096444)
@@ -14,8 +26,37 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
     decoding errors, or directories being deleted.
   * bug fix: Loading a core with a discontiguous dynamic space now correctly
     computes the amount of dynamic space used.
+  * bug fix: disassembler missing ",8" on SHLD
+  * bug fix: backtracing through INTERNAL-ERROR signal handlers on systems
+    that provide an "invalid" stack frame link for the signal handler
+    itself now use the saved-fp-and-pc mechanism to pick up from the stack
+    frame in the interrupt (signal) context.  This is known to affect
+    threaded FreeBSD/x86-64.
+  * bug fix: some LOOP statements couldn't be compiled.
+    (lp#1178989)
+  * bug fix: sb-sequence:dosequence works on literal vectors.
+  * bug fix: errors in generic arithmetic show the assembly routine's
+    caller on x86 and x86-64. (lp#800343)
+  * bug fix: Compile-time type errors should never result in COMPILE-FILE
+    failure. (lp#943953)
+  * bug fix: Known bad local calls do not cause strange failures when
+    emitting or dumping code. (lp#504121)
+  * bug fix: Multiply-inlined structure constructor don't cause IR2-time
+    codegen errors: type checks are inserted as necessary. (lp#1177703)
+  * bug fix: Unsigned modular arithmetic is correctly converted into signed
+    modular arithemtic (mostly to exploit fixnum-width VOPs). (lp#1026634)
   * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
   * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
+  * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used
+    for code alignment is now always minimal.
+  * optimization: On 64-bit targets, the compiler generates much faster
+    code for type checks for types known at compile time that are smaller
+    than (SIGNED-BYTE 64) or (UNSIGNED-BYTE 64) and larger than FIXNUM, and
+    their COMPLEX variants.
+  * optimization: On x86 targets, more uses of ALIEN-FUNCALL during cross
+    compilation now inline the INVOKE-WITH-SAVED-FP-AND-PC dance.
+  * optimization: ROOM no longer conses so egregiously on non-x86oid
+    systems.
 
 changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
   * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.