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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
+  * 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: 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: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
+    merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
+  * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
+    disassembling SSE instructions.  (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * 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)
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
   * bug fix: add a workaround to SBCL looping infinitely at startup on
     Linux kernels with apparently buggy implementations of personality().
@@ -12,9 +42,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
     on platforms supporting dynamic-extent allocation.
   * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now supported
     on MIPS/Linux in addition to the previously supported platforms.
-  * bug fix: COMPUTE-RESTARTS returns all active restarts, including those
-    with :TEST, when called without a condition. (reported by Helmut Eller for
-    CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: FIND-RESTART now tests for activity, not applicability when given
+    a restart object as identifier. (reported by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
   * bug fix: division by zero in sb-sprof when no samples were collected
   * bug fix: a race when a slow to arrive sigprof signal killed sbcl
   * bug fix: asdf-install uses CRLF as required by the HTTP spec.
@@ -27,6 +56,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
   * bug fix: run cleanup forms (in all threads) when receiving a SIGTERM
     and dump core on SIGQUIT
   * threads
+    ** incompatible change: threads do not inherit values of specials
+       from their parents (see manual)
     ** bug fix: threads stacks belonging to dead threads are freed by the
        next exiting thread, no need to gc to collect thread stacks anymore
     ** minor incompatible change: INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-ERRNO removed
@@ -39,7 +70,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.6 relative to sbcl-0.9.5:
        CONS types where some of the members have uncertain (in the
        NIL, NIL sense) type relationships to each other.
   * GENCGC
-    ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are 
+    ** Cores produced by SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE on GENCGC platforms are
        no longer purified unless :PURIFY T is explicitly specified.
     ** Non-purified cores are significantly smaller than before
 
@@ -758,7 +789,7 @@ 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)