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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,14 +1,18 @@
 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*-
-changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
-  * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
+changes relative to sbcl-1.9.38:
+  * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show
+    the calling frame.
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
+  * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs
     like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095)
-  * DEPRECATION: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
+  * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY
     contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE.
-  * DEPRECATION: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
+  * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of
     SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX.
-  * new contrib: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to contain
-    additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming; at the
-    moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
+  * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to
+    contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming;
+    at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox
     implementation.
   * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated
     GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters.  Also added
@@ -40,6 +44,15 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
     ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it
        incurred an off-by-one miscount.
   * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473)
+  * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing.
+  * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for
+    x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192)
+  * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with
+    some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079)
+  * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on 
+    x86-64.
+  * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported.  (Thanks
+    to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev)
   * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE.
   * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption.
   * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due
@@ -60,6 +73,21 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37:
   * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the
     :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564)
   * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490)
+  * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549)
+  * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680)
+  * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles
+    denormals.
+  * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87.
+    The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64.
+  * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely
+    ignored anymore.
+  * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha.
+  * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures. 
+    (lp#569404)
+  * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again.
+  * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>.
+  * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL
+    types) could result in type mismatches during compilation.
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36:
   * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows