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@@ -2,7 +2,12 @@
 changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
   * notice: The implementation of MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of
     ROOM, plus a few SB-INTROSPECT functions) has been completely
-    rewritten, it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
+    rewritten; it may now exhibit different bugs than before.
+  * new feature: minimal runtime/compiler intrastructure support for SSE
+    SIMD values, as SB-EXT:SIMD-PACK. Enabled on x86-64 via the build-time
+    feature :sb-simd-pack. This should enable intrinsics extensions as
+    libraries, without patching SBCL itself. Thanks to Alexander Gavrilov
+    for maintaining a branch for so long.
   * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM supports a :DIRECTORY argument to set
     the working directory of the spawned process.
     (lp#791800) (patch by Matthias Benkard)
@@ -18,6 +23,18 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
   * enhancement: MAP-ALLOCATED-OBJECTS (the heart of ROOM) now walks the
     heap in a manner similar to the GC rather than its previous ad-hoc
     scheme, and is therefore no less and possibly more accurate.
+  * fixes and enhancements related to Unicode:
+    ** the character database information has been updated to Unicode 6.2;
+    ** support for canonical and compatibility decomposition of characters has
+       been added, along with support for primary composition;
+    ** support for Unicode normalization forms of strings (NFC, NFKC, NFD and
+       NFKD) has been included;
+    ** querying the character database for code points not defined by Unicode
+       gives less wrong answers (lp#1178038, reported by Ken Harris)
+  * enhancement: print intermediate evaluation results for some ASSERTed
+    expressions. (lp#789497) (patch by Alexandra Barchunova)
+  * enhancement: x86-64 disassemblies are annotated with unboxed constant
+    values when there are references to (RIP-relative) unboxed constants.
   * bug fix: type derivation for LOG{AND,IOR,XOR} scales linearly instead
     of quadratically with the size of the input in the worst case.
     (lp#1096444)
@@ -45,6 +62,17 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
     codegen errors: type checks are inserted as necessary. (lp#1177703)
   * bug fix: Unsigned modular arithmetic is correctly converted into signed
     modular arithemtic (mostly to exploit fixnum-width VOPs). (lp#1026634)
+  * bug fix: a combination of inlined local function with &optional and
+    recursion no longer causes undescriptive compiler errors. (lp#1180992)
+  * bug fix: sub-word BOOLEAN alien types now disregard higher order bits
+    when testing for non-zero-ness.
+  * bug fix: (CONCATENATE 'null ...) no longer fails for generic sequences.
+    (lp#1162301)
+  * bug fix: Type mismatch for the value of conditional expressions are
+    correctly reported when detected at compile-time, instead of complaining
+    about a constant NIL (similar for non-EQ-comparable catch tags).
+  * bug fix: Referring to INLINE global functions as values should not result
+    in a compilation failure. (lp#1035721)
   * optimization: faster ISQRT on fixnums and small bignums
   * optimization: faster and smaller INTEGER-LENGTH on fixnums on x86-64.
   * optimization: On x86-64, the number of multi-byte NOP instructions used
@@ -57,6 +85,24 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.1.7:
     compilation now inline the INVOKE-WITH-SAVED-FP-AND-PC dance.
   * optimization: ROOM no longer conses so egregiously on non-x86oid
     systems.
+  * optimization: associative bitwise operations reassociate patterns like
+    (f (f x k1) k2) to expose (f x (f k1 k2)).  Same for + and * of
+    rational values.
+  * optimization: quasiquote expressions now perform more constant folding,
+    instead of consing equal lists at runtime. (lp#1026439)
+  * optimization: local call analysis of inlined higher-order function
+    should converge more quickly, resulting in better code for complex
+    functions.
+  * optimization: On x86-64, medium (word-sized but wider than 32 bits)
+    integer constants are handled more cleverly, especially when they
+    can be represented as sign-extended (signed-byte 32). (Based on a
+    patch by Douglas Katzman)
+  * optimization: IF/IF conversion should reliably result in sane code
+    when (some of) the results of the inner IF are always false or
+    always true.
+  * optimization: On x86oids, variable right shifts of machine words are
+    compiled into straight SAR/SHR, instead of going through the generic
+    VOP. (lp#1066204)
 
 changes in sbcl-1.1.7 relative to sbcl-1.1.6:
   * enhancement: TRACE :PRINT-ALL handles multiple-valued forms.