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+  * minor incompatible change: SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE :TOPLEVEL function is now
+    allowed to return, which causes SBCL to quit with exit status 0. Previously
+    if the function returned with a small integer return value, that value
+    was accidentally reused as the exit status.
+  * new feature: SB-EXT:DEFGLOBAL macro allows defining global non-special
+    variables.
+  * new feature: SB-EXT:ALWAYS-BOUND proclamation inhibits MAKUNBOUND, and
+    allows the compiler to safely elide boundedness checks for special
+    variables.
+  * new feature: SB-EXT:GLOBAL proclamation inhibits SPECIAL proclamations for
+    the symbol, prohibits both lexical and dynamic binding. This is mainly an
+    efficiency measure for threaded platforms, but also valueable in
+    expressing intent.
+  * optimization: compiler now generates faster array typechecking code.
+  * optimization: ARRAY-DIMENSION is now faster for multidimensional and
+    non-simple arrays.
+  * optimization: multidimensional array accesses in the absence of type
+    information regarding array rank are approximately 10% faster due to
+    open coding of ARRAY-RANK.
+  * improvement: SBCL now emits a compiler note where stack allocation was
+    requested but could not be provided.
+  * improvement: better MACHINE-VERSION responses. (thanks to Josh Elsasser)
+  * improvement: pretty-printing loop has been implemented properly. (thanks
+    to Tobias Rittweiler)
+  * documentation: CLOS slot typechecing policy has been documented.
+  * bug fix: exit status from QUIT when called under --script was lost
+    (reported by Hubert Kauker)
+  * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY for non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT always used the
+    same implementation of FILL to initialize the array, even if a more
+    efficient one was available (reported by Stas Boukarev, thanks to
+    Paul Khuong)
+  * bug fix: potential miscompilation of array stack allocation on x86 and
+    x86-64. (reported by Time Tossavainen)
+  * bug fix: some forms of AND, OR, and COND resulted in expansions that could
+    result in their subforms being treated as top level forms. (reported by
+    James Knight)
+  * bug fix: On x86/x86-64 alien functions declared to return integers shorter
+    than a machine register could leave garbage in the high bits of the
+    result register (bug 316325).
+  * bug fix: disable address space randomization Linux/x86-64 as well,
+    not just x86-64. (reported by Ken Olum)
+  * bug fix: Attempting to DEREF an (ALIEN (* T)) would produce a WARNING and
+    generate incorrect code.
+  * bug fix: #201; type inference for CONS and ARRAY types could derive
+    wrong results in the presence of eg. RPLACA or ADJUST-ARRAY.
+  * bug fix: special variables with a proclaimed specific subtype of FUNCTION
+    could not be assigned to or bound with PROGV. (reported by Lorenz
+    Mösenlechner)
+  * bug fix: the value of CL:- in the inspector was the previous expression
+    evaluated rather than the expression being evaluated.
+  * bug fix: constants can no longer be locally declared special.
+  * bug fix: signals delivered to threads started from foreign land (read:
+    directly by pthread_create, not by MAKE-THREAD) are redirected to a Lisp
+    thread by blocking all signals and resignalling.
+
 changes in sbcl-1.0.28 relative to 1.0.27:
   * a number of bugs in cross-compilation have been fixed, with the ultimate
     result that building under (at least) clisp should be much more reliable.