26 Feb 19:40
1. sbcl-1.0.15 has been released, and 2. upcoming sbcl-1.1
From: William Harold Newman <william.newman <at> airmail.net>
Subject: 1. sbcl-1.0.15 has been released, and 2. upcoming sbcl-1.1
Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce
Date: 2008-02-26 18:42:54 GMT
Subject: 1. sbcl-1.0.15 has been released, and 2. upcoming sbcl-1.1
Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce
Date: 2008-02-26 18:42:54 GMT
sbcl-1.0.15 is in the SourceForge file release system now; enjoy.
In unrelated sbcl-announce - ish news, the next release is expected to
be called sbcl-1.1. For details, see sbcl-devel. The high level
summary is:
* Its freeze period is expected to start at the customary
20th-of-the-month-ish time, but instead of releasing it around the
25th, we'll probably poke at it a little longer than usual.
* There is some interest in using it (and then occasional successive
future releases) as the base for more-stable less-patched branches,
something like the Linux stable branches.
>From the NEWS file in the distribution of sbcl-1.0.15:
changes in sbcl-1.0.15 relative to sbcl-1.0.14:
* enhancement: cleaner backtraces for interactive interrupts, as
well as other cases where the interesting frames used to be
obscured by interrupt handling frames.
* enhancement: untracing a whole package using (UNTRACE "FOO") is
now supported, and tracing a whole package using (TRACE "FOO") now
traces SETF-functions as well.
* enhancement: implement SB-POSIX:MKTEMP and SB-POSIX:MKDTEMP.
* SB-DEBUG:PRINT-FRAME-CALL now prints the entry-point kind even
when SB-DEBUG:*SHOW-ENTRY-POINT-DETAILS* is NIL.
* unreadably printed representation of hash-tables now includes
weakness if any.
* bug fix: partially fixed #188: type propagation from assignments
is now more efficient.
* bug fix: fixed #407: (COERCE X 'SINGLE-FLOAT) and (COERCE X
'DOUBLE-FLOAT) are not flushable.
* bug fix: on x86 and x86-64 pointer based EQ-hashing now uses the
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