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+changes relative to sbcl-1.1.14:
+  * new feature: the iterative spilling/coloring register allocator developed
+    by Alexandra Barchunova during Google Summer of Code 2013 is now merged
+    in.  By default, it only activates for functions that optimize with
+    (speed 3) and (> speed compilation-speed), but setting
+    sb-regalloc:*register-allocation-method* to :iterative forces its
+    execution.  The previous behaviour can be obtained by instead setting that
+    variable to :greedy.  Thanks again to Google for their support, and, more
+    crucially, to Alexandra Barchunova for her hard work.
+  * optimization: make-array with known element-type and unknown dimensions is
+    much faster.
+  * optimization: make-array with unknown element-type is faster as well.
+    (lp#1004501)
+  * enhancement: sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die on Windows now accepts
+    :application-type argument, which can be :console or :gui. :gui allows
+    having GUI applications without an automatically appearing console window.
+  * enhancement: reduced conservativism on GENCGC platforms:
+    conservative roots must be valid-looking tagged pointers or point
+    within a code object, not merely point to within the allocated part
+    of a page, in order to pin a page.
+  * enhancement: support for "Mac Roman" external format.
+  * enhancement: encapsulation of named generic functions now happens without
+    altering the identity of the function bound to the name.
+  * bug fix: Windows applications without the console window no longer misbehave.
+    (patch by Wilfredo Velazquez, lp#1256034).
+  * bug fix: modular arithmetic optimizations do not stumble on dead branches
+    with bad constants. (reported by Douglas Katzman)
+  * bug fix: CLISP can be used again as a cross-compilation host.
+    (Thanks to Vasily Postnicov, lp#1261451)
+  * bug fix: run-program crashed with :directory nil. (lp#1265077)
+
 changes in sbcl-1.1.14 relative to sbcl-1.1.13:
   * optimization: complicated TYPEP tests are less opaque to the type
     propagation pass. (lp#1229340)