X-Git-Url: http://repo.macrolet.net/gitweb/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=NEWS;h=feef931f47d3d94f342da886ab617322c3f5c15f;hb=5951caad8c14912c4dd859a49d2b240fa247b51d;hp=f6228a50ab4e976b32bc60744334434b8b34c1a6;hpb=dd92bd1d2fff942e6a38542364be21fa256cb4c0;p=sbcl.git diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f6228a5..feef931 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,14 +1,134 @@ ;;;; -*- coding: utf-8; fill-column: 78 -*- -changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37: - * INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs - like for any other thread-related datastructure (MUTEX, etc.) - * DEPRECATION: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY +changes relative to sbcl-1.0.42 + * incompatible change: FD-STREAMS no longer participate in the serve-event + event-loop by default. (lp#316072) + ** In addition to streams created by explicit calls to MAKE-FD-STREAM this + affects streams from CL:OPEN. + ** Streams from SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM still participate in serve-event by + default, but this is liable to change: applications needing serve-event + for socket streams should explicitly request it using :SERVE-EVENTS T + in the call. + * enhancement: SB-EXT:WORD type is provided for use with SB-EXT:ATOMIC-INCF + &co. + * enhancement: CLOS effective method functions and defclass slot typechecking + function now have debug names for use in backtraces and profiles. + * enhancement: ASDF has been updated to version 2.004. (lp#605260, thanks to + Faré Rideau) + * enhancement: symbols are printed using fully qualified names in several + error and warning messages which are often associated with package + conflicts or mixups (lp#622789, thanks to Attila Lendvai) + * bug fix: SB-BSD-SOCKETS:SOCKET-CONNECT was not thread safe. (lp#505497, + thanks to Andrew Golding) + * bug fix: reading /proc files on Linux works. (lp#425199) + * bug fix: DOTIMES accepted literal non-integer reals. (lp#619393, thanks to + Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: WRITE-TO-STRING compiler macro binding special variable names, + breaking code that tried to write the value of a printer control variable. + (lp#581564, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: WRITE compiler macro did not handle output stream designators + correctly. (lp#598374, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: better availability of names of foreign functions in backtraces + on Linux. (lp#626962, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: scripting and build for Solaris and FreeBSD. (lp#615497, + lp#627581, thanks to Josh Elsasser and Jim Wise) + * bug fix: build fixes for OpenBSD -current and 4.8 (lp#615489, lp#615492, + thanks to Josh Elsasser) + * bug fix: using aliases for builtin classes as defmethod specializers + without adding DEFTYPEs for them works. (lp#618387) + * bug fix: timetravel by getrusage() no longer causes type-errors during GC. + (lp#544421) + * bug fix: legally dynamic-extent lists and vectors used as + initialization arguments to MAKE-ARRAY can be stack allocated. (lp#586105) + * bug fix: inline-expansion creating references to dead lambda-variables + (lp#454681, thanks to Alexey Dejneka) + * bug fix: better error message for bogus numerical arguments to RANDOM. + (lp#598986, thanks to Stas Boukarev) + * bug fix: the compiler occasionally inlined references from incompatible + environments occurs. (lp#308951) + * bug fix: the compiler threw an error when trying to compile a local + function (labels or flet) known to take a specialized complex argument. + (not in launchpad, reported by sykopomp in #lispgames) + * bug fix: package-locks failed to protect against compile-time effects of + DEFUN when the symbol previously had a macro definition. (lp#576637) + * bug fix: spurious ignore warnings even given (DECLARE IGNORE) in methods + when parameter bindings mutated. (reported by Faré Rideau; lp #611361) + * bug fix: workaround for compiler hang in ORDER-UVL-SETS (lp#308914) + * bug fix: evaluation in debugger REPL works using the global context when + in frames that do not have sufficient debug information. + * bug fix: exceeding FD_SETSIZE limit now results in an sensible error + (lp#316068) + * bug fix: (SETF DOCUMENTATION) of a macro works properly. (lp#643958, thanks + to Stas Boukarev) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.42 relative to sbcl-1.0.41 + * build changes + ** Cross-compilation host is now specified to make.sh using + command-line argument --xc-host= instead of a positional + argument. (thanks to Daniel Herring) + ** Install location can be specified to make.sh using command-line + argument --prefix=. (lp#550889s, thanks to Daniel Herring) + * optimization: The default implementation of + COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION does much less wasted work. + * enhancement: Explicit memory barrier operations are now available for use + by multithreaded code. See documentation for details. + * enhancement: Experimental support for threading on Linux/PPC. + * bug fix: RENAME-PACKAGE returns the package. (Thanks to Eric Marsden) + * bug fix: EXPT signals an error if first argument is a zero and second + argument is a floating point zero. (lp#571581, thanks to Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: DEFTYPE signals an error for non-list lambda-lists. + (lp#576594, thanks to Roman Marynchak) + * bug fix: make ASDF-INSTALL compatible with the now-included ASDF2. + (lp#612998, reported by Phil Hargett; patch from Jim Wise) + +changes in sbcl-1.0.41 relative to sbcl-1.0.40: + * optimization: validity of observed keyword initargs to MAKE-INSTANCE is + cached, leading to many fewer expensive calls to + COMPUTE-APPLICABLE-METHODS. + * optimization: in the (unoptimized) general method for MAKE-INSTANCE on a + CLASS argument, search for and call an appropriate optimized ctor function + if it exists. + * bug fix: WRITE always returns the correct value. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.40 relative to sbcl-1.0.39: + * bug fix: readdir now works on :inode64 darwin builds (lp#592897) + * bug fix: Name conflicts between symbols passed as arguments to a single + call to IMPORT no longer add multiple symbols with the same name to the + package (detectable via DO-SYMBOLS). + * bug fix: support building without the dlshim on darwin x86 and x86-64 + (lp#533470). + * bug fix: TRACE :ENCAPSULATE NIL now works on ppc/linux. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.39 relative to sbcl-1.0.38: + * bug fix: Backtrace from undefined function on x86 and x86-64 now show + the calling frame. + * bug fix: linkage-table entries on PPC now no longer overflow their + space allocation (potentially causing crashes if they are written out + of order). + * bug fix: Scrub control stack after scavenging in gencgc on non-x86oid + platforms, preventing the GC from seeing stale pointers on the control + stack in subsequent GCs (which would, and does, break invariants). + * bug fix: 32-bit unicode external formats now work on big-endian systems. + * bug fix: Literal characters with code points greater than about 32767 + now work on PPC UNICODE builds. + * bug fix: Any noise left by SSE operations (sqrt and conversions) in the + high order bits are explicitly cleared out. In some contrived situations, + this could lead to wrong results in mixed real/complex float arithmetic. + * bug fix: Fix function/macro redefinition warnings when building with + clisp. (lp#576787, thanks to Josh Elsasser) + * new platform: experimental support for ppc/openbsd (thanks to Josh + Elsasser). + * bug fix: Floating-point traps now work on ppc/linux. + +changes in sbcl-1.0.38 relative to sbcl-1.0.37: + * incompatible change: Thread names are now restricted to SIMPLE-STRINGs + like for any other thread-related datastructure, MUTEX, etc. (lp#547095) + * deprecation: the SB-QUEUE contrib was merged into the SB-CONCURRENCY contrib module. New code should depend on SB-CONCURRENCY, not SB-QUEUE. - * DEPRECATION: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of + * deprecation: SB-THEAD:GET-MUTEX was deprecated in favor of SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX. - * new contrib: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to contain - additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming; at the - moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox + * new contributed module: SB-CONCURRENCY is a new contrib; it's supposed to + contain additional data structures and tools for concurrent programming; + at the moment it contains a lock-free queue, and a lock-free mailbox implementation. * new feature: added SB-THREAD:GRAB-MUTEX; it's like the now deprecated GET-MUTEX but takes &key rather than &optional parameters. Also added @@ -31,11 +151,24 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37: SOCKET-PEERNAME. ** SOCKET-MAKE-STREAM once more supports the :AUTO-CLOSE option. (lp#540413) + ** SOCKET-CLOSE now accepts :ABORT argument, which is passed on to + CL:CLOSE when appropriate, and no longer disassociates the stream + from the socket if close failed. (lp#543951) * improvements to the instrumenting profiler ** new feature: report per-function GC overhead. (thanks to John Fremlin) ** optimization: counters no longer use locks for the overflow mode. ** bug fix: whenever a profiling counter wrapped into overflow mode, it incurred an off-by-one miscount. + * enhancement: improved MAKE-HASH-TABLE documentation (lp#543473) + * enhancement: improved DEFMETHOD pretty-printing. + * enhancement: perform range reduction when arguments are too large for + x87's transcendentals (instead of returning 0). (lp#327192) + * enhancement: eliminate some spurious TYPE-WARNINGs. Should help with + some of CL-PPCRE's macros. (lp#570079) + * enhancement: our machine code is slightly less hostile to valgrind on + x86-64. + * enhancement: up-to-date versions of NetBSD-current are supported. (Thanks + to Robert Swindells and Aleksej Saushev) * bug fix: correct restart text for the continuable error in MAKE-PACKAGE. * bug fix: a rare case of startup-time page table corruption. * bug fix: a semaphore with multiple waiters and some of them unwinding due @@ -51,6 +184,26 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.37: * bug fix: allow forward FIND and POSITION on lists to elide checking :END against length of the list if the element is found before the specified END is reached. (thanks to Alec Berryman, lp#554385) + * bug fix: errors signalled during package graph modification no longer + block FIND-SYMBOL and FIND-PACKAGE in other threads. (lp#511072) + * bug fix: SB-POSIX build was broken when SBCL was compiled without the + :SB-DOC feature. (lp#552564) + * bug fix: SB-INTROSPECT build issues on GENGC/PPC. (lp#490490) + * bug fix: more robust runtime executable path detection. (lp#375549) + * bug fix: GCD always returns positive values. (lp#413680) + * bug fix: Converting division to multiplication by reciprocal handles + denormals. + * bug fix: We were too eager in eliding range reduction tests on x87. + The maximal magnitude is 2^63, not 2^64. + * bug fix: Transforms for TRUNCATE don't die when the result is completely + ignored anymore. + * bug fix: Maybe restore buildability on Alpha. + * bug fix: READ-BYTE isn't inline anymore, fixing weird streams failures. + (lp#569404) + * bug fix: RANDOM-STATE can be printed readably again. + * bug fix: Unreadable objects were sometimes printed like #<\nFoo>. + * bug fix: Using EQL with non-constant values of constant type (e.g. EQL + types) could result in type mismatches during compilation. changes in sbcl-1.0.37 relative to sbcl-1.0.36: * enhancement: Backtrace from THROW to uncaught tag on x86oids now shows