X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=e717e473bad4616982962a3d67373df26011fccd;hb=4150a9f9936714c8a04fc2cd8ae6df26ec5f7db8;hp=a4f9d842eda298f0a1201466cefaf5dba02fc305;hpb=4b25bb8e20bf3c1419a11b7d4cfefa23e4f3279b;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index a4f9d84..e717e47 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,221 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56: +changes relative to sbcl-1.1.4: + * minor incompatible change: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING no longer loops + by default. + * new feature: package local nicknames. See manual for details. + * new feature: SB-EXT:MAP-DIRECTORY provides a powerful interface for + directory traversal: it is the backend used by SBCL for CL:DIRECTORY. + * enhancement: easier to use restarts for resolving name-conflicts + resulting from IMPORT, EXPORT, or USE-PACKAGE. + * enhancement: variant DEFPACKAGE forms now signal a full error with + restarts provided for resolving the situation. (lp#891351) + * enhancement: by setting SB-EXT:*ON-PACKAGE-VARIANCE* appropriately variant + DEFPACKAGE forms can now signal a full error with restarts provided for + resolving the situation. See manual for details. (lp#891351) + * enhancement: make-random-state now uses CryptGenRandom as a seed on Windows. + (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) (lp#1102748) + * enhancement: backtrace improvements + ** secondary CLOS dispatch functions have better debug names (lp#503081) + ** easier to read method names in backtraces. See + SB-DEBUG:*METHOD-FRAME-STYLE*. + ** SB-DEBUG:PRINT-BACKTRACE and SB-DEBUG:LIST-BACKTRACE are available as + forwards-compatible replacements for SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE and + SB-DEBUG:BACKTRACE-AS-LIST. + ** SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS** has been deprecated, as the same + information is available in less intrusive form as frame annotations. + * enhancement: SB-POSIX now provides MAP-ANON. + * enhancement: test-suite results are colorized, failures in red, unexpected + success in green. Works on Windows and on terminals with ANSI escape code + support. Can be disabled with --no-color. + * optimization: SB-CONCURRENCY:QUEUE implementation is more efficient. + (thanks to James M. Lawrence) + * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings from RESTART-CASE + macroexpansion (lp#1113859) + * bug fix: no more unused variable style warnings when loading + sb-bsd-sockets.asd (lp#1114681) + * bug fix: deleting a package removes it from implementation-package + lists of other packages. + * bug fix: SB-SPROF:WITH-PROFILING is now usable in the Slime REPL on Darwin. + This does not fix the occasional "interrupt already pending" issue, though. + * bug fix: (setf (documentation 'x 'function)) and + (setf (documentation #'x t)) set documentation in different places. + (regression since 1.0.43.63) + * bug fix: build on newer glibc. (lp#1095036) + +changes in sbcl-1.1.4 relative to sbcl-1.1.3: + * optimization: LOOP expressions using "of-type character" have slightly + more efficient expansions. + * bug fix: very long (or infinite) constant lists in DOLIST do not result + in very long compile times or heap exhaustion anymore. (lp#1095488) + * bug fix: `#3(1) is read as #(1 1 1), not as #(1). (lp#1095918) + * bug fix: adjust-array ignored :initial-element for simple-vectors. + (lp#1096359) + * bug fix: optimizations to MAKE-INSTANCE with literal list initargs no + longer cause infinite loops (on circular data) or violate eqlity + constraints. (lp#1099708) + * bug fix: FIRST was not being open coded. (regression from 1.1.0) + +changes in sbcl-1.1.3 relative to sbcl-1.1.2: + * enhancement: warnings about bad locale settings, LANG, LC_CTYPE, etc. + (lp#727625) + * enhancement: support for C-c to interrupt the foreground thread + on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: STDCALL alien callbacks. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: Safepoint builds on POSIX platforms can now optionally be + built without pseudo-atomic sequences and their run-time overhead. + * enhancement: Threads created outside of Lisp can enter Lisp through + alien callbacks and appear as Lisp threads for the duration of that + function invocation. On safepoint builds only. + * enhancement: Miscellaneous improvements to namestrings and underlying + calls to OS functions for file system access on Windows. (Thanks to + Anton Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: The MSI installer support for Windows now uses Windows + Installer XML at least version 3.5 and includes various usability + improvements. (Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: The sb-bsd-sockets contrib now supports non-blocking-mode + on Windows. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: The Windows backend now supports the x86-64 platform. + (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) + * bug fix: fasls are now once again directly executable (on platforms + supporting shebang lines, with a suitably-installed sbcl). + * bug fix: make.sh --help no longer runs clean.sh. (lp#937001) + * bug fix: Fix CAS access to slots of direct instances of structure classes + in the presence of subclasses sharing the same conc-name. + * bug fix: Logical pathname namestrings on Windows have been changed to + be lower-case, to minimize differences between POSIX and Windows. + +changes in sbcl-1.1.2 relative to sbcl-1.1.1: + * notice: System requirements for SBCL on Microsoft Windows: Windows NT 5.1 + or newer (Windows XP, Server 2003) is required. Support for Windows 2000 + (NT 5.0) is no longer being maintained. + * notice: Starting with this version, SBCL on Windows no longer supports + building with disabled thread support. + * enhancement: frlocks have been added to SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module. + * enhancement: New feature sb-dynamic-core allows the runtime to be + rebuilt or relocated without requiring changes to the core file on + all linkage table platforms. Required on Windows. (Thanks to Anton + Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: Console I/O streams use UCS-2. (Thanks to Anton Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: I/O on Windows unnamed pipes is interruptible + asynchronously using interrupt-thread, timers when running on Windows NT + version 6.1 or newer (Windows 7, Server 2008 R2). (Thanks to Anton + Kovalenko.) + * enhancement: Support for the experimental safepoint-based stop-the-world + protocol on the PowerPC platform. + * bug fix: Non-blocking reads from the Windows console were not necessarily + non-blocking. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. (lp#308923) + * bug fix: stability of threads on Windows has been improved upon through + an updated stop-the-world protocol (thanks to Anton Kovalenko). + +changes in sbcl-1.1.1 relative to sbcl-1.1.0: + * enhancement: WITH-COMPILATION-UNIT no longer grabs the world-lock. + (COMPILE and COMPILE-FILE still do.) + * optimization: the SPARC backend now supports the precise generational + (GENCGC) garbage collection. Enabled by default on Solaris/SPARC and + Linux/SPARC. Thanks to Raymond Toy (via CMUCL). + * enhancement: add experimental support for the SB-THREAD feature and the + timer facility on Windows. Thanks to Dmitry Kalyanov and Anton Kovalenko. + Threads are enabled by default, and this version of SBCL is considered + to be the last and final release to officially support building with + threads disabled. + * optimization: The compiler no longer rotates loops in some cases where + this transformation actually lead to worse code being generated. + * bug fix: SB-CLTL2:MACROEXPAND-ALL correctly handles shadowing of + symbol-macros by lexical bindings. + * bug fix: stack allocation was prevented by high DEBUG declaration in + several cases. + * bug fix: SB-EXT:GC-LOGFILE signaled an error when no logfile was set. + (thanks to SANO Masatoshi) + * bug fix: PARSE-NATIVE-NAMESTRING performed non-native parsing when + :JUNK-ALLOWED was true. + * bug fix: type derivation inferred overly conservative types for + unions of array types. (lp#1050768) + +changes in sbcl-1.1.0 relative to sbcl-1.0.58: + * enhancement: New variable, sb-ext:*disassemble-annotate* for controlling + source annotation of DISASSEMBLE output. Defaults to T. + * enhancement: TIMEOUT arguments added to WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK, and + WAIT-P argument added to WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-PUSH and SB-EXT:ATOMIC-POP allow atomic operations + on list heads. + * enhancement: Optional features (not enabled by default) allow the + use of signals for inter-thread synchronization to be reduced on certain + supported platforms (currently Linux, Solaris, and FreeBSD on x86 and + x86-64). Set (and :sb-thread :sb-safepoint :sb-thruption :sb-wtimer) + to test these experimental features. Known remaining bugs include minor + thread safety issues, less timely freeing of memory by GC, and certain + (not yet optimally low) runtime overhead. Thanks to Anton Kovalenko. + * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT of lists are faster and use fewer + comparisons, particularly on almost-sorted inputs. + * bug fix: Reading floats with large exponents no longer takes too much time + before reporting that the exponent is too large. + * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-RECEIVE with a UDP socket now works + correctly when the received datagram is larger than the provided buffer. + (lp#1023438, thanks to Robert Uhl) + * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION returned a bogus read-form when given + a SYMBOL-VALUE form with a constant symbol argument. + * bug fix: SB-EXT:GET-CAS-EXPANSION signaled an error when a macro expanding + into a DEFCAS defined place was used as the place. + * bug fix: FIND and POSITION signaled a type-error when non-bits where looked + for from bit-vectors. + * bug fix: a race condition around thread creation could (in SBCL 1.0.57) + lead to internal errors or crashes (lp#1058799). + * documentation: a section on random number generation has been added to the + manual. (lp#656839) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.58 relative to sbcl-1.0.57: + * enhancement: implicit generic function warnings now specify the package + in which the new generic function is being created. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:ATOMIC-UPDATE makes it easy to perform non-destructive + updates of CAS-able places (similar to Clojure's swap!). + * enhancement: run-program no longer decodes and re-encodes environment when + :environment argument is not provided. (lp#985904) + * enhancement: errors during compiler-macro expansion no longer cause + runtime errors, only a compile-time warning, otherwise behaving as if + the compiler macro had declined to expand. + * optimization: On x86-64, code alignment of block headers is done with + multi-byte NOPs now instead of repetitions of the single-byte NOP. + * optimization: MAP-INTO is substantially faster when the target sequence is + of unknown type; mapping into lists is no longer O(N^2). (lp#1001043, + thanks to James M. Lawrence) + * optimization: the compiler no longer heap-conses to check exits in cases + where the exit function is dynamic extent, or when it can prove the exit + function cannot escape. (lp#1002534) + * optimization: SB-SEQUENCE:DOSEQUENCE is faster on vectors of unknown + element type, and vectors that aren't SIMPLE-ARRAYs. + * optimization: CL:SORT and CL:STABLE-SORT are more efficient in execution + speed (around 1/3 the time in some cases), and a little better in terms of + comparison calls. (Thanks to Takeru Ohta) + * bug fix: On SPARC, a limitation on the number of code constants emittable + by the compiler has been lifted, allowing certain long functions to + compiled and assembled which had previously been unsupported; fixes + cl-bench on this ISA (lp#1008996). + * bug fix: potential for infinite recursion during compilation of CLOS slot + typechecks when dependency graph had loops. (lp#1001799) + * bug fix: error forms reported with some program-errors were not escaped + properly. + * bug fix: functions from EVAL are now on more equal footing with functions + from COMPILE. (lp#1000783, lp#851170, lp#922408) + * bug fix: ENSURE-GENERIC-METHOD-COMBINATION accepts method combination + objects as its :METHOD-COMBINATION argument, not just lists designating + method combinations. (lp#936513) + * bug fix: run-program no longer unconditionally uses /tmp/ for temporary + files. (lp#968837). + * bug fix: restore build on solaris/sparc. (lp#1008506) + * bug fix: an issue with LDB in the PowerPC backend has been resolved; + this fixes an issue found with cl-postgres (thanks to Tomas Hlavaty). + * bug fix: compiler-macro lambda-lists specifying non-keyword symbols + as keyword arguments no longer accidentally match unevaluated symbols + against them. + * bug fix: FORMAT used to loop infinitely in some cases when a COLINC + parameter was zero, now it signals an error. (lp#905817, fixed since + 1.0.56.19) + * bug fix: run-program with :pty t no longer makes the pty as the process's + controling terminal. + * bug fix: spawning threads on OS X 10.8 no longer crashes the process + (lp#1012811). + +changes in sbcl-1.0.57 relative to sbcl-1.0.56: * RANDOM enhancements and bug fixes: ** bug fix: the range and distribution of random integers could be catastrophically wrong when the compiler derived the type of its @@ -7,7 +223,7 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56: ** bug fix: the distribution of random integers is now completely uniform even when the specified limit is not a power of two. (Previously some values could be about 0.1 % more probable than - others in the worst case.) + others in the worst case.) (lp#309467) ** RANDOM on large integer arguments is generally faster and conses less than before; this is visible for fixnums above a length of about 24 bits, but extremely so for bignums: the old implementation @@ -66,6 +282,9 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.56: strictly-monotonic functions. (lp#975528) * bug fix: copy-tree caused stack exhaustion on long linear lists, and now it's also slightly faster. (lp#998926) + * bug fix: better error messages for malformed declarations. + (lp#1000239) + * bug fix: define-condition didn't return the name of the defined condition. * documentation: ** improved docstrings: REPLACE (lp#965592)