X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6728d457cd578c572edcb78d2c6ae667d4815671;hb=d63d80e637e9058ff5db7a10c267796ff7970ba1;hp=a9379b97c5f2baaca88a723a8cfbae7ff6c50bd4;hpb=c3ca13d2e1e75cc43399f8d290e5f8e6b8cdc08c;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a9379b9..6728d45 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,63 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.27 relative to 1.0.26: + * new port: support added for x86-64 OpenBSD. (thanks to Josh Elsasser) + * bug fix: a type error is signaled for attempts to use the LOOP + keyword ACROSS for a NIL value. (thanks to Daniel Lowe) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.26 relative to 1.0.25: + * incompatible change: an interruption (be it a function passed to + INTERRUPT-THREAD or a timer function) runs in an environment where + interrupts can be enabled. The interruption can use + WITH-INTERRUPTS or WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS as it sees fit. Use + WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS to avoid nesting of interruptions and + potentially running out of stack. Keep in mind that in the absence + of WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS some potentially blocking operation such as + acquiring a lock can enable interrupts. + * incompatible change: GC-OFF and GC-ON are removed, as they were + always unsafe. Use WITHOUT-GCING instead. + * new feature: runtime option --disable-ldb + * new feature: runtime option --lose-on-corruption to die at the + slightest hint of possibly non-recoverable errors: running out of + memory, stack, alien stack, binding stack, encountering a memory + fault, etc. In the absence of --lose-on-corruption a warning is + printed to stderr. + * enhancement: detect binding stack exhaustion + * enhancement: detect alien stack exhaustion on x86/x86-64 + * improvement: generally more stable and reliable interrupt handling + * improvement: there is a per thread interruption queue, + interruptions are executed in order of arrival + * improvement: a repeating timer reschedules itself when the it has + finished, but expiration times are spaced equally. If an + expiration time is in the past it will trigger after a short grace + period that may give a chance to other things to run. + * optimization: slightly faster gc on multithreaded builds + * optimization: faster WITHOUT-GCING + * bug fix: when JOIN-THREAD signals an error, do it when not holding + important locks so that the debugger/handler doesn't produce + recursive errors or deadlock. + * bug fix: real-time signals are not used anymore, so no more + hanging when the system wide real-time signal queue gets full. + * bug fix: INTERRUPT-THREAD on a dying thread could produce memory + fault. + * bug fix: finalizers, gc hooks never run in a WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS + * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on alpha + * bug fix: fix random memory faults related to interrupts on sparc + * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to starting threads + * bug fix: fix deadlines on locks on futex platforms + * bug fix: restore errno in signal handlers + * bug fix: fix deadlocks related to hash tables + * bug fix: fix deadlocks in pcl + changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24: * incompatible change: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST is deprecated, to be removed later. Please use SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-LAMBDA-LIST instead. * new feature: SB-INTROSPECT:DEFTYPE-LAMBDA-LIST allows retrieval of DEFTYPE lambda lists. (thanks to Tobias Rittweiler) + * enhancement: MUTEX-VALUE is to be superseded by MUTEX-OWNER that has a + better name and does not return values so stale on multiprocessor systems. + Also, HOLDING-MUTEX-P was added for about the only sane usage of + MUTEX-OWNER. + * improvement: unithread builds keep track of MUTEX-VALUE. * improvement: reading from a TWO-WAY-STREAM does not touch the output stream anymore making it thread safe to have a concurrent reader and a writer, for instance, in a pipe. @@ -17,6 +71,19 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.25 relative to 1.0.24: by Tobias Rittweiler, patch by Paul Khuong) * bug fix: setting alien structure fields of type struct by value now computes the right offset for the memory copy. + * bug fix: compilation problem involving inlined calls to aliens with + result type VOID. (reported by Ken Olum) + * bug fix: #235a; sequential inline expasion in different policies no + longer reuses the functional from the previous expansion site. + * bug fix: DEFTYPE no longer breaks on bodies consisting of a single + unquoted symbol. Regression from 1.0.22.8. (reported by Ariel Badichi) + * bug fix: named ENUMs in multiply-referenced alien record types no longer + cause an implied type redefinition. Regression from 1.0.21.29. + * bug fix: sign-extension of small signed return values now works with C + code compiled with gcc 4.3 or newer. (reported by Liam Healy) + * improvements to the Windows port: + ** SB-BSD-SOCKETS now works from saved cores as well. (reported by Stephen + Westfold, thanks to Rudi Schlatte) changes in sbcl-1.0.24 relative to 1.0.23: * new feature: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR provides access to the underlying data @@ -250,7 +317,7 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.19 relative to 1.0.18: type is not know sufficiently well a compile-time are now compiled correctly. (reported by John Morrison) * bug fix: compiler no longer makes erronous assumptions in the - presense of non-foldable SATISFIES types. + presence of non-foldable SATISFIES types. * bug fix: stack analysis missed cleanups of dynamic-extent arguments in non-let-converted calls to local functions. * improvements to the Windows port: