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@@ -2314,9 +2314,88 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
        element-type larger than ([UN]SIGNED-BYTE 32).
 
 changes in sbcl-0.8.9 relative to sbcl-0.8.8:
+  * deprecation of old extension: *DEBUG-PRINT-LEVEL* and
+    *DEBUG-PRINT-LENGTH* are now deprecated in favor of the new, more
+    general SB-DEBUG:*DEBUG-PRINT-VARIABLE-ALIST* mechanism. (This
+    should matter to you only if you rebind the printer control
+    variables and then find you want different bindings in the 
+    debugger than in the ordinary execution of your program.)
   * The runtime build system has been tweaked to support building
     (on SPARC/SunOS) using a C compiler which invokes Sun's own
     assembler and linker.  (thanks to Nikodemus Siivola)
+  * Unbound, undefined, undeclared variables now trigger full
+    WARNINGs, not just STYLE-WARNINGs, on the assumption that this is
+    more often programmer error than deliberate exploitation of undefined
+    behaviour.
+  * optimization: the hash algorithm for strings has changed to one
+    that is less vulnerable to spurious collisions.  (thanks to Juho
+    Snellman)
+  * optimization: VECTOR-POP, VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND and REPLACE do less
+    needless bounds checking.  (thanks to Juho Snellman)
+  * optimization: implemented multiplication as a modular
+    (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) operation on the PPC backend.
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** ADJUST-ARRAY now copies the datum in a zero rank array if
+       required.
+    ** ADJUST-ARRAY no longer adjusts non-adjustable arrays.
+    ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM accepts NIL as a value for :END.
+    ** MAKE-STRING-INPUT-STREAM functions correctly for strings with
+       element-type NIL.
+    ** CLEAR-INPUT accepts NIL and T for its (optional) stream
+       argument.
+    ** Ratios can now be printed correctly with *PRINT-BASE* bound to
+       2, 8 or 16.
+    ** ECHO-STREAMs no longer attempt to echo the end of file value to
+       their output stream on EOF from read.
+    ** CONCATENATED-STREAM-STREAMS discards constituent streams which
+       have been read to end-of-file.
+    ** CLOSE works as expected on the null CONCATENATED-STREAM, and on
+       STRING-STREAMS.
+    ** Printing symbols with *PRINT-CASE* :CAPITALIZE respects the
+       description of determination of which consecutive characters
+       constitute a word.
+    ** Printing the "Space" character with escaping on now yields "#\\ ", 
+       rather than "#\\Space", as mandated by ANSI 22.1.3.2.
+    ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
+       less than 10 works correctly.
+    ** Reading floating-point numbers with *READ-BASE* set to a number
+       more than 10 works correctly.
+    ** Printing with *PRINT-READABLY* targets the standard readtable, not
+       the readtable currently in effect.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.8.10 relative to sbcl-0.8.9:
+  * Support for the forthcoming 2.0 version of the NetBSD kernel
+    running on x86 hardware has been added.  (thanks to Perry
+    E. Metzger most immediately, and others for their past work)
+  * SBCL now runs on OpenBSD 3.4. (Thanks to Scott Parish; 3.4 is the
+    current release version; SBCL's OpenBSD support had been broken 
+    since about the time of OpenBSD's switch to ELF binary format.)
+  * [placeholder for DX summary]
+    ** user code with &REST lists declared dynamic-extent, under high
+       speed or space and low safety and debug optimization policy.
+  * The manual has been converted to Texinfo format and the debugger
+    chapter from the cmucl manual has been added.
+  * A facility has been added to extract documentation strings from
+    sbcl and store them as Texinfo-formatted snippets for inclusion in
+    the manual (via Texinfo's @include directive)
+  * bug fix: compiler emitted division in optimized DEREF.  (thanks for
+    the test case to Dave Roberts)
+  * bug fix: multidimensional simple arrays loaded from FASLs had fill
+    pointers.  (reported by Sean Ross)
+  * bug fix: PROFILE output is printed nicely even for large numerical
+    values.  (thanks to Zach Beane)
+  * bug fix: streams with element-type (SIGNED-BYTE <N>) for <N>
+    greater than 32 handle EOF correctly.
+  * bug fix: on X86 an immediate argument of the IMUL instruction is
+    correctly printed in disassembly. (thanks to Lutz Euler)
+  * bug fix: class slots in redefined classes preserve their old
+    values.  (thanks to Bruno Haible and Nikodemus Siivola)
+  * bug fix: compilation of funcalls of CXX+R (e.g. CDDR) now
+    succeeds.  (reported by Marco Baringer)
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** READ-SEQUENCE now works on ECHO-STREAMs.
+    ** RATIONALIZE works more according to its specification.  (thanks
+       to Bruno Haible)
 
 planned incompatible changes in 0.8.x:
   * (not done yet, but planned:) When the profiling interface settles