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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
+  * fixed bug #390: :CHARACTER-SET pathname components now work as
+    expected.  (reported by Tim Daly Jr)
+  * fixed bug #391: complicated :TYPE intersections in slot
+    definitions no longer cause an error in PCL internals.
+  * bug fix: FILE-STRING-LENGTH is now external-format sensitive,
+    returning the number of octets which would be written to the
+    file-stream.  (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
+  * optimization: improved type inference for arithmetic-for
+    index variables in LOOP
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
-  * optimization: performance improvements to READ-LINE
+  * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
+    GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
+    therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
+    least permitted and maybe required by AMOP).  As a consolation,
+    however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
+    REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
+  * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
+    7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
+    COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
+    argument, as do eslotd initialization methods.  (from Pascal
+    Costanza's "Closer" project)
+  * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
+    COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
+    specified by AMOP.
+  * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
+    STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
+    (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
+  * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
+    functions.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
+    and Pascal Costanza)
+  * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
+    DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly.  (reported by
+    Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
+  * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
+    circumstances.  (thanks to Simon Alexander)
+  * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
+    merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
+  * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
+    (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
+  * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
+    disassembling SSE instructions.  (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
+    (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+  * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
+    (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
+  * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
+    :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
+  * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
+  * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
+    on gencgc
+  * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64 
+    (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
+    floating point index variable or a negative step.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
   * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
@@ -762,7 +816,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
     (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
   * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
     generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
-    bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
+    bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
   * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
     associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
     Bruno Haible)