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@@ -1106,6 +1106,146 @@ 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: Floating point exceptions are treated much more
+    consistently on the x86/Linux and PPC/Linux platforms.
+  * Array initialization with :INITIAL-ELEMENT is now much faster for
+    cases when the compiler cannot open code the array creation, but
+    does know what the UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE will be. General
+    array accesses have also seen a speed increase.
+  * 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.)
+  * bug fix: Internal error arguments for undefined functions are now
+    computed correctly on the PPC/Linux platform.
+  * bug fix: Bad &REST syntax is now checked correctly. (thanks to 
+    Raymond Toy's patch for CMU CL)
+  * Support for the Solaris 9 operating environment has been included
+    (thanks to Daniel Merritt)
+  * A very ugly but hopefully complete draft of the missing FFI chapter
+    of the manual has been created by reformatting the corresponding
+    CMU CL manual chapter into (currently very ugly and incoherent)
+    DocBook and bringing it up to date for SBCL behavior. Thus, the
+    manual is now essentially complete, at least by my extreme
+    once-and-only-once standards, whereby it's acceptable to refer to
+    the doc strings of SB-EXT functions as the primary documentation.
+  * The fasl file version number has changed again, due to cleanup of
+    (user-invisible) bitrotted stuff. (E.g. *!INITIAL-FDEFN-OBJECTS*
+    is no longer a static symbol.)
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.7 relative to sbcl-0.7.6:
+  * An alpha-quality port to the parisc architecture running Linux,
+    based on the old CMUCL backend has been made.  This, even more so
+    than the other backends, should be considered still a work in
+    progress; known problems include that the Linux kernel in 64-bit
+    mode does not propagate the correct sigcontext structure to
+    userspace, and consequently SBCL on a parisc64 kernel will not
+    work yet.
+  * fixed bug 189: The compiler now respects NOTINLINE declarations for
+    functions declared in FLET and LABELS. (I.e. "LET conversion" is
+    suppressed.) Also now that the compiler is looking at declarations
+    in the environment, it checks optimization declarations as well,
+    and suppresses inlining when (> DEBUG SPEED).
+  * More fixes have been made to treatment of floating point exception
+    treatment and other Unix signals.  In particular, floating point
+    exceptions no longer cause Bus errors on the SPARC/Linux platform.
+  * The detection and handling of control stack exhaustion (infinite
+    or very deeply nested recursion) has changed.  Stack exhaustion
+    detection is now done by write-protecting pages at the OS level
+    and applies at all optimization settings; when found, a
+    SB-KERNEL:CONTROL-STACK-EXHAUSTED condition (subclass of
+    STORAGE-CONDITION) is signalled, so stack exhaustion can no longer
+    be caught using IGNORE-ERRORS.
+  * Bug 48a./b. fixed: SYMBOL-MACROLET now refuses to bind symbols
+    that are names of constants or global variables.
+  * Bug fix: DEFINE-ALIEN-ROUTINE now declaims the correct FTYPE for
+    alien routines with docstrings.
+  * Bug 184 fixed: Division of ratios by the integer 0 now signals an
+    error of type DIVISION-BY-ZERO. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss and
+    Raymond Toy)
+  * Bug fix: Errors in PARSE-INTEGER are now of type PARSE-ERROR.
+    (thanks to Eric Marsden)
+  * Bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of rationals now returns an
+    object of type (COMPLEX FLOAT). (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
+  * Bug fix: The SPARC backend can now compile functions involving
+    LOGAND and stack-allocated arguments. (thanks to Raymond Toy)
+  * Bug fix: We no longer segfault on passing a non-FILE-STREAM stream
+    to a functions expecting a PATHNAME-DESIGNATOR.
+  * Bug fix: DEFGENERIC now enforces the ANSI restrictions on its
+    lambda lists. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Bug fix: changed encoding of PCL's internal MAKE-INSTANCE
+    functions so that EXPORTing the name of the class doesn't cause
+    MAKE-INSTANCE functions from earlier DEFCLASSes to get lost (thanks
+    to Antonio Martinez for reporting this)
+  * Bug 192 fixed: The internal primitive DATA-VECTOR-REF can now be
+    constant-folded without failing an assertion. (thanks to Einar
+    Floystad Dorum for reporting this)
+  * Bugs 123 and 165 fixed: array specializations on as-yet-undefined
+    types are now dealt with more correctly by the compiler.
+  * Minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME now merges its
+    OUTPUT-FILE argument with its INPUT-FILE argument, resulting in
+    behaviour analogous to RENAME-FILE.  This puts its behaviour more
+    in line with ANSI's wording on COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME. (thanks to
+    Marco Antinotti)
+  * The fasl file version number has changed again. (because of the
+    bug fix involving the names of PCL MAKE-INSTANCE functions)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe