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@@ -1776,12 +1776,28 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
     variables in the COMMON-LISP package, and will signal errors for
     most violations of these type constraints (where previously they
     were silently accepted).
-  * changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
+  * minor incompatible change: COMPILE-FILE now uses the freedom
+    afforded (ANSI 3.2.2.3) to use derived function types for
+    functions defined in the same file. This also permits the system
+    to warn on static type mismatches and function
+    redefinition.  (Currently it does not work with high DEBUG level.)
+  * minor incompatible change: VALUES declaration is disabled.
+  * When issuing notes, the compiler now signals a condition of type
+    SB-EXT:COMPILER-NOTE, and provides an associated MUFFLE-WARNING
+    restart for use in user handlers.  It is expected that the
+    COMPILER-NOTE condition will eventually become a condition
+    supertype to a hierarchy of note types, which will then be
+    handleable in a similar fashion. However, at the moment, no such
+    note subtypes yet exist. (SB-INT:SIMPLE-COMPILER-NOTE exists,
+    but it's an implementation detail, not a classification for the
+    purpose above.)
+  * Changes in type checking closed the following bugs:
     ** type checking of unused values (192b, 194d, 203);
     ** template selection based on unsafe type assertions (192c, 236);
     ** type checking in branches (194bc).
-  * VALUES declaration is disabled.
-  * a short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning.
+  * A short form of VALUES type specifier has ANSI meaning (it has
+    increased the number of situations when SBCL cannot perform type
+    checking).
   * fixed bug in DEFSTRUCT: once again, naming structure slots with
     keywords or constants is permissible.
   * STREAM-READ-SEQUENCE and STREAM-WRITE-SEQUENCE now have methods
@@ -1791,22 +1807,87 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
     outputs FRESH-LINE or TERPRI, and no longer converts its stream
     argument to a pretty-print stream. Instead, it leaves any such 
     operations to DESCRIBE-OBJECT methods.
-  * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag.  (reported
+  * bug fix: APROPOS now respects the EXTERNAL-ONLY flag. (reported
     by Teemu Kalvas)
   * bug fix: NIL is now a valid destructuring argument in DEFMACRO
-    lambda lists.  (thanks to David Lichteblau)
-  * bug fix: defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
+    lambda lists. (thanks to David Lichteblau)
+  * bug fix: Defining a generic function with a :METHOD-CLASS being a
     subclass of STANDARD-METHOD no longer causes stack exhaustion.
     (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
-  * increased compilation speed of long MULTIPLE-VALUES-BIND.
+  * fixed bug 246: increased compilation speed of long
+    MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND (and likewise of NTH-VALUE with a constant
+    integer argument)
+  * a contributed module implementing COMPILER-LET and MACROEXPAND-ALL
+    has been included.
+  * DEFCONSTANT now throws a condition of type
+    SB-EXT:DEFCONSTANT-UNEQL if it is being asked to redefine a
+    constant to a non-EQL value; CONTINUE and ABORT restarts
+    respectively change and preserve the value. 
+  * fixed bug 63: The code walker, part of the implementation of CLOS,
+    is now better at handling symbol macros.
+  * bug fix: There is no longer an internal implementation type named
+    CL:LENGTH. (reported by Raymond Toy)
+  * bug fix: In macro-like defining macros/special operators the
+    implicit block does not enclose the lambda list.
+  * fixed bugs 10 and 43: Bare VALUES, AND, OR and MEMBER symbols (not
+    enclosed in parentheses) are not suitable as type specifiers, and
+    their use properly signals an error now.
+  * bug fix: An argument count mismatch for a type specifier in code
+    being compiled no longer causes an unhandled error at compile
+    time, but signals a compile-time warning.
+  * fixed simple vector readable printing
+  * bug fix: DESCRIBE takes more care over whether the class
+    precedence list slot of a class is bound before accessing it.
+    (reported by Markus Krummenacker)
+  * bug fix: FORMATTER can successfully compile pretty-printer format
+    strings which use variants of the ~* directive inside.
+  * bug fix: SEARCH now applies its TEST predicate to the elements of
+    the arguments in the correct order. (thanks to Wolfhard Buss)
+  * fixed bug 235b: The compiler uses return types of MAPCAR and friends
+    in type inference. (thanks to Robert E. Brown)
+  * bug fix: Reading in symbols with an explicit package name of ""
+    (e.g. '||::FOO) now works correctly.  (reported by Henrik Motakef)
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** NIL is now allowed as a structure slot name.
-    ** arbitrary numbers, not just reals, are allowed in certain
+    ** Arbitrary numbers, not just REALs, are allowed in certain
        circumstances in LOOP for-as-arithmetic clauses.
-    ** multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
+    ** Multiple class redefinitions before slot access no longer
        causes a type error.
     ** (SETF FIND-CLASS) now accepts NIL as an argument to remove the
        association between the name and a class.
+    ** Generic functions with non-standard method-combination and over
+       five methods all of which return constants no longer return NIL
+       after the first few invocations. (thanks to Gerd Moellmann)
+    ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD with no arguments now passes the original
+       values of the arguments, even in the presence of assignment.
+    ** Functions [N]SUBST*, LAST, NRECONC, [N]SUBLIS may return any
+       object.
+    ** DISASSEMBLE works with closures and funcallable instances.
+    ** ADD-METHOD now returns the generic function, not the new method.
+    ** FIND-METHOD signals an error if the lengths of the specializers
+       is incompatible with the generic function, even if the ERRORP
+       argument is true.
+    ** TYPE-OF returns recognizeable subtypes of all built-in-types of
+       which its argument is a member.
+    ** DEFCLASS only redefines the class named by its class-name
+       argument if that name is the proper name of the class;
+       otherwise, it creates a new class.
+    ** SLOT-UNBOUND now correctly initalizes the CELL-ERROR-NAME slot
+       of the UNBOUND-SLOT condition to the name of the slot.
+    ** (SETF (AREF bv 0) ...) did not work for bit vectors.
+    ** SLOT-UNBOUND and SLOT-MISSING now have their return values
+       treated by SLOT-BOUNDP, SLOT-VALUE, (SETF SLOT-VALUE) and
+       SLOT-MAKUNBOUND in the specified fashion.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.1 relative to sbcl-0.8.0:
+  * fixed bug 148: failure to inline-expand a local function left
+    garbage, confusing the compiler.
+  * fixed bugs 3cd: structure slot readers perform type check if the
+    slot can have an invalid value (i.e. it is either not initialized
+    or can be written with a less specific slot writer).
+  * bug fix: the compiler now traps array references to elements off
+    the end of an array; previously, the bounds checking in some
+    circumstances could go off-by-one.
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles