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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 
@@ -831,12 +833,18 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.0 relative to sbcl-0.6.13:
   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
+* 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.
-  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.
+    ?? 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.
 * 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.
@@ -851,7 +859,7 @@ 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
+* lots of tidying up internally: renaming things so that names are
   more systematic and consistent, converting C macros to inline
   functions, systematizing indentation
 * The fasl file version number changed again, for any number of
@@ -863,7 +871,6 @@ 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