X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=7590b5934085bced9a9738625718cbe85bba6166;hb=4d653f81365917ace3da1e155f1bfe25fbc71507;hp=87c8c0eec3570cacbb2315cc98270d93849d866d;hpb=bd2df60f7c3f579a9c7610925c79a0e783adaa0e;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 87c8c0e..7590b59 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,68 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.39: - * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a -single call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name -to the package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS). +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.42 + * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF + &co. + * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to + Faré Rideau) + * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497, + thanks to Andrew Golding) + * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to + Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names, + breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable. + (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators + correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces + on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: scripting fixes for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497, thanks to + Josh Elsasser) + * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, thanks to + Josh Elsasser) + * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers + without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387) + * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC. + (lp#544421) + * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as + initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41 + * build changes + ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using + command-line argument --xc-host= instead of a positional + argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring) + ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line + argument --prefix=. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring) + * optimization: The default implementation of + COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work. + * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use + by multithreaded code. See documentation for details. + * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC. + * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden) + * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second + argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists. + (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2. + (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40: + * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is + cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to + COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS. + * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a + CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function + if it exists. + * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39: + * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897) + * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single + call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the + package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS). * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64 (lp#533470). + * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux. changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38: * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show