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@@ -1709,26 +1709,88 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8alpha.0 relative to sbcl-0.7.14
     ** :ALLOW-OTHER-KEYS NIL is now accepted in an initarg list.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.0 relative to sbcl-0.8alpha.0
-  * minor incompatible change: the :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
+  * SBCL now builds using CLISP (version of late April 2003 from CVS) as
+    cross-compilation host. As a consequence, we can now bootstrap our
+    way up to SBCL starting with a bare gcc toolchain and human-readable
+    source code (first the source to CLISP, then the source to SBCL).
+  * A contributed module containing a partial implementation of the
+    simple-streams interface has been included.  (thanks to Rudi
+    Schlatte)
+  * A contributed module implementing the RFC1321 Message Digest
+    Algorithm, known as MD5, has been included.
+  * minor incompatible change: The :NEGATIVE-ZERO-IS-NOT-ZERO feature
     no longer has any effect, as the code controlled by this feature
     has been deleted.  (As far as we know, no-one has ever built using
     this feature, and its semantics were confused in any case).
-  * SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
-    SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
-    specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
+  * minor incompatible change: As a consequence of making SLOT-EXISTS-P
+    work on conditions (as required by the ANSI specification),
+    SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and SLOT-BOUNDP likewise have the
+    expected behaviour on conditions.  Users should note, however,
+    that such behaviour is not required by the ANSI specification,
+    and so use of this behaviour may render their code unportable.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** the GENERIC-FUNCTION type is no longer disjoint from FUNCTION
        types.
+    ** &ENVIRONMENT parameter in macro lambda list is bound first.
+    ** SXHASH on condition objects no longer returns NIL.
+    ** :ALLOCATION :CLASS slots are better treated; their values are
+       updated on class redefinition, and initforms inherited from
+       superclasses are applied.
+    ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
+       no method was removed.
+    ** SHARED-INITIALIZE now initializes the values of the requested
+       slots, including those with :ALLOCATION :CLASS.
+    ** ALLOCATE-INSTANCE now works on structure classes defined via
+       DEFSTRUCT (and not just by those from DEFCLASS :METACLASS
+       STRUCTURE-CLASS).
+    ** SLOT-EXISTS-P now works on conditions, as well as structures
+       and CLOS instances.
+    ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM now has the required methods on
+       STRUCTURE-OBJECT, CONDITION and STANDARD-OBJECT.
+    ** MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS no longer returns a special
+       keyword, and now implements the SLOT-NAMES argument.
+    ** methods with &OPTIONAL arguments no longer allow too many
+       arguments to be passed in the call without error.
+    ** DEFGENERIC now checks that the :ARGUMENT-PRECEDENCE-ORDER
+       option is consistent with the required arguments of the generic
+       function lambda list.
+  * bug fix: REQUIRE accepts a string designator. (Thanks to 
+    Antonio Martinez.)
+  * bug fix: SB-MOP:DIRECT-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS and
+    SB-MOP:EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION-CLASS now have the
+    specified-by-AMOP lambda list of (CLASS &REST INITARGS).
+  * bug fix: The compiler now checks for duplicated variables in macro
+    lambda lists.
+  * bug fix: SETQ on globals returns the correct value.
+  * fixed bug 47.d: (DEFGENERIC IF (X)) now signals a PROGRAM-ERROR,
+    not a COMPILER-ERROR (followed by some other strange error on
+    choosing the CONTINUE restart).
+  * bug fix: make.sh and friends are now more consistent in the way that
+    they for GNU "make".
 
+changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
+  * minor incompatible change: some nonsensical specialized lambda
+    lists (used in DEFMETHOD) which were previously ignored now signal
+    errors.
+  * changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
+    ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
+    ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
+    ** type checking in branches (194bc).
+  * VALUES declaration is disabled.
+  * a short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning.
+  * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
+    keywords or constants is permissible.
+  * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
+    defined on the relevant FUNDAMENTAL-BINARY-{INPUT,OUTPUT}-STREAM
+    classes.  (thanks to Antonio Martinez)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
-    down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe later, it might impact TRACE. They both
-    encapsulate functions, and it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE
-    will interact with TRACE
-    and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't matter, though, unless you are
-    using profiling. If you never profile anything, TRACE should
-    continue to behave as before.)
+    down, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and
+    it's not clear yet how e.g. UNPROFILE will interact with TRACE
+    and UNTRACE. (This shouldn't matter, though, unless you are using
+    profiling. If you never profile anything, TRACE should continue to
+    behave as before.)
   * (not done yet, but planned:) Inlining can now be controlled the
     ANSI way, without MAYBE-INLINE, since the idiom
 	(DECLAIM (INLINE FOO))