0.7.4:

	just doc updates for release

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 2a0a12b..3e6c25f 100644 (file)
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -508,12 +508,13 @@ Martin Atzmueller:
 Daniel Barlow:
   He made SBCL play nicely with ILISP. He figured out how to get the
   CMU CL dynamic object file loading code to work under SBCL. He
-  ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL. He wrote
-  code (e.g. grovel_headers.c and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle
-  machine-dependence and OS-dependence automatically, reducing
-  the amount of hand-tweaking required to keep ports synchronized.
-  He's also provided support for SBCL (as well as for free
-  Common Lisp in general) through his CLiki website.
+  ported CMU CL's support for Alpha and PPC CPUs to SBCL, and then
+  continued to improve the ports. He wrote code (e.g. grovel_headers.c
+  and stat_wrapper stuff) to handle machine-dependence and
+  OS-dependence automatically, reducing the amount of hand-tweaking
+  required to keep ports synchronized. He's also provided support
+  for SBCL (as well as for free Common Lisp in general) through
+  his CLiki website.
 
 Cadabra, Inc. (later merged into GoTo.com):
   They hired Bill Newman to do some consulting for them,
@@ -530,10 +531,10 @@ Douglas Crosher:
 
 Alexey Dejneka:
   He has fixed many, many bugs. There's no single summary theme, but
-  he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and it appears
-  that a lot of his fixes there and elsewhere reflect systematic
-  public-spiritedness, fixing bugs as they show up in sbcl-devel or as
-  archived in the BUGS file.
+  he's fixed about a dozen different bugs in LOOP alone, and more
+  in the compiler itself. It appears that a lot of his fixes there
+  and elsewhere reflect systematic public-spiritedness, fixing bugs
+  as they show up in sbcl-devel or as archived in the BUGS file.
 
 Nathan Froyd:
   He has fixed various bugs, and also done a lot of internal
@@ -543,10 +544,14 @@ Nathan Froyd:
   read without being an expert in ancient languages and so that
   can delete a thousand lines of implement-ITERATE macrology.)
 
+Matthias Hoelzl:
+  He reported and fixed COMPILE's misbehavior on macros.
+
 Arthur Lemmens:
-  He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting SBCL
-  to bootstrap under <some other Common Lisp system, which could
-  probably be found in the sbcl-devel archives>.
+  He found and fixed a number of SBCL bugs while partially porting
+  SBCL to bootstrap under <some other Common Lisp system -- LispWorks
+  for Windows? -- which could probably be found in the sbcl-devel
+  archives>.
 
 Robert MacLachlan:
   He has continued to answer questions about, and contribute fixes to, 
@@ -554,6 +559,11 @@ Robert MacLachlan:
   problems, has been invaluable to the CMU CL project and, by
   porting, invaluable to the SBCL project as well.
 
+Pierre Mai:
+  He has continued to work on CMU CL since the SBCL fork, and also
+  patched code to SBCL to enable dynamic loading of object files 
+  under OpenBSD.
+
 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable
   under CLISP.
@@ -567,10 +577,11 @@ William ("Bill") Newman:
   rid of various functionality (e.g. the byte interpreter).
 
 Christophe Rhodes:
-  He has done various low-level work on SBCL, especially for the
-  SPARC port (and for CPU-architecture-neutral things motivated by
-  it, like *BACKEND-FEATURES*). He's also contributed miscellaneous
-  bug fixes.
+  He ported SBCL to SPARC, made various port-related and SPARC-related
+  changes (like *BACKEND-FEATURES*, made many fixes and improvements
+  in the compiler's type system, has done a substantial amount of work
+  on bootstrapping SBCL under unrelated (non-SBCL, non-CMU-CL) Common
+  Lisps, and contributed in other ways as well.
 
 Stig Erik Sandoe:
   He showed how to convince the GNU toolchain to build SBCL in a way

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 017a521..b2516d9 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1108,10 +1108,16 @@ changes in sbcl-0.7.4 relative to sbcl-0.7.3:
     to Alexey Dejneka)
   * Dynamic loading of object files in OpenBSD is now supported. (thanks
     to Pierre Mai)
+  * COMPILE now works correctly on macros. (thanks to Matthias Hoelzl)
   * GET-MACRO-CHARACTER and SET-MACRO-CHARACTER now represent
     no-value-for-this-character as NIL (as specified by ANSI).
   * HOST-NAMESTRING on physical pathnames now returns a string that is
     valid as a host argument to MERGE-PATHNAMES and to MAKE-PATHNAME.
+    (thanks to Christophe Rhodes)
+  * The Alpha port handles icache flushing more correctly. (thanks to
+    Dan Barlow)
+  * More progress has been made toward bootstrapping under CLISP. (thanks
+    to Christophe Rhodes)
   * The fasl file format has changed again, because dynamic loading
     on OpenBSD (which has non-ELF object files) motivated some cleanups
     in the way that foreign symbols are transformed and passed around.

diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index f3ccd1f..c74a620 100644 (file)
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -18,4 +18,4 @@
 ;;; for internal versions, especially for internal versions off the
 ;;; main CVS branch, it gets hairier, e.g. "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)
 
-"0.7.3.24"
+"0.7.4"