X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=b7953e8a2b2f075ea02f6579a9f36ce711eb1e18;hb=0338d1fc97a74b8ff332821ea275120b9de951c1;hp=f1a556d4f41a0e213d33b7d2b5ee99cf7ddcfda5;hpb=d90c8a75da90925a51a587f7bd4d9c494256f68a;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f1a556d..b7953e8 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,11 +1,54 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.1.0: - * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock. (COMPILE and - COMPILE-FILE still do.) - * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of symbol-macros - by lexical bindings. - * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in several - cases. +changes relative to sbcl-1.1.2: + * bug fix: fasls are now once again directly executable (on platforms + supporting shebang lines, with a suitably-installed sbcl). + +changes in sbcl-1.1.2 relative to sbcl-1.1.1: + * notice: System requirements for SBCL on Microsoft Windows: Windows NT 5.1 + or newer (Windows XP, Server 2003) is required. Support for Windows 2000 + (NT 5.0) is no longer being maintained. + * notice: Starting with this version, SBCL on Windows no longer supports + building with disabled thread support. + * enhancement: frlocks have been added to SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module. + * enhancement: New feature sb-dynamic-core allows the runtime to be + rebuilt or relocated without requiring changes to the core file on + all linkage table platforms. Required on Windows. (Thanks to Anton + Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: Console I/O streams use UCS-2. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: I/O on Windows unnamed pipes is interruptible + asynchronously using interrupt-thread, timers when running on Windows NT + version 6.1 or newer (Windows 7, Server 2008 R2). (Thanks to Anton + Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: Support for the experimental safepoint-based stop-the-world + protocol on the PowerPC platform. + * bug fix: Non-blocking reads from the Windows console were not necessarily + non-blocking. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. (lp#308923) + * bug fix: stability of threads on Windows has been improved upon through + an updated stop-the-world protocol (thanks to Anton Kovalenko). + +changes in sbcl-1.1.1 relative to sbcl-1.1.0: + * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock. + (COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE still do.) + * optimization: the SPARC backend now supports the precise generational + (GENCGC) garbage collection. Enabled by default on Solaris/SPARC and + Linux/SPARC. Thanks to Raymond Toy (via CMUCL). + * enhancement: add experimental support for the SB-THREAD feature and the + timer facility on Windows. Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko. + Threads are enabled by default, and this version of SBCL is considered + to be the last and final release to officially support building with + threads disabled. + * optimization: The compiler no longer rotates loops in some cases where + this transformation actually lead to worse code being generated. + * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of + symbol-macros by lexical bindings. + * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in + several cases. + * bug fix: SB-EXT:GC-LOGFILE signaled an error when no logfile was set. + (thanks to SANO Masatoshi) + * bug fix: PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING performed non-native parsing when + :JUNK-ALLOWED was true. + * bug fix: type derivation inferred overly conservative types for + unions of array types. (lp#1050768) changes in sbcl-1.1.0 relative to sbcl-1.0.58: * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling