(I apologize to everyone reading this twice: I absent-mindedly posted
this on sbcl-devel before realizing that it really ought to go to
sbcl-announce.)
I just checked sbcl-0.6.13 into SourceForge CVS. Later today I'll try
to do the SourceForge file release thing for it.
I also updated the SBCL home page information a little bit, mostly
with more information about .deb distributions. Corrections or
clarifications or more pointers or whatever would be welcome.
As I've said in some of my earlier messages, the plan is that the
next release will be 0.7.0, hopefully in a month or so.
from the NEWS file:
changes in sbcl-0.6.13 relative to sbcl-0.6.12:
* a port to the Compaq/DEC Alpha CPU, thanks to Dan Barlow
* Martin Atzmueller ported Tim Moore's marvellous CMU CL DISASSEMBLE
patch, so that DISASSEMBLE output is much nicer.
* The code in the SB-PROFILE package now seems reasonably stable.
I still haven't decided what the final interface should look like
(I'd like PROFILE to interact cleanly with TRACE, since both
facilities use function encapsulation) but if you have a need
for profiling now, you can probably use it successfully with
the current CMU-CL-style interface.
* Pathnames and *DEFAULT-DIRECTORY-DEFAULTS* are much more
ANSI-compliant, thanks to various fixes and tests from Dan Barlow.
Also, at Dan Barlow's suggestion, TRUENAME on a dangling symbolic
link now returns the dangling link itself, and for similar
reasons, TRUENAME on a cyclic symbolic link returns the cyclic
link itself. (In these cases the old code signalled an error and
looped endlessly, respectively.) Thus, DIRECTORY now works even
in the presence of dangling and cyclic symbolic links.
* Compiler trace output (the :TRACE-FILE option to COMPILE-FILE)
is now a supported extension again, since the consensus on
sbcl-devel was that it can be useful for ordinary development
work, not just for debugging SBCL itself.
* The default for SB-EXT:*DERIVE-FUNCTION-TYPES* has changed to
NIL, i.e. ANSI behavior, i.e. the compiler now recognizes
that currently-defined functions might be redefined later with
different return types.
* Hash tables can be printed readably, as inspired by CMU CL code
of Eric Marsden and SBCL code of Martin Atzmueller.
* better error handling in CLOS method combination, thanks to
Martin Atzmueller porting Pierre Mai's CMU CL patches
* more overflow fixes for >16Mbyte I/O buffers
* A bug in READ has been fixed, so that now a single Ctrl-D
character suffices to cause end-of-file on character streams.
In particular, now you only need one Ctrl-D at the command
line (not two) to exit SBCL.
* fixed bug 26: ARRAY-DISPLACEMENT now returns (VALUES NIL 0) for
undisplaced arrays.
* fixed bug 107 (reported as a CMU CL bug by Erik Naggum on
comp.lang.lisp 2001-06-11): (WRITE #*101 :RADIX T :BASE 36) now
does the right thing.
* The implementation of some type tests, especially for CONDITION
types, is now tidier and maybe faster, due to CMU CL code
originally by Douglas Crosher, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
* Some math functions have been fixed, and there are new
optimizers for deriving the types of COERCE and ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE,
thanks to Raymond Toy's work on CMU CL, ported by Martin Atzmueller.
* (There are also some new optimizers in contrib/*-extras.lisp. Those
aren't built into sbcl-0.6.13, but are a sneak preview of what's
likely to be built into sbcl-0.7.0.)
* A bug in COPY-READTABLE was fixed. (Joao Cachopo's patch to CMU
CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
* DESCRIBE now gives more information in some cases. (Pierre Mai's
patch to CMU CL, ported to SBCL by Martin Atzmueller)
* Martin Atzmueller and Bill Newman fixed some bugs in INSPECT.
* There's a new slam.sh hack to shorten the edit/compile/debug
cycle for low-level changes to SBCL itself, and a new
:SB-AFTER-XC-CORE target feature to control the generation of
the after-xc.core file needed by slam.sh.
* minor incompatible change: The ENTRY-POINTS &KEY argument to
COMPILE-FILE is no longer supported, so that now every function
gets an entry point, so that block compilation looks a little
more like the plain vanilla ANSI section 3.2.2.3 scheme.
* minor incompatible change: SB-EXT:GET-BYTES-CONSED now
returns the number of bytes consed since the system started,
rather than the number consed since the first time the function
was called. (The new definition parallels ANSI functions like
CL:GET-INTERNAL-RUN-TIME.)
* minor incompatible change: The old CMU-CL-style DIRECTORY options,
i.e. :ALL, :FOLLOW-LINKS, and :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS, are no longer
supported. Now DIRECTORY always does the abstract Common-Lisp-y
thing, i.e. :ALL T :FOLLOW-LINKS T :CHECK-FOR-SUBDIRS T.
* Fasl file version numbers are now independent of the target CPU,
since historically most system changes which required version
number changes have affected all CPUs equally. Similarly,
the byte fasl file version is now equal to the ordinary
fasl file version.
--
William Harold Newman <william.newman@...>
Communication would be much more reliable if people would turn off the
gainy decompression. -- Del Cotter
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