threading NEWS, and thanks to supporters

  Update NEWS with the recent threading work.

  Many thanks to all the IndieGoGo donors who have made these improvements --
  and more to come -- possible.

     www.indiegogo.com/SBCL-Threading-Improvements-1

  In addition some 80 donors who didn't choose any perks at all, or were
  content with a warm and fuzzy feeling, thanks are owed to:

    Abhishek Reddy
    Alexander Shendi
    Alexander Skobelev
    Alexandre Abreu
    Andreas Franke
    Andreas Fredriksson
    Andreas Fuchs
    AntonVodonosov
    Arnaud Betremieux
    Atte Hinkka
    Austin Haas
    Benjamin Tovar
    Bong Munoz
    Bozhidar Batsov
    Brandon Werner
    Brit Butler
    Bruce O'Neel
    CHIBA Masaomi
    Carl Gay
    Chad
    Chaitanya Gupta
    Charlie McMackin
    Christian Walther
    Copyleft Solutions
    Cyrus Harmon
    Dan Ballard
    Daniel Collin
    Danny Woods
    Dave Newton
    David BIltcliffe
    David Lamkins
    Eric Blossom
    Erik Winkels
    Francisco Vides Fernández
    Gabriel Giovannetti
    Gary Klimowicz
    Gary Waters
    Geir Tjørhom
    Gene Diveglia
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    Heow Goodman
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    James Wright
    Jan Moringen
    Jeff Palmucci
    Jerry Errett
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    Jonathan Smith
    Jorge Gajon
    Joseph Iacobucci
    Josh Marchan
    José Antonio Ortega Ruiz
    Jovanovic Milan
    Jānis Džeriņš
    Kamil Shakirov
    Kan-Ru Chen
    Karsten Poeck
    Kevin Raison
    Kim Minh Kaplan
    Lars Brinkhoff
    Lee Hinman
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    Liam Healy
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    Mark Hepburn
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    Masatoshi SANO
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    Matthew Curry
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    Tim Howe
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    Tim Showalter
    Timo Myyrä
    Todd Alan Kurtz
    View Software Services Ltd / P Baccou
    Vincent Manis
    Vsevolod Domkin
    William Hay
    Wukix Inc.
    Xristos Kalkanis
    Yoshinori Tahara
    Yousuke Ushiki
    Zach Beane
    Zach Kost-Smith
    agriff
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 63beae9..929c240 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -7,6 +7,23 @@ changes relative to sbcl-1.0.53:
        directory, but now signal an error instead. Use TRUENAME to resolve
        the pathname if you wish to delete the linked directory, and DELETE-FILE
        if you wish to delete the
+    ** The internal SB-THREAD::SPINLOCK API has been deprecated, and using
+       symbols associated with it will trigger a compile-time warning.
+  * thread-related enhancements:
+    (This work has been funded by the SBCL Threading 2011 IndieGoGo campaign.
+     Many thanks to generous donors!)
+    ** Threading is now more reliable on non-Linux platforms. We still
+       don't consider threads on non-Linux platforms good enough to
+       enable them by default, but they're in a clearly better shape now.
+    ** Deadlines supported now on all platforms.
+    ** All blocking functions in the threading API now have a :TIMEOUT
+       argument.
+    ** Semaphore notification objects have been added to SB-THREAD.
+    ** SB-CONCURRENCY contrib now includes Allegro-style GATE objects.
+    ** SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP has been extended to support SLOT-VALUE,
+       STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS, and FUNCALLABLE-STANDARD-INSTANCE-ACCESS.
+    ** Users can now defined new places usable with SB-EXT:COMPARE-AND-SWAP
+       using an API anologous to defining new SETFable places.
   * enchancement: on CHENEYGC targets, SB-KERNEL:MAKE-LISP-OBJ now does
     the same validation of pointer objects as GENCGC does, instead of a
     comparatively weak bounds-check against the heap spaces.