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 ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; -*-
+changes in sbcl-0.9.12 relative to sbcl-0.9.11:
+  * Enhancements for sbcl running on the Windows operating system:
+    ** (user-homedir-pathname) and default initialization file
+       locations now know about the user's "Documents and Settings"
+       directory (thanks to Yaroslav Kavenchuk)
+    ** run-program is implemented (thanks to Mike Thomas)
+    ** sockets support (thanks to Timothy Ritchey)
+    ** better backtrace support (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
+    ** sb-grovel supported
+    ** asdf-install and sb-posix work somewhat
+    ** capable of running Slime using SWANK:*COMMUNICATION-STYLE* NIL
+  * minor incompatible change: The reader no longer ignores errors
+    regarding non-existent packages in #+ and #- feature tests.
+  * new feature: command line options --no-sysinit, --no-userinit to
+    inhibit loading the corresponding init files
+  * minor incompatible change: SIGPIPE is ignored and "Broken pipe"
+    error is signalled instead (thanks to François-René Rideau)
+  * bug fix: LISTEN sometimes returned T even in cases where no data was
+    immediately available from the stream
+  * fixed bug: types of the last two arguments to SET-SYNTAX-FROM-CHAR
+    were reversed. (reported by Levente Mészáros)
+  * fixed bug: Tests for the (VECTOR T) type gave the wrong answer
+    when given a vector displaced to an adjustable array.  (reported
+    by Utz-Uwe Haus)
+  * bug fix: derivation of float boundaries from numbers outside the
+    appropriate float range (reported by John Wiseman)
+  * improvements to DOCUMENTATION for TYPE and STRUCTURE doc-types:
+    allow condition class objects as arguments to DOCUMENTATION and
+    (SETF DOCUMENTATION); only find and set documentation for
+    structure names for the STRUCTURE doc-type.  (suggested by Gary
+    King)
+  * improvements to the Solaris/x86 port:
+    ** works on Solaris 11/Solaris Express
+    ** floating-point exception handling support
+    ** support for the breakpoint-based TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL facility
+  * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
+    ** REMOVE-METHOD returns its generic function argument even when
+       the method is not one of the generic functions' methods.
+    ** objects declared as MEMBER types can be admissible arguments to 
+       structure accessors.
+    ** printing characters should simply be printed by the FORMAT ~:C
+       directive.
+
+changes in sbcl-0.9.11 relative to sbcl-0.9.10:
+  * new platform: experimental support for SBCL x86/Darwin, including
+    MacOS X 10.4.5 on Intel.
+  * new feature: Unicode character names are now known to the system
+    (through CHAR-NAME and NAME-CHAR).
+  * new feature: the filesystem location of SBCL's core file is
+    exposed to lisp through the variable SB-EXT:*CORE-PATHNAME*.
+  * minor incompatible change: the contrib modules SB-POSIX and
+    SB-BSD-SOCKETS no longer depend on stub C libraries; the intent of
+    this change is to make it easier to distribute
+    location-independent binaries.
+  * bug fix: as implied by AMOP, standardized classes no longer have
+    slots named by external symbols of public packages.  (reported by
+    Pascal Costanza)
+  * optimization: calling functions via constant symbols -- as in 
+    (FUNCALL 'FOO) -- is now roughly as efficient as calling them
+    via the function object as in (FUNCALL #'FOO).
+  * optimization: on x86 and x86-64, the calling convention for the
+    case of dealing with an unknown number of values has been altered
+    to be friendlier to the prediction heuristics implemented,
+    particularly with reference to CALL and RET pairing.  (thanks to
+    Alastair Bridgewater)
+  * optimization: on x86, the code for access to thread-local symbol
+    values and binding/unbinding of thread-local symbols is smaller.
+    (thanks to Alastair Bridgewater)
+  * enhancement: CONSTANTP is now able to determine constantness of
+    more complex forms, including calls to constant-foldable standardized
+    functions and some special forms beyond QUOTE.
+  * fixed bug: occasional GC crashes on Solaris/x86
+  * optimization: x86-64 supports stack allocation of results of simple
+    calls of MAKE-ARRAY, bound to variables, declared DYNAMIC-EXTENT
+  * enchancement: the PROCESS-INPUT and -OUTPUT streams created by 
+    SB-EXT:RUN-PROGRAM can be used for both character and byte IO
+    (thanks to James Knight)
+  * fixed bug: CL:LISTEN always returns NIL at end of file, as required
+    by the standard (thanks to Stephen Compall)
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
+  * new feature: new SAVE-LISP-AND-DIE keyword argument :EXECUTABLE can
+    be used for bundling the runtime and the core file into one 
+    executable binary. This feature is not currently supported on all SBCL
+    platforms.  (thanks to James Bielman and NIIMI Satoshi)
+  * new feature: a generational or ephemeral garbage collector is now
+    the default on the PowerPC platform (both Linux and Darwin).  The
+    old Cheney (stop and copy) collector is a build-time option.
+    (thanks to Cyrus Harmon, after Raymond Toy)
+  * minor incompatible change: the method by which SBCL finds its
+    contributed modules has changed; it no longer relies on symbolic
+    links from an $SBCL_HOME/systems directory, but searches directly
+    in the subdirectories of $SBCL_HOME.
+  * enhancement: the dynamic heap size on the Linux/PPC platform is
+    markedly larger, even using the older Cheney garbage collector.
   * fixed bug #399: full call to DATA-VECTOR-REF in accesses to
     certain complicated string types.  (reported by Gary King)
   * fixed bug: STRING-TO-OCTETS and OCTETS-TO-STRING did not convert
@@ -7,6 +101,22 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.10 relative to sbcl-0.9.9:
   * fixed bug: DOCUMENTATION on structures no longer signals an 
     error if no structure type of the right name exists.  (reported by
     Glenn Ehrlich)
+  * fixed bug: compiled calls to MAKE-INSTANCE where there is an
+    applicable non-standard primary or :AROUND method on
+    INITIALIZE-INSTANCE or SHARED-INITIALIZE and a non-keyword initarg
+    no longer cause unbound variable errors.  (reported by Kevin Reid)
+  * fixed bug: metacircle resolution in cases where methods have slots
+    added before the slots from STANDARD-METHOD.  (reported by Jean
+    Bresson)
+  * fixed bug: the Power PC assembly code for calling into lisp
+    sometimes computed its return address wrongly (depending on the
+    15th bit of the address, fixed at link time).  This used to
+    manifest itself in a segmentation violation while building PCL.
+    (reported by Kevin Rosenberg, Eric Marsden, Lars Brinkhoff and
+    many others over the years)
+  * fixed bug: ROOM no longer reports silly numbers for stack usage if
+    the stack pointer (treated as a signed integer) is negative.
+    (thanks to Peter van Eynde)
 
 changes in sbcl-0.9.9 relative to sbcl-0.9.8:
   * new platform: experimental support for the Windows operating
@@ -62,7 +172,7 @@ changes in sbcl-0.9.8 relative to sbcl-0.9.7:
   * fixed some bugs revealed by Paul Dietz' test suite:
     ** DOCUMENTATION returns NIL instead of "" for method combinations
        that don't have a docstring
-
+
 changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
   * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
     GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and