X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=c9e7279e1c0a68dd320bc07065facb156ea35552;hb=5e92e9ed61903658015c2a75c79a32ad41dbd29d;hp=3f57aca846cfc474c7ba9bf198ea4c34449e3133;hpb=13adeede88d026548e4d2da497f93d8024706a2b;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3f57aca..c9e7279 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,10 +1,68 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*- +changes in sbcl-0.9.5 relative to sbcl-0.9.4: + * new feature: timers based on Zach Beane's excellent timer package + * added support for the following external formats: koi8-u, + x-mac-cyrillic, cp437, cp850, cp852, cp855, cp857, cp860, cp861, + cp862, cp863, cp864, cp865, cp866, cp869, cp874, iso-8859-2, + iso-8859-3, iso-8859-4, iso-8859-5, iso-8859-6, iso-8859-7, + iso-8859-8, iso-8859-9, iso-8859-10, iso-8859-11, iso-8859-13, + iso-8859-14, cp1250, cp1251, cp1252, cp1253, cp1254, + cp1255,cp1256, cp1257, cp1258 (contributed by Ivan Boldyrev) + * incompatible change: a threaded SBCL will no longer revert to + non-threaded mode on non-NPTL systems, but refuse to start entirely. + * bug fix: interrupts are disabled until startup is complete; no + more sigsegvs when receiving a signal to soon + * optimization: faster 32-bit SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE on non-x86/ppc + platforms + * bug fix: add a workaround for the memory randomization features in + Linux kernels >= 2.6.12 that interfere with SBCL's memory maps. This + workaround will only be in effect on systems with the proc filesystem + mounted. + * bug fix: printing objects of type HASH-TABLE signals a + PRINT-NOT-READABLE error when *READ-EVAL* is NIL. (reported by + Faré Rideau) + * bug fix: GET-INTERNAL-REAL-TIME now works even for processes that + have been running for over 50 days. (reported by Gilbert Baumann) + * bug fix: the logic for getting names of functions gets less + confused when confronded with alternate-metaclass + funcallable-instances. (reported by Cyrus Harmon) + * bug fix: FUNCTIONP and (LAMBDA (X) (TYPEP X 'FUNCTION)) are now + consistent, even on internal alternate-metaclass objects. + * bug fix: SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-OBJECT is now a subclass of + STANDARD-OBJECT, as required by AMOP. + * bug fix: the classes STANDARD-CLASS and + SB-MOP:FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-CLASS are now compatible in the + SB-MOP:VALIDATE-SUPERCLASS sense; there remains a constraint about + finalized classes and the FUNCTION class. + * bug fix: the SB-MOP:METAOBJECT class is now implemented as + specified by AMOP. + * bug fix: flush closure information collected by physical + environment analysis prepass before the main pass. (bug reported + by Vasile Rotaru) + * threads + ** bug fix: parent thread now can be gc'ed even with a live + child thread + ** bug fix: binding a special with PROGV to no value is not + the same as that symbol not having been bound (thanks to + Hannu Koivisto) + ** bug fix: binding specials is thread safe (thanks to + Hannu Koivisto) + ** bug fix: interrupt handlers are now per-process, RUN-PROGRAM + and SB-SPROF do not die with 'no handler for signal XX in + interrupt_handle_now(..)' anymore + ** bug fix: WITH-TIMEOUT works with multiple running threads + * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: + ** ENSURE-GENERIC-FUNCTION should take a method class object for + the :method-class keyword argument. + changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3: * new port: the Solaris operating system on x86 processors is now mostly supported, though some rough edges in the environment remain. (thanks to Daisuke Homma) * enhancement: SBCL on MIPS platforms now has a much larger dynamic space for its heap. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer) + * optimization: SBCL on MIPS platforms now supports dynamic-extent + closures. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer) * minor incompatible change: eof selects abort in the debugger. * minor incompatible change: *INVOKE-DEBUGGER-HOOK* is run before *DEBUGGER-HOOK* => *DEBUGGER-HOOK* is not run when the debugger @@ -18,6 +76,8 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3: with non-standard methods for COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS no longer make invalid assumptions about method precedence order. (reported by Bruno Haible) + * bug fix: TRUNCATE now correctly signals division by zero on MIPS + platforms. (thanks to Thiemo Seufer) * bug fix: degree sign () could not be encoded in KOI8-R. * bug fix: correct pathname printing with printer escaping is on. (thanks to Kevin Reid) @@ -37,6 +97,14 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3: * bug fix: signal handling and triggering gc do not conflict directly anymore, in particular a high frequency sb-sprof does not prevent gc from running + * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now uses a more reasonable + approximation for timezone and DST information between the + universal time epoch and the smallest negative 32-bit time_t. + * bug fix: ENCODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME no longer errors when passed the + year 1899 so long as the encoded time is non-negative. + * bug fix: on the x86 platform, SB-ROTATE-BYTE:ROTATE-BYTE returns + the correct answer for non-constant rotate amounts when performing + an inline 32-bit rotation. * threads ** bug fix: RELEASE-FOREGROUND doesn't choke on session lock if there is only one thread in the session @@ -48,10 +116,23 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.4 relative to sbcl-0.9.3: ** bug fix: one less memory fault in INTERRUPT-THREAD, again ** bug fix: gc and INTERRUPT-THREAD don't hang when the RT signal queue is full + ** bug fix: finished threads are gc'ed properly * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite: ** CALL-NEXT-METHOD signals an error (in safe code) when the call has arguments with a different set of applicable methods from the orignal arguments. + ** The type error thrown by MAP now has a correct expected-type + cell. + ** DISASSEMBLE now throws a TYPE-ERROR when its argument does not + name a compiled function. + ** Three MISC tests where a large bignum was improperly coerced to + a float that couldn't represent that bignum during type + derivation were fixed. + ** SUBTYPEP can now handle types involving the negation of a + list-form FUNCTION type. + ** SUBTYPEP also now handles certain COMPLEX type specifiers such + as (COMPLEX (AND RATIO (NOT FIXNUM))). + ** READ-BYTE and WRITE-BYTE no longer take stream designators. changes in sbcl-0.9.3 relative to sbcl-0.9.2: * New feature: Experimental support for bivalent streams: streams