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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 8156f78..9bf52bd 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
        (Mainly useful for building 32-bit SBCL's on x86-64 hosts, not
        full-blows cross-compilation.)
   * enhancement: extended package prefix syntax <pkgname>::<form-in-package>
-    which allows specifying the name of the package for a whole form.
+    which allows specifying name of the default interning package for the
+    whole form.
   * enhancement: when *READ-EVAL* is true, arrays with element type other than
     T can be printed readably using #.-based syntax. (Thanks to Robert Brown)
   * enhancement: MAKE-ALIEN signals a storage-condition instead of returning a
@@ -26,6 +27,21 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
     tests.
   * enhancement: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
     function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on x86oids.
+  * enhancement: detected deadlocks no longer cause stderr to be spammed, and
+    deadlock errors are reported in an easier-to-decipher manner.
+  * enhancement: DESCRIBE on type designators reports the expansion in more
+    cases.
+  * enhancement: SBCL now provides either an explicit :BIG-ENDIAN or
+    :LITTLE-ENDIAN in *FEATURES*, instead of :BIG-ENDIAN being implied by lack
+    of the :LITTLE-ENDIAN feature. (Thanks to Luís Oliveira, lp#901661)
+  * enhancement: better disassembly of segment-prefixes on x86 and other
+    instruction prefixes (e.g. LOCK) on x86 and x86-64.
+  * optimization: FIND and POSITION on bit-vectors are orders of magnitude
+    faster (assuming KEY and TEST are not used, or are sufficiently trivial).
+  * optimization: SUBSEQ on vectors of unknown element type is substantially
+    faster. (lp#902537)
+  * optimization: specialized arrays with non-zero :INITIAL-ELEMENT can
+    be stack-allocated. (lp#902351)
   * optimization: the compiler is smarter about representation selection for
     floating point constants used in full calls.
   * optimization: the compiler no longer refuses to coerce large fixnums to
@@ -53,6 +69,26 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.54:
   * bug fix: non-toplevel DEFSTRUCT signaled a style warning for unknown type.
   * bug fix: redefining a function whose previous definition contained an
     unknown type no longer causes a style-warning. (lp#806243)
+  * bug fix: undefined functions now appear in backtraces as ("undefined
+    function") instead of ("bogus stack frame") on non-x86oids.
+  * bug fix: backtraces are no longer cut off at ("undefined function") when
+    called under certain circumstances (involving a caller-allocated stack
+    frame) on PPC.
+  * bug fix: RUN-PROGRAM leaked a file-descriptor per call on non-Windows
+    systems. (regression since 1.0.53)
+  * bug fix: GC deadlocks from dladdr() on certain platforms.
+  * bug fix: broken standard streams no longer automatically cause recursive
+    errors on debugger entry.
+  * bug fix: build ignored --dynamic-space-size=<size> argument to make.sh
+    (regression since 1.0.53)
+  * bug fix: attempts to stack allocate a required argument to a function with
+    an external entry point caused compiler-errors.
+  * bug fix: compiler notes for failed stack allocation for a function argument
+    no longer claim to be unable to stack allocate the function.
+  * bug fix: COERCE now signals a type-error on several coercions to
+    subtypes of CHARACTER that are forbidden according to ANSI. (lp#841312)
+  * bug fix: missing failure-to-stack-allocate compiler notes for some
+    forms of MAKE-ARRAY with dynamic-extent. (lp#902351)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.54 relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
   * minor incompatible changes: