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+changes in sbcl-0.8.19 relative to sbcl-0.8.18:
+  * new port: SBCL now works in native 64-bit mode on x86-64/Linux
+    platform. The port supports 61-bit fixnums, large memory spaces
+    and reloading shared object files.
+  * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
+    supported on ppc/Darwin in addition to the previously supported
+    platforms.
+  * bug fix: invalid :DEFAULT-INITARGS are detected in compiled calls
+    to MAKE-INSTANCE.
+  * bug fix: defaulted initargs are passed to INITIALIZE-INSTANCE and
+    SHARED-INITIALIZE methods from compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE.
+  * bug fix: COERCE to (COMPLEX FLOAT) of a complex number no longer
+    produces an error.  (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+  * bug fix: NAMESTRING on pathnames with :WILD components in their
+    directories works correctly.  (thanks to Artem V. Andreev)
+  * fixed bug 125: compiler preserves identity of closures. (reported
+    by Gabe Garza)
+  * build fix: fixed the dependence on *LOAD-PATHNAME* and
+    *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* being absolute pathnames.
+  * on x86 compiler partially supports stack allocation of dynamic-extent
+    closures.
+  * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
+    ** encoding and decoding errors are now much more robustly
+       handled; it should now be possible to recover even from invalid
+       input or output to the terminal.  (thanks to Teemu Kalvas)
+    ** provided a first cut at implementing STRING-TO-OCTETS and
+       OCTETS-TO-STRING.  (thanks to Robert J. Macomber)
+    ** altered the SB-MD5 contributed module slightly, changing the
+       interface just enough for it to be supportable for builds where
+       lisp characters are not eight bits.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** the FORMATTER-generated functions for ~V[ conditionals require
+       the correct number of arguments.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.18 relative to sbcl-0.8.17:
+  * new feature: reloading changed shared object files with
+    LOAD-SHARED-OBJECT now causes the new definitions to take effect.
+  * new feature: references to foreign variables and functions
+    can now be compiled and loaded before the corresponding shared 
+    object file is loaded, as long as the foreign definitions are
+    available at runtime.
+  * Solaris 10 (aka SunOS 5.10) on the SPARC platform is now
+    supported.  (thanks to Dan Debertin)
+  * SB-ALIEN enums can now be represented in Lisp by any symbols, not
+    just keywords.  (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+  * fixed bug #331: structure-class instances corresponding to
+    DEFSTRUCT forms are now created eagerly.
+  * fixed bug #345: backtraces from calls to undefined functions work
+    on x86 as well. Related bug #61 is now also partially fixed on x86
+    (backtraces from throws to unknown catch tags.)
+  * bug fix: lambda-list parsing is now stricter vrt. order and number
+    of lambda-list keywords.
+  * bug fix: as specified by AMOP, an error is signalled if a
+    class-option appears multiple times in a DEFCLASS form. (reported
+    by Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: RANDOM can be compiled when the compiler derives the type
+    of its numeric argument as a disjoint set of small integers.
+    (reported by Paul Dietz)
+  * bug fix: starting a core saved with shared objects loaded when
+    those objects are not available no longer causes threaded SBCL to 
+    hang. (reported by Sean Ross)
+  * bug fix: evaluated FUNCTION no longer bypasses encapsulation (eg.
+    TRACE).
+  * bug fix: (SETF MACRO-FUNCTION) now accepts an optional environment
+    argument, which must always be NIL. (reported by Kalle Niemitalo)
+  * bug fix: printing 1.0d+23 no longer results in an error.
+    (reported by Rolf Wester for CMUCL; bug fix from Raymond Toy)
+  * bug fix: structure slot setters preserve evaluation order. (thanks
+    to Gabor Melis)
+  * fixed some bugs related to Unicode integration:
+    ** RUN-PROGRAM can allow its child to take input from a Lisp
+       stream.  (reported by Stefan Scholl)
+    ** ASDF-INSTALL successfully downloads .tar.gz files in all
+       locales.  (reported by Ken Causey)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** INCF, DECF and REMF evaluate their place form as specified in
+       CLtS 5.1.3.
+    ** FORMATTER expands ~{ ~} iteration directives with V or #
+       parameters correctly.
+    ** FORMATTER deals with the ~@[ ~] conditional directive where the
+       consequent uses no arguments correctly.
+    ** the system has a partial understanding of the (COMPLEX RATIO)
+       type specifier.
+    ** UPGRADED-COMPLEX-PART-TYPE obeys the lattice upgrading rules
+       required.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.17 relative to sbcl-0.8.16:
+  * new feature: a build-time option (controlled by the :SB-UNICODE
+    keyword feature, enabled by default) for building the system with
+    support for the entire 21-bit character space defined by the
+    Unicode consortium.
+  * new feature: the system now has rudimentary external-format
+    support; the primary user-visible change at this time is that
+    characters with the high bit set (such as lower-case-e-acute) will
+    print correctly to a terminal in a UTF-8 environment.
+  * minor incompatible change: BASE-CHAR no longer names a class;
+    however, CHARACTER continues to do so, as required by ANSI.
+  * minor incompatible change: SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-FOO* variables
+    are no longer supported, and SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
+    has been moved to the SB-EXT package (temporarily re-exported from
+    SB-DEBUG).
+  * minor incompatible change: SB-C::*COMPILER-ERROR-PRINT-FOO* variables
+    are no longer supported: use SB-EXT:*COMPILER-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST*
+    instead. 
+  * fixed bug #351: better error-handlind and reporting for malformed
+    LET and LET* forms.
+  * fixed bug #350: bignum-printing is now more memory-efficient,
+    allowing printing of very large bignums, eg. (expt 2 10000000).
+    (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * fixed bug #302: better primitive-type selection for intersection
+    types.
+  * fixed bug #308: non-graphic characters now all have names, as
+    required.  (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: redefining a class with different superclasses now correctly
+    removes it from the direct-subclasses of its previous superclasses.
+    (reported by David Morse)
+  * bug fix: (SETF FIND-CLASS) using a FORWARD-REFERENCED-CLASS as the
+    new value now works. (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: correct canonicalization of multiple non-standard slot
+    options in DEFCLASS as per AMOP 5.4.2. (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: SB-MOP:CLASS-PROTOTYPE now signals an error if the class
+    is not yet finalized, as required by AMOP. (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: SB-MOP:ALLOCATE-INSTANCE method for instances of BUILT-IN-CLASS
+    now exists, an signals an error.
+  * bug fix: duplicate LOOP variable bindings now signal PROGRAM-ERROR
+    during macroexpansion for non-iteration variables as well. (reported 
+    by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: Cyclic structures and unprintable objects in compiler
+    messages no longer cause errors. (reported by Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: READ, READ-PRESERVING-WHITESPACE, READ-DELIMITED-LIST,
+    and READ-FROM-STRING all now return a primary value of NIL if
+    *READ-SUPPRESS* is true.  (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: Default value of EOF-ERROR-P in READ-FROM-STRING is true.
+    (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: ERROR now signals a TYPE-ERROR if the arguments to ERROR
+    do not designate a condition.  (reported by Bruno Haible for
+    CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: UNINTERN, USE-PACKAGE, IMPORT and EXPORT all signal an
+    SB-EXT:NAME-CONFLICT condition (subtype of PACKAGE-ERROR) in the
+    name conflict situations in CLHS 11.1.1.2.5, and provide a restart
+    permitting resolution in favour of any of the conflicting symbols.
+    (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: EQUAL compiler optimizations is less aggressive on
+    strings which can potentially compare true despite having distinct
+    specialized array element types.
+  * bug fix: unit enumerations can be defined without dividing by
+    zero.  (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
+  * FORMAT compile-time argument count checking has been enhanced.
+    (report from Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
+  * a partial workaround for the bug 262: the compiler does not try to
+    inline-expand a local function doing RETURN-FROM from a deleted
+    BLOCK. (thanks to Peter Denno for the bug report and to David
+    Wragg for the simple test case)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** RENAME-PACKAGE allows all package designators as new package
+       names.
+    ** constraint propagation and lambda variable substitution are
+       more cautious in dealing with partially deleted code.
+    ** compiler sometimes lost reoptimization passes.
+    ** CERROR, given a condition as condition designator, passes its
+       remaining arguments to the continue format control without
+       complaint.
+    ** Case-altering FORMAT directives work correctly on non-ASCII
+       characters.
+    ** The REAL type specifier handles bounds outside the floating
+       point ranges without signalling FLOATING-POINT-OVERFLOW.
+    ** Functions with IR1-transformations can create intercomponent
+       references to global functions.
+    ** NIL parameter to the FORMAT directive ~^ means `unsupplied
+       parameter'.
+    ** FORMAT ~R treats a nil value for its first parameter correctly.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.16 relative to sbcl-0.8.15:
+  * enhancement: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
+    supported on x86/NetBSD and sparc/Linux in addition to the previously
+    supported platforms.
+  * bug fix: on some platforms repeated installations caused multiple
+    copies of HTML documentation to be installed -- should not happen
+    any more. (reported by Stefan Scholl)
+  * bug fix: parsing self-recursive alien record types multiple times
+    no longer causes infinite recursion. (reported by Thomas F. Burdick,
+    original patch by Helmut Eller for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: stack-exhaustion detection works now on NetBSD as well.
+    (thanks to Richard Kreuter)
+  * bug fix: defining classes whose accessors are methods on existing
+    generic functions in other (locked) packages no longer signals
+    bogus package lock violations. (reported by François-René Rideau)
+  * bug fix: special variables as DEFMETHOD parameters no longer have
+    associated bogus type declarations. (reported by David Wragg and
+    Bruno Haible)
+  * bug fix: read-write consistency on streams of element-type
+    (SIGNED-BYTE N) for N > 32.  (reported by Bruno Haible for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: redefiniton of the only method of a generic function with
+    no DEFGENERIC no longer emits a full WARNING.  In addition,
+    redefinition of generic functions with no DEFGENERIC to an
+    incompatible lambda list now signals an error.  (thanks to Zach
+    Beane)
+  * bug fix: DEFGENERIC now works even when there's a function of the
+    same name in an enclosing lexical environment.  (thanks to Zach
+    Beane)
+  * fixed compiler failure, caused by instrumenting code during
+    IR1-optimization.  (Debian bug report #273606 by Gabor Melis)
+  * optimization: added loop analysis and improved register allocation
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** POSITION on displaced vectors with non-zero displacement
+       returns the right answer.
+    ** (SIMPLE-STRING) is a valid type specifier for sequence
+       creators.
+    ** *PRINT-LEVEL* handling for slotless structures is pedantically
+       correct.
+    ** PPRINT-INDENT accepts a request for an indentation of any REAL.
+    ** PPRINT-TAB (and the FORMAT ~T directive) now indent by the
+       correct amounts.
+    ** The justification version of the FORMAT ~< directive treats
+       non-zero minpad parameter correctly.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.15 relative to sbcl-0.8.14:
+  * incompatible change: SB-INT:*BEFORE-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* and
+    SB-INT:*AFTER-SAVE-INITIALIZATIONS* have been renamed
+    SB-EXT:*SAVE-HOOKS* and SB-EXT:*INIT-HOOKS*, and are now part of
+    the supported interface.
+  * new feature: Single-stepping of code compiled with DEBUG 2 or
+    higher and (> DEBUG (MAX SPACE SPEED)) is now possible.
+  * new feature: saving cores with foreign code loaded is now
+    supported on x86/FreeBSD, x86/Linux, and sparc/SunOS. (based on
+    Timothy Moore's work for CMUCL)
+  * bug fix: DEFTYPE lambda-list parsing now binds unsupplied keyword
+    parameters to * instead of NIL if no initform is supplied.
+    (reported by Johan Bockgaard)
+  * bug fix: DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO lambda-list parsing now binds
+    correctly when FUNCALL appears as the car of the form. Note:
+    despite this FUNCALL forms are not currently subject to
+    compiler-macro expansion. (port of Raymond Toy's fix for the
+    same from CMUCL, reported by Johan Bockgaard)
+  * bug fix: FOR ... ON ... -clauses in LOOP now work on dotted lists
+    (thanks for Teemu Kalvas)
+  * bug fix: in FORMAT ~^ inside ~:{ now correctly steps to the next
+    case instead of terminating the iteration (thanks for Julian
+    Squires, Sean Champ and Raymond Toy)
+  * bug fix: incorrect expansion of defgeneric that caused a style
+    warning. (thanks for Zach Beane)
+  * bug fix: slot accessor effective method computation works properly
+    for classes with multiple non-standard applicable methods on
+    SB-MOP:SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS.  (reported by Ralf Mattes)
+  * on x86 compiler supports stack allocation of results of LIST and
+    LIST*, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT. (based on
+    CMUCL implementation by Gerd Moellmann)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** FORMAT strings with both the ~<~:;~> form of the justification
+       directive and pretty-printing directives cause an error.
+
 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.
+  * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY, 
+    SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user 
+    manual. 
+  * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
+  * 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.
@@ -15,10 +277,38 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
     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)
+  * bug fix: pathnames with relative directory components can be
+    represented relative to default pathnames.
   * 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