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+changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
+  * incompatible change: the internal functions
+    SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
+    logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
+    to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO.  Modular arithmetic should be used
+    instead of the old functions.
+  * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
+    function names now appear in backtraces.  (based on Helmut Eller's
+    work for CMUCL)
+  * documentation: networking interface SB-BSD-SOCKETS' documentation
+    has been integrated into the user manual.
+  * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
+    even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
+    ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
+    detected.
+  * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
+    routines are more informative.  (thanks to Brian Downing)
+  * bug fix: mutually referent alien structures now work correctly.
+    (reported by Rick Taube)
+  * bug fix: structures defined by WITH-ALIEN can be referred to
+    within other definitions in the same WITH-ALIEN.
+  * bug fix: division operators (MOD, TRUNCATE and the like) with
+    constant zero divisors and integer dividends no longer generate
+    left shifts.
+  * bug fix: provide default methods for INPUT-STREAM-P and
+    OUTPUT-STREAM-P specialized on SB-GRAY:FUNDAMENTAL-STREAM.
+  * bug fix: improve the detection and resolution of MOP metacycles
+    (where effective method computation depends on the generic function
+    having its effective method computed).  (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: pass the right initargs to :BEFORE or :AFTER methods on
+    SHARED-INITIALIZE or INITIALIZE-INSTANCE in optimized
+    MAKE-INSTANCE constructors.  (reported by Axel Schairer for cmucl)
+  * optimization: in taking the GCD of bignums, reduce the two bignums
+    to approximately the same size (using Euclid's algorithm) before
+    applying the more sophisticated binary GCD.  (thanks to Juho
+    Snellman)
+  * optimization: COUNT on bitvectors now operates word-at-a-time.
+  * optimization: ASH with a positive, but not necessarily constant,
+    (leftwards) shift, when in a modular context, is compiled to a
+    hardware shift.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** FORMAT variable parameters ("~V<char>") are defaulted properly
+       if the corresponding argument is NIL.
+    ** FORMAT directives accepting a minpad parameter treat negative
+       values as 0.
+    ** literal commas as character parameters to FORMAT directives are
+       parsed correctly.
+    ** literal spaces directly after ~<Newline> directives within a
+       format-logical-block (~:< ~@:>) do not induce :FILL-style
+       conditional newlines.
+    ** PRINT-UNREADABLE-OBJECT inserts spaces as specified (and only
+       as specified: it no longer includes conditional newlines).
+    ** PRINC-TO-STRING binds *PRINT-READABLY* to NIL (as well as
+       *PRINT-ESCAPE*).
+    ** PPRINT-LOGICAL-BLOCK signals a TYPE-ERROR if its :PREFIX or
+       :PER-LINE-PREFIX argument does not evaluate to a string.
+
 changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
   * new feature: SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS. See the "Package Locks" section of
     the manual for details; for now, package locks can be disabled by
     removing :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS in customize-target-features.lisp, but
     if no major problems are found then it is likely that they will be
     compiled in unconditionally.
+  * major incompatible change: LOAD-FOREIGN and LOAD-1-FOREIGN are now
+    unsupported operators on all platforms.  To load a shared library
+    into SBCL, use SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT.  To load a non-shared
+    object file, link it into a shared library outside of SBCL and
+    load it using SB-ALIEN:LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT.  (incidentally fixes
+    bug #79)
+  * bug workaround: ROOM T and the GC were not working together
+    reliably, because invariants expected by the SB!VM:INSTANCE-USAGE
+    reporting facility aren't preserved. That reporting has been
+    disabled, so now until and unless someone figures out how to make it
+    work reliably with the current GC, (ROOM T) is equivalent to (ROOM).
   * minor incompatible change: as threatened around sbcl-0.8.0, the
     home package of MOP-related symbols is now SB-MOP, not SB-PCL.
     The symbols are also exported from SB-PCL for backwards
     compatibility, but more so than before SB-PCL should be treated as
     an implementation-internal package.
+  * fasl format changed: SBCL 0.8.13 fasls are incompatible with those
+    of earlier versions
   * the SB-SPROF contrib now works on (most) non-x86 architectures.
     It is known as of this release not to work on the Alpha, however.
   * fixed bug #167: errors signalled due to illegal syntax in method 
@@ -39,7 +109,13 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.13 relative to sbcl-0.8.12:
     user-defined methods on SLOT-BOUNDP-USING-CLASS and (SETF
     SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS), and no longer causes errors with
     non-standard SLOT-DEFINITION-ALLOCATION values.
+  * fixed bugs: various race conditions handling exiting threads.  
+    CL-PPCRE's thread torture test now passes.
+  * fixed arguably-a-bug: GC time proportional to number of threads in 
+    system even when most of them are idle
   * optimization: improved performance of BIT and SBIT on bit-vectors.
+  * .fasl file incompatibility: The fasl file version number has
+    been incremented because of changes associated with package locks.
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.12 relative to sbcl-0.8.11:
   * minor incompatible change: the system no longer provides