X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=6abedd44f9273b2e508131b0661a95c6470d70c5;hb=0e03a9ac950b78d776c4869c809e202d9e929f39;hp=2f5f1477ce4f7d951f4af23e594d10ba6d62fdca;hpb=7516363f36f26eaf64b7e4eb23b5980e915d7259;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 2f5f147..6abedd4 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,4 +1,27 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-1.0.5 relative to sbcl-1.0.4: + * incompatible change: removed writer methods for host-ent-name, + host-ent-addresses -- changing the values did not update the DNS + information anyway. + * minor incompatible change: changed experimental JOIN-THREAD interface + * documentation: the manual now lists reader and writer methods + in class slot documentation sections. (thanks to Richard M Kreuter) + * documentation: unwinding from asyncronous events has been + documented as unsafe. + * documentation: SB-SYS:WITHOUT-GCING has been documented as unsafe + in multithreaded application code. + * optimization: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME has been optimized on POSIX + platforms. (thanks to James Anderson for the optimization hint) + * bug fix: number of characters that can be written onto a single + line in a file is unlimited. + * bug fix: some GC deadlocks caused by asynchronous interrupts have + been fixed by inhibiting interrupts for when GC is disbled. + * bug fix: GETHASH, PUTHASH, CLRHASH and REMHASH are now interrupt safe. + * bug fix: binding *BREAK-ON-SIGNALS* to a value that is not a type + specifier no longer causes infinite recursion. + * improvement: the x86-64/darwin port now passes all tests and + should be considered non-experimental. + changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3: * new platform: experimental support for x86-64/darwin (MacOS). * incompatible change: the thread-safe (on most platforms) getaddrinfo @@ -6,10 +29,21 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3: and gethostbyname, on platforms where the newer functions are available. As a result, the ALIASES field of HOST-ENT will always be NIL on these platforms. + * change: runtimes with embedded cores (i.e. saved with :EXECUTABLE T) + don't print the startup banner, but behave as if --noinform was passed + as a command line argument. (thanks to Kevin Reid) + * new experimental feature: added JOIN-THREAD (by NIIMI Satoshi) * optimization: code using alien values with undeclared types is much faster. * optimization: the compiler is now able to open code SEARCH in more cases. - * optimization: more compact (thanks to Lutz Euler) - * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. + * optimization: more compact typechecks on x86-64 (thanks to Lutz Euler) + * bug fix: using standardized COMMON-LISP special variables as loop + variables no longer signals bogus package lock violations. (reported + by Eric Marsden) + * bug fix: declaring local loop variables to be of a range-limited type + such as (SINGLE-FLOAT 1.0 2.0) no longer causes a compile-time error. + (reported by Andras Simon) + * bug fix: >= and <= gave wrong results when used with NaNs. (Some NaN + bugs remain on x86-64.) * bug fix: the #= and ## reader macros now interact reasonably with funcallable instances. * bug fix: type-checks for function arguments were compiled using the @@ -21,6 +55,8 @@ changes in sbcl-1.0.4 relative to sbcl-1.0.3: non-base strings as arguments * bug fix: more consistent error output for fatal-compiler-warnings, like reader errors + * bug fix: functions with proper names were showing up as NIL in + backtraces (reported by Edi Weitz, regression in 1.0.2) changes in sbcl-1.0.3 relative to sbcl-1.0.2: * new platform: NetBSD/PPC. (thanks to Aymeric Vincent)