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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -24,8 +24,31 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
        STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
     ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
        using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
-  * enhancement: on GENCGC systems nursery size now defaults to 5% of
-    dynamic-space size.
+  * GC-related enhancements and bug fixes:
+    ** --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size now understand Kb, Mb,
+         and Gb suffixes. Default is megabytes as before.
+    ** Default dynamic space size on all GENCGC platforms is now 512Mb for
+       32-bit systems, and 1Gb for 64-bit systems. (OpenBSD/x86-64 is the only
+       exception, defaulting to mere 444Mb to fit under default ulimits.) The
+       new defaults are in place to prevent hitting swap on low-end systems.
+       Use build-time option --dynamic-space-size to build an SBCL with
+       another default, or the runtime option to adjust the size at startup: a
+       good size is at most equal to the amount of physical memory the system
+       has.
+    ** on GENCGC systems nursery and generation sizes now default to 5% of
+       dynamic-space size.
+    ** on 64-bit systems setting the nursery size above 4Gb now
+       works. (lp#870868)
+    ** SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ on GENCGC no longer categorically refuses to
+       create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
+  * SB-BSD-SOCKETS bug fixes:
+    ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
+    ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
+       systems with getaddrinfo().
+    ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
+       safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
+  * enhancement: debug-names of anonymous and local function are more
+    descriptive. Affects backtraces and SB-SPROF results. (lp#805100)
   * enhancement: on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does
     the same validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
     comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.
@@ -33,24 +56,23 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
     overflows. (lp#888410)
   * enhancement: RUN-PROGRAM now distinguishes exec() failing from child
     process exiting with code 1. (lp#676987)
+  * enhancement: convenience function SET-SBCL-SOURCE-LOCATION for informing
+    the system where on the filesystem the SBCL sources themselves are
+    located.  (Thanks to Zach Beane)
   * bug fix: on 64-bit targets, atomic-incf/aref does index computation
     correctly, even on wide-fixnum builds. (lp#887220)
   * bug fix: (directory "foo/*/*.*") did not follow symlinks in foo/ that
     resolved to directories.
-  * bug fix: SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ on GENCGC no longer categorically
-    refuses to create SIMPLE-FUN objects.
   * bug fix: type mismatch when assigning to lexical variables no longer
     result in fasl-dumping internal type objects. (lp#890750)
   * bug fix: type mismatch on (setf aref) and function return values no
     longer result in fasl-dumping internal type objects.
-  * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS issues
-    ** GET-PROTOCOL-BY-NAME had a significant memory leak.
-    ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS small amounts of memory on
-       systems with getaddrinfo().
-    ** GET-HOST-BY-NAME and GET-HOST-BY-ADDRESS weren't thread or interrupt
-       safe outside systems with getaddrinfo().
-  * bug fix: on 64-bit systems setting the nursery size above 4Gb now works.
-    (lp#870868)
+  * bug fix: With several combinations of argument types, for example (EXPT
+    <integer> <(complex double)>), EXPT now uses double-precision throughout
+    instead of partially calculating only to single-precision.  (lp#741564;
+    thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * bug fix: SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD is no longer able to construct bogus
+    objects when interrupted by GC on PPC.
 
 changes in sbcl-1.0.53 relative to sbcl-1.0.52:
   * enhancement: on 64-bit targets, in src/compiler/generic/early-vm.lisp,