diff --git a/general-info/release-20a.txt b/general-info/release-20a.txt index 5c5f3a85cd871605e33c02d25a34d4229029cd77..347aee8afa785036b85cded51bee1dd49c7bdec7 100644 --- a/general-info/release-20a.txt +++ b/general-info/release-20a.txt @@ -57,7 +57,9 @@ New in this release: o Symbols are always normalized to NFC form. - WRITE-VECTOR and READ-VECTOR support vectors of with element - sizes of 1 bit, 2 bits and 4 bits. + sizes of 1 bit, 2 bits and 4 bits. For :NETWORK-ORDER, the + bytes are written such that the lowest indexed element is + written to the most significant part of a byte. * ANSI compliance fixes: @@ -75,6 +77,24 @@ New in this release: (Confusion about the length of the vector versus the index as an octet count, not element count.) - Motif (CLM) should work with Unicode. + - The stream created by WITH-INPUT-FROM-STREAM was not properly + closed. + - SXHASH was returning different values for -0f0 and -0d0 for + compiled and interpreted code. The both return the same value + now. + - Some issues with potential spurious floating-point exceptions + with complex arithmetic on x86 with SSE2 have been fixed. + (Random junk in unused parts of an sse2 register could cause + spurious FP exceptions.) + - Numeric contagion for complex + real and complex - real was not + done correctly in compiled code. Proper contagion is now done + by converting the real to a complex before performing the + operation. + - CMUCL can now handle the X11 local Unix display connection on + Mac OS X. + - SETF-SLOT-VALUE-USING-CLASS-DFUN no longer signals errors when + checking the new value against the declared slot type when the + declared slot type was too hairy for TYPEP. * Trac Tickets: #31: pathname bug with :case :common @@ -85,6 +105,11 @@ New in this release: - SOFTWARE-VERSION may return different results than previously. UNIX:UNIX-UNAME is now used to obtain the software version on Linux and Solaris. + - User's manual updated with a section on internalization + (unicode). + - DESCRIBE on characters includes the character's code and name. + - CLX updated to the portable clx version from Christophe Rhodes + darcs repository of 2009-06-16. * Improvements to the PCL implementation of CLOS: