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@@ -1004,6 +1004,49 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.1 relative to sbcl-0.7.0:
   needed now that the byte interpreter is gone) caused the fasl
   file format number to change again.
 
+changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
+  * incompatible change: The compiler is now less aggressive about
+    tail call optimization, doing it only when (> SPACE DEBUG) or
+    (> SPEED DEBUG). (This is an incompatible change because there are
+    programs which relied on the old CMU-CL-style behavior to optimize
+    away their unbounded recursion which will now die of stack overflow.)
+  * minor incompatible change: The default BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS
+    for non-GENCGC systems has been increased to 20M (since that
+    seems much closer to the likely performance optimum for modern
+    systems than the old 4M value was)
+  * SBCL runs on SPARC systems now. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes' port
+    of CMU CL's support for SPARC, and various endianness and other 
+    SBCL portability fixes due to Christophe Rhodes and Dan Barlow)
+  * new syntactic sugar for the Unix command line: --load foo.bar is now
+    an alternate notation for --eval '(load "foo.bar")'.
+  * bug fixes:
+    ?? The system now detects stack overflow and handles it gracefully,
+       at least for (OR (> SAFETY (MAX SPEED SPACE)) (= SAFETY 3))
+       optimization settings. (This is a good thing in general, and
+       its introduction in this version should be particularly timely
+       for anyone whose code fails because of suppression of tail
+       recursion!)
+    ** The system now hunts for the C variable "environ" in a more
+       devious way, to avoid segfaults when the C library version differs
+       between compile time and run time. (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
+    ** INTEGER-valued CATCH tags now work. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka,
+       and also to Christophe Rhodes for porting the fix to non-X86 CPUs)
+    ** The compiler no longer issues bogus style warnings for undefined
+       classes in the same source file as the DEFCLASSes which defined
+       them. (thanks to Stig E Sandoe for reporting and Martin Atzmueller
+       for fixing this)
+  * several changes related to debugging:
+    ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
+    ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
+    ** The default implementation of TRACE has changed. :ENCAPSULATE T
+       is now the default. (For some time encapsulation has been more
+       reliable than the breakpoint-based :ENCAPSULATE NIL
+       implementation, at least on X86 systems; and I just noticed that
+       encapsulation also seems closer to the spirit of the ANSI
+       specification.)
+    ?? TRACE :ENCAPSULATE T now attaches a more informative debug
+       name to its wrapper function objects than it used to
+
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe
   later, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and