0.8.8:

	release, tagged as sbcl_0_8_8

diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS
index 1e79aa1..e579d22 100644 (file)
--- a/CREDITS
+++ b/CREDITS
@@ -595,9 +595,10 @@ Antonio Martinez-Shotton:
   He has contributed a number of bug fixes and bug reports to SBCL.
 
 Brian Mastenbrook:
-  He contributed to the port of SBCL to MacOS X.  He found a way to
-  overcome binary compatibility issues between different versions of
-  dlcompat on Darwin.
+  He contributed to and extensively maintained the port of SBCL to
+  MacOS X. His contributions include overcoming binary compatibility
+  issues between different versions of dlcompat on Darwin, other 
+  linker fixes, and signal handler bugfixes.
 
 Dave McDonald:
   He made a lot of progress toward getting SBCL to be bootstrappable

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f364f8b..5c7086e 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2250,6 +2250,9 @@ changes in sbcl-0.8.8 relative to sbcl-0.8.7:
     signals received, on the PowerPC platforms (both Linux and
     Darwin).  (thanks to Pierre Mai for pointing out the location of
     the error)
+  * several fixes on OS X: The system now builds and runs cleanly on
+    Panther (10.3), and works around sigreturn bug (no more SIGFPEs).
+    (thanks to Brian Mastenbrook)
   * bug fix: DECODE-UNIVERSAL-TIME now accepts timezone arguments with
     second-resolution: integer multiples of 1/3600 between -24 and 24.
     (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)

diff --git a/doc/DOCDOC b/doc/DOCDOC
index 5ce55e3..465f1f3 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/DOCDOC
+++ b/doc/DOCDOC
@@ -4,13 +4,13 @@ Overview
 ========
 
 SBCL's documentation is written in XML DocBook which is a semantically
-marked document not meant for reading. Rather, a DocBook file is meant
-to be transformed into presentation formats such as HTML, PDF, and
-plain text. To perform such translation, you'll need tools beyond what
-is included in the SBCL distribution:
+marked document not meant for humans to read directly. Rather, a
+DocBook file is meant to be transformed into presentation formats such
+as HTML, PDF, and plain text. To perform such translation, you'll need
+tools beyond what is included in the SBCL distribution:
 
 1) To verify the correctness of the XML documentation, you'll need the
-DocBook DTD files and an XML verification tools.
+DocBook DTD files and an XML verification tool.
 
 2) To transform the main XML DocBook file (user-manual.xml), you need
 an XSL Transformer and the Docbook XSL Stylesheets. The stylesheets
@@ -23,12 +23,12 @@ Catalog Files
 =============
 
 Catalog files are used to map URLs used in the SBCL Docbook and
-stylesheet files into local file names. By using catalog, processing
+stylesheet files into local file names. By using a catalog, processing
 is faster and a network connection is not necessary. Catalog files are
 specific to an operating system since they embed file locations. The
 SBCL Makefile attempts to determine the correct catalog for your
 system. If SBCL does not supply a catalog for your system, processing
-the DocBook files will require a network connections.
+the DocBook files will require a network connection.
 
 Default Processing
 ==================

diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index c2a8ea3..f5f0511 100644 (file)
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -17,4 +17,4 @@
 ;;; checkins which aren't released. (And occasionally for internal
 ;;; versions, especially for internal versions off the main CVS
 ;;; branch, it gets hairier, e.g. "0.pre7.14.flaky4.13".)
-"0.8.7.57"
+"0.8.8"