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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2234,18 +2234,50 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.7 relative to sbcl-0.8.6:
     ** VALUES tranformer lost derived type.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
+  * minor incompatible change: parsing of namestrings on a physical
+    (Unix) host has changed; numbers after the final #\. in a
+    namestring are no longer interpreted as a version field.  This is
+    intented to be largely invisible to the user, except that the
+    meaning of the namestring "*.*.*" has changed: it now refers to a
+    pathname with :TYPE :WILD :NAME #<pattern "*.*">.  This namestring
+    should usually be replaced by 
+      (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild)
+    with the added benefit that this is more likely to be portable.
+    As a consequence of this change, the :IF-EXISTS :NEW-VERSION
+    option to OPEN now signals an error if the file being opened
+    exists; this may have an impact on existing code.
+  * fixed bug 190: RUN-PROGRAM should now work properly, respecting
+    signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
+    Darwin).  (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
+    the error)
+  * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
+    Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
+    (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
   * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
     second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
     (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+  * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
+    type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
+    PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
+    stream.  (reported by Peter Graves)
+  * bug fix: the garbage collector now has much better locality
+    behaviour, and in particular no longer treats all memory as being
+    exhausted when many small objects point to each other in a deeply
+    recursive manner.
+  * bug fix: arrays specialized on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 15) are now
+    recognized as being TYPEP their class.
+  * bug fix: the PUSHNEW documentation string has been corrected.
+    (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+  * bug fix: defaulting of the value for the last of an atypically
+    large number of multiple values being bound was not being
+    performed correctly on the Alpha or PPC platforms
   * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
     (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the x86 backend.
   * optimization: SEARCH on simple-base-strings can now be open-coded.
     (see also contrib/compiler-extras.lisp for inspiration for
     teaching the compiler about the Boyer-Moore algorithm).
-  * bug fix: functions =, /=, <, <=, >, >= did not check the argument
-    type when called with 1 argument; PEEK-CHAR checked type of
-    PEEK-TYPE only after having read first character from a
-    stream. (reported by Peter Graves)
+  * value, returned by MAX (and MIN) called with several EQUALP, but
+    not EQL, arguments now does not depend on compiler settings.
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** in stack analysis liveness information is propagated from
        non-local entry points.
@@ -2262,6 +2294,29 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
        or not a character is whitespace.
     ** MERGE-PATHNAMES handles the case when the pathname does not
        specify a name while the default-pathname specifies a version.
+    ** Pathnames now stand a better chance of respecting print/read
+       consistency.
+    ** Attempting to use standardized file system operators with a
+       pathname with invalid :DIRECTORY components signals a
+       FILE-ERROR.
+    ** OPEN :DIRECTION :IO no longer fails to work on non-existent
+       files.
+    ** DIRECTORY on logical pathnames is more correct.
+    ** CLEAR-INPUT, CLEAR-OUTPUT, FINISH-OUTPUT and FORCE-OUTPUT
+       signal a TYPE-ERROR if their argument is not a stream.
+    ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE signal a TYPE-ERROR if their stream
+       designator argument does not designate a stream.
+    ** OPEN-STREAM-P and INPUT-STREAM-P on synonym streams work by
+       examining the synonym.
+    ** STREAM-ELEMENT-TYPE and FRESH-LINE on broadcast-streams now
+       work as specified.
+    ** OPEN and WITH-OPEN-STREAM allow opening streams with
+       element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
+  * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
+    (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
+    assembler and linker.  (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles