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@@ -1352,6 +1352,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
   * minor incompatible change: TRUENAME now considers the truename of
     a file naming a directory to be the pathname with :DIRECTORY
     component indicating that directory.
+  * minor incompatible change: a NAMED clause in the extended form of
+    LOOP no longer causes a BLOCK named NIL to surround the LOOP.  The
+    reason for the previous behaviour is unclear.
   * more systematization and improvement of CLOS and MOP conformance
     in PCL (thanks to Gerd Moellman and Pierre Mai):
     ** the standard ANSI CL generic function NO-NEXT-METHOD is now
@@ -1376,28 +1379,31 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.10 relative to sbcl-0.7.9:
     ** COMPUTE-SLOTS :AROUND now assigns locations sequentially based
        on the order returned by the primary method for classes of
        class STANDARD-CLASS;
+    ** DEFINE-METHOD-COMBINATION now works with the :ARGUMENTS option.
   * fixed some bugs shown by Paul Dietz' test suite:
-    ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY
+    ** DOLIST puts its body in TAGBODY;
     ** SET-EXCLUSIVE-OR sends arguments to :TEST function in the
-       correct order
+       correct order;
     ** MULTIPLE-VALUE-SETQ evaluates side-effectful places before
-       value producing form
+       value producing form;
     ** if more variables are given to PROGV than values, extra
-       variables are bound and made to have no value
+       variables are bound and made to have no value;
     ** NSUBSTITUTE on list arguments gets the right answer with
-       :FROM-END
+       :FROM-END;
     ** ELT signals an error of type TYPE-ERROR when the index argument
        is not a valid sequence index;
     ** LOOP signals (at macroexpansion time) an error of type
        PROGRAM-ERROR when duplicate variable names are found;
-    ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly (thanks to Matthew Danish)
+    ** LOOP supports DOWNTO and ABOVE properly; (thanks to Matthew Danish)
     ** FUNCALL of special-operators now cause an error of type
        UNDEFINED-FUNCTION;
     ** PSETQ now works as required in the presence of side-effecting
        symbol-macro places;
-    ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument
-    ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM (thanks to
+    ** NCONC accepts any object as its last argument;
+    ** :COUNT argument to sequence functions may be BIGNUM; (thanks to
        Gerd Moellman)
+    ** Loop-package does not require a package to be explicitely
+       specified;
   * fixed bug 166: compiler preserves "there is a way to go"
     invariant when deleting code.
   * fixed bug 172: macro lambda lists with required arguments after