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@@ -813,6 +813,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
   fasl file version.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
+* incompatible change: The default fasl file extension has changed
+  to ".fasl", for all architectures. (No longer ".x86f" and ".axpf".) 
 * There are new compiler optimizations for various functions: FIND,
   POSITION, FIND-IF, POSITION-IF, FILL, COERCE, TRUNCATE, FLOOR, and
   CEILING. Mostly these should be transparent, but there's one 
@@ -823,20 +825,28 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
   it will issue WARNINGs about the type mismatches. It's not clear
   how to make the compiler smart enough to fix this in general, but
   a workaround is given in the entry for 117 in the BUGS file.
-* The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation,
-  is no longer part of the base system. The files which used to 
-  be in the doc/cmucl/ directory are now available as
-    <ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.
+* The EVAL and EVAL-WHEN code has been largely rewritten, and the
+  old CMU CL "IR1 interpreter" has gone away. The new interpreter
+  is probably slower and harder to debug than the old one, but
+  it's much simpler (several thousand lines of source code simpler)
+  and considerably more ANSI-compliant. Bugs
+    ?? IR1-3 and
+    ?? IR1-3a
+  have been fixed. Since the code is newer, there might still be
+  some new bugs (though not as many as before Martin Atzmueller's
+  fixes:-). But hopefully any remaining bugs will be simpler, less
+  fundamental, and more fixable then the bugs in the old IR1
+  interpreter code.
+* DEFSTRUCT and DEFCLASS have been substantially updated to take
+  advantage of the new EVAL-WHEN stuff and to clean them up in 
+  general, and are now more ANSI-compliant in a number of ways. Martin
+  Atzmueller is responsible for a lot of this.
+* A bug in LOOP operations on hash tables has been fixed, thanks
+  to a bug report and patch from Alexey Dejneka.
 * The default value of *BYTES-CONSED-BETWEEN-GCS* has been 
   doubled, to 4 million. (If your application spends a lot of time
   GCing and you have a lot of RAM, you might want to experiment with
   increasing it even more.)
-?? The system's handling of top-level forms and EVAL-WHEN is now
-  more ANSI-compliant, fixing bugs
-    ?? IR1-3 and
-    ?? IR1-3a.
-  It's also done by much newer code, so there might be some new bugs,
-  but hopefully if so they'll be less fundamental and more fixable.
 * PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK now copies the *PRINT-LINES* value on entry
   and uses that copy, rather than the current dynamic value, when
   it's trying to decide whether to truncate output . Thus e.g.
@@ -851,9 +861,14 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
   :SB-PROPAGATE-FUN-TYPE are no longer considered to be optional
   features. Instead, the code that they used to control is always
   built into the system.
-?? lots of tidying up internally: renaming things so that names are
+* The doc/cmucl/ directory, containing old CMU CL documentation,
+  is no longer part of the base system. The files which used to 
+  be in the doc/cmucl/ directory are now available as
+    <ftp://sbcl.sourceforge.net/pub/sbcl/cmucl-docs.tar.bz2>.
+* lots of tidying up internally: renaming things so that names are
   more systematic and consistent, converting C macros to inline
-  functions, systematizing indentation
+  functions, systematizing indentation, making symbol packaging
+  more logical, and so forth
 * The fasl file version number changed again, for any number of
   good reasons.
 
@@ -863,7 +878,6 @@ planned incompatible changes in 0.7.x:
   instead of the old "5]", "5]]", "5]]]" sequence. (I was motivated
   to do this when squabbles between ILISP and SBCL left me
   very deeply nested in the debugger.)
-* The fasl file extension may change, perhaps to ".fasl".
 * The default output representation for unprintable ASCII characters 
   which, unlike e.g. #\Newline, don't have names defined in the 
   ANSI Common Lisp standard, may change to their ASCII symbolic