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+changes in sbcl-1.0.8 relative to sbcl-1.0.7:
+  * enhancement: experimental macro SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP provides
+    atomic compare-and-swap operations on threaded platforms.
+  * enhancement: experimental function SB-EXT:RESTRICT-COMPILER-POLICY
+    allows assining a global minimum value to optimization qualities
+    (overriding proclamations and declarations).
+  * enhancement: closed over variables can be stack-allocated on x86
+    and x86-64.
+  * performance bug fix: GETHASH and (SETF GETHASH) are once again
+    non-consing.
+  * optimization: slot definition lookup is now O(1). This speeds up
+    eg. SLOT-VALUE and (SETF SLOT-VALUE) with variable slot names.
+  * optimization: STRING-TO-OCTETS is now up to 60% faster for UTF-8.
+  * optimization: ASSOC and MEMBER can now be open-coded for all
+    combinations of keyword arguments when second argument is constant
+    and SPEED >= SPACE. In other cases a specialized version is
+    selected.
+  * bug fix: using obsoleted structure instances with TYPEP and
+    generic functions now signals a sensible error.
+  * bug fix: threads waiting on GET-FOREGROUND can be interrupted.
+    (reported by Kristoffer Kvello)
+  * bug fix: backtrace construction is now more careful when making
+    lisp-objects from pointers on the stack, to avoid creating bogus
+    objects that can be seen by the GC.
+  * bug fix: defaulting of values in contexts expecting more than 7
+    variables now works on x86-64.  (reported by Christopher Laux)
+  * bug fix: modifications to packages (INTERN, EXPORT, etc) are now
+    thread safe.
+  * bug fix: (SETF SYMBOL-PLIST) no longer allows assigning a non-list
+    as the property-list of a symbol.
+  * bug fix: DEFMETHOD forms with CALL-NEXT-METHOD in the method body,
+    in EVAL-WHEN forms with both :COMPILE-TOPLEVEL and :LOAD-TOPLEVEL 
+    situations requested, are once again file-compileable.  (reported
+    by Sascha Wilde)
+
+changes in sbcl-1.0.7 relative to sbcl-1.0.6:
+  * MOP improvement: support for user-defined subclasses of
+    SB-MOP:SPECIALIZER has been enhanced.  The experimental interface
+    function SB-PCL:MAKE-METHOD-SPECIALIZERS-FORM, called as part of
+    the expansion of DEFMETHOD, is responsible for generating a form
+    which creates a list of specializers when evaluated.  Additional
+    functions SB-PCL:[UN]PARSE-SPECIALIZER-USING-CLASS provide
+    debugging and introspective support.
+  * minor incompatible change: the (unsupported) spinlock interface
+    has changed: free spinlock now has the value NIL, and a held spinlock
+    has the owning thread as its value.
+  * enhancement: WITHOUT-INTERRUPTS now binds ALLOW-WITH-INTERRUPTS and
+    WITH-LOCAL-INTERRUPTS as local macros. Refer to documentation string
+    for details.
+  * enhancement: name of a socket-stream is now "a socket" instead of
+    "a constant string".
+  * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports lockf(). (Thanks to Zach Beane.)  
+  * enhancement: SB-POSIX now supports getcwd(). (Thanks to Tassilo Horn.)
+  * enhancement: SB-INTROSPECT:FUNCTION-ARGLIST shows nicer argument lists
+    for generic functions. (Thanks to Tobias C. Rittweiler)
+  * optimization: bignum printing speed has been improved by 20-40%
+    (depending on the bignum size.)
+  * bug fix: WITH-MUTEX and WITH-RECURSIVE-LOCK are now interrupt safe
+    on Linux.
+  * bug fix: the cache used by the CLOS to store precomputed effective
+    methods, slot offsets, and constant return values is now thread and
+    interrupt safe.
+  * bug fix: generic function dispatch function updating is now thread
+    and interrupt safe (in the sense that the known issues have been
+    fixed.)
+  * bug fix: ADD/REMOVE-METHOD is now thread and interrupt safe.
+  * bug fix: interning EQL-specializers is now thread and interrupt safe.
+  * bug fix: asdf systems with dependencies to the SB-POSIX or 
+    SB-BSD-SOCKETS contribs can be loaded with :FORCE T.
+  * bug fix: interrupt safety of applicable method computation has been
+    improved.
+
 changes in sbcl-1.0.6 relative to sbcl-1.0.5:
   * new contrib: sb-cover, an experimental code coverage tool, is included
     as a contrib module.