X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=8a04c42afd6069205f9d6094a878b455d8fe4ad2;hb=402958f92506b9d3de852601b8c1ccb99b5ee558;hp=c964bacc1885d05b2707727d367551b98caeb820;hpb=550f09b2bbea9495931a9e964dfeea5ca7d38aff;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index c964bac..8a04c42 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,9 +1,116 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.14 relative to sbcl-0.9.13: + * feature: thread support on Solaris/x86, and experimental thread support + on OS X/x86. + * minor incompatible change: prevent the user from specializing the + new-value argument to SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS. It's + somewhat counter to the intent of the protocol, I (CSR) think, and + additionally it just doesn't work in SBCL as currently + implemented, thanks to optimizations (that are always valid for + the other three SLOT-VALUEish functions, but not for the setter). + * bug fix: unparsing logical pathnames with :NAME :WILD :TYPE NIL + failed with a type error. (reported by Pascal Bourguignon) + * bug fix: merging pathnames against defaults with :DIRECTORY + starting with '(:RELATIVE :BACK) should preserve the :BACK. + (reported by James Y Knight) + * improved SB-BSD-SOCKETS support on Windows. (thanks to Timothy + Ritchey) + * bug fix: saving large (>2GB) cores on x86-64 now works + * bug fix: a x86-64 backend bug when compiling (setf aref) with a + constant index and a (simple-array (signed-byte 32)) array + * bug fix: NAME-CHAR on an invalid symbol no longer signals an + error (patch by Robert J. Macomber) + * feature: TIME now displays the amount of run-time spent in GC + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** MISC.641: LET-conversion were not supposed to work in late + compilation stages. + +changes in sbcl-0.9.13 relative to sbcl-0.9.12: + * new feature: source path information is generated for macro-expansion + errors for use in IDE's like Slime (thanks to Helmut Eller) + * bug fix: calls to the compiler no longer modify *RANDOM-STATE* + * bug fix: compiler does not loop forever on an invalid type in + TYPEP. + * improvement: compilation of most CLOS applications is significantly + faster + * optimization: added a limited bytecode compiler for simple toplevel + forms, speeding up compilation and FASL loading + +changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11: + * minor incompatible change: in sbcl-0.9.11 (but not earlier + versions) SB-MOP:FINALIZE-INHERITANCE would recursively descend + into subclasses of the finalized class. Now user calls to + FINALIZE-INHERITANCE finalize just the one class, and calls by the + system return before any subclasses are finalized. + * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors + regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests. + * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to + inhibit loading the corresponding init files + * new feature: add a generic function SOCKET-SEND to SB-BSD-SOCKETS, + for sending data through UDP sockets (thanks to François-René Rideau) + * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe" + error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau) + * minor incompatible change: Error signalling behaviour of lexical + operations violating package locks has changed slightly. Refer to + documentation on package locks for details. + * enhancement: EVAL can process IF-expressions without resorting to the + compiler. + * bug fix: Some operations involving SIN, COS, or TAN weren't being + constant-folded properly due to missing out-of-line functions. + (reported by Mika Pihlajamäki) + * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was + immediately available from the stream + * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR + were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros) + * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer + when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array. (reported + by Utz-Uwe Haus) + * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the + appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman) + * bug fix: MAKE-LOAD-FORM-SAVING-SLOTS accepts en empty slot name + list. + * bug fix: precomputing cache entries for generic functions with + some subclasses of specializers as yet invalid does not attempt to + fill a cache line with a negative offset. (reported by Levente + Mészároz) + * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types: + allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and + (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for + structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type. (suggested by Gary + King) + * improvements to the Win32/x86 port: + ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file + locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings" + directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk) + ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas) + ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey) + ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + ** sb-grovel supported + ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat + ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL + * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port: + ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express + ** floating-point exception handling support + ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when + the method is not one of the generic functions' methods. + ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to + structure accessors. + ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C + directive. + ** compiler failure when compiling functions with hairy constant + defaults for optional parameters. + ** compiler produces wrong code when MAYBE-INLINE-expanding a + function, which is already optimized. + changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10: * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel. * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR). + * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is + exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*. * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of this change is to make it easier to distribute @@ -19,6 +126,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10: to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented, particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing. (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) + * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol + values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller. + (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater) * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.