William Harold Newman | 31 Aug 2004 20:32

SBCL 0.8.14 released

sbcl-0.8.14 has been released.

Historically I have signed releases with MD5. Now, since MD5
collisions were reported at the Crypto conference and some doubt was
cast on SHA-1 too -- see, e.g.,
  http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/archives/000664.html
-- I am unsure how best to sign releases. Probably I'll figure
something out by next month (or just learn what the new consensus on
best practice is, and crib from that). For this month, though, no
signatures.

from the NEWS file in the distribution:
changes in sbcl-0.8.14 relative to sbcl-0.8.13:
  * incompatible change: the internal functions
    SB-KERNEL:32BIT-LOGICAL-FOO, intended for providing efficient
    logical operations on (UNSIGNED-BYTE 32) values, have been renamed
    to SB-KERNEL:WORD-LOGICAL-FOO.  Modular arithmetic should be used
    instead of the old functions.
  * new feature: on platforms where "dladdr" is available foreign
    function names now appear in backtraces.  (based on Helmut Eller's
    work for CMUCL)
  * documentation: documentation for SB-BSD-SOCKETS, SB-GRAY, 
    SB-SIMPLE-STREAMS, and SB-PROFILE have been integrated into the user 
    manual. 
  * documentation: ASDF manual is now distributed with SBCL.
  * bug fix: SBCL can now load its contributed modules with REQUIRE
    even if the system-provided entries have been removed from
    ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*. Infinite recursion in REQUIRE is also
    detected.
  * bug fix: backtraces involving undefined functions or assembly
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