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@@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
   * 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,
+    ** 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
@@ -1037,6 +1037,17 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
        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)
+    ** fixes in CONDITION class precedence list for undefined function
+       errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
+    ** *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS* is used more consistently and 
+       correctly. (thanks to Dan Barlow)
+    ** portability fixes aiming at bootstrapping under CLISP (thanks
+       to Dave McDonald and Christophe Rhodes)
+    ** FORMAT fixes (thanks to Robert Strandh and Dan Barlow)
+    ** fixes in type translation and and type inference (thanks to
+       Christophe Rhodes)
+    ** fixes to optimizer internal errors (thanks to Alexei Dejneka)
+    ** various fixes in the new ports (thanks to Dan Barlow)
   * several changes related to debugging:
     ** suppression of tail recursion, as noted above
     ** stack overflow detection, as noted above
@@ -1046,8 +1057,55 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.2 relative to sbcl-0.7.1:
        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
+
+changes in sbcl-0.7.3 relative to sbcl-0.7.2:
+  * ANSI's DEFINE-SYMBOL-MACRO is now supported. (thanks to Nathan
+    Froyd porting CMU CL code originally by Douglas Thomas Crosher)
+  * SBCL now runs on the PPC archtiecture under Linux. It actually did
+    this as of 0.7.1.45, but was left out of the previous news section
+    (thanks to Dan Barlow)
+  * SBCL now runs on the Solaris operating system on SPARC architectures
+    (thanks to Christophe Rhodes's port of the CMUCL runtime)
+  * cleanups to the runtime on SPARC, both Linux and Solaris, and for
+    gcc>=3 (thanks to Nathan Froyd and Ingvar Mattsson)
+  * SPARC backend cleanups, allowing builds of cores optimized for V8
+    and V9 SPARCS, and also emission of code targeted to a particular
+    backend chosen at runtime (thanks to Christophe Rhodes and Raymond
+    Toy)
+  * SBCL is closer to bootstrapping under CLISP, thanks to various
+    fixes by Christophe Rhodes.
+  * The fasl file format has changed again, to allow the compiler's
+    INFO database to support symbol macros.
+  * The user manual (in doc/) is formatted into HTML more nicely.
+    (thanks to coreythomas)
+  * The system is smarter about SUBTYPEP relationships, especially
+    those involving NOT types (including types such as ATOM which are
+    represented internally using NOT types). Thus SUBTYPEP is less
+    likely to return (VALUES NIL NIL) in general, and in particular
+    bugs 58 and (the remaining bits of) bug 50 are fixed. (thanks to
+    Christophe Rhodes)
+  * The fasl file format has changed again, because the internal
+    representation of types now includes a new slot to support the new
+    SUBTYPEP-of-NOT-types logic.
+  * (not a change in the main branch of SBCL, but a related prototype
+    which can hopefully be merged into the main branch of SBCL in the
+    future:) Brian Spilsbury has produced a Unicode-enabled variant of
+    sbcl-0.7.0, available as a patch against sbcl-0.7.0 at
+      <http://designix.com.au/brian/SBCL/sbcl-0.7.0-unicode.p0.gz>.
+  * Bug 151 fixed: GET-DISPATCH-MACRO-CHAR now returns NIL for undefined
+    dispatch macro character combinations. (thanks to Alexey Dejneka)
+  * Bugfix in PARSE-NAMESTRING: we now correctly parse unix namestrings 
+    that superficially look like logical namestrings correctly.
+  * USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME now returns a (physical) pathname that SBCL
+    can deal with.
+  * Bugfix in DEFSTRUCT: BOA constructor lambda lists now accept (name
+    default supplied-p) for &optional and &key arguments. (thanks to
+    Martin Atzmueller)
+
+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)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
 * When the profiling interface settles down, maybe in 0.7.x, maybe