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@@ -1937,6 +1937,56 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.2 relative to sbcl-0.8.1:
     ** condition slot accessors are methods.
     ** (VECTOR NIL) is a subtype of STRING.
 
+changes in sbcl-0.8.3 relative to sbcl-0.8.2:
+  * SBCL now builds and runs on MacOS X (version 10.2), or perhaps
+    more accurately, on the Darwin kernel running on PowerPC hardware.
+    (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook, Pierre Mai and Patrik Nordebo)
+  * Compiler code deletion notes now signal a condition of type
+    SB-EXT:CODE-DELETION-NOTE (a subtype of SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE) with
+    an associated MUFFLE-WARNING restart.
+  * The compiler now performs limited argument count validation of
+    constant format strings in FORMAT, and where appropriate in ERROR, 
+    CERROR and WARN.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+  * New ASDF-INSTALL contrib can be used for automatic download and 
+    installation of third-party Lisp code from CCLAN or other sites
+    via CLiki
+  * Threaded builds (:SB-THREAD) now support SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD,
+    which forces another thread to execute a function supplied by the
+    caller
+  * bug 75 fix: WITH-OUTPUT-TO-STRING (and MAKE-STRING-OUTPUT-STREAM) now
+    accept and act upon their :ELEMENT-TYPE keyword argument.
+    (reported by Martin Atzmueller, Edi Weitz)
+  * bug fix: FILE-POSITION now accepts position designators up to
+    ARRAY-DIMENSION-LIMIT or the extreme of the off_t range, whichever
+    is the greater.  (thanks to Patrik Nordebo)
+  * bug fix: MAKE-ARRAY ignored :INITIAL-CONTENTS NIL. (reported by
+    Kalle Olavi Niemitalo)
+  * bug fix: the CLASS-PROTOTYPE of the GENERIC-FUNCTION class is now
+    printable.  (reported by Eric Marsden)
+  * bug fix in sb-posix: mmap() now works on systems with a 64-bit
+    off_t, including Darwin and FreeBSD.  (thanks to Andreas Fuchs)
+  * x86 bug fix in control stack exhaustion checking: now shows backtrace
+  * bug fix in WITH-TIMEOUT: now the body can have more than one form.
+    (thanks to Stig Sandoe)
+  * bug fix in READ-SEQUENCE: READ-SEQUENCE following PEEK-CHAR or
+    UNREAD-CHAR now correctly includes the unread character in the
+    target sequence.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+  * new optimization: inside a named function any reference to a
+    function with the same name is considered to be a self-reference;
+    this behaviour is controlled with SB-C::RECOGNIZE-SELF-CALLS
+    optimization quality.
+  * new optimization on x86: logical functions and + now have
+    optimized (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) versions, which are automatically
+    used when the result is truncated to 32 bits.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** The system now obeys the constraint imposed by
+       UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE that the upgraded array element
+       types form a lattice under type intersection.
+    ** FFLOOR, FTRUNCATE, FCEILING and FROUND work with integers.
+    ** ASSOC now ignores NIL elements in an alist.
+    ** CEILING now gives the right answer with MOST-NEGATIVE-FIXNUM
+       and (1+ MOST-POSITIVE-FIXNUM) answers.
+
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles
     down, it might impact TRACE. They both encapsulate functions, and