sbcl-1.3.13 released

Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> Sat, 31 Dec 2016 10:03:34 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear all,

I have released sbcl-1.3.13, and uploaded source and an x86-64/linux
binary to sourceforge; some other binaries will no doubt trickle in over
the next few days.  The changes in this release are appended below; I
expect to make another release earlier than usual in the month of
January, to harmonize better with Debian's freeze period.

Best wishes for the new year,

Christophe

changes in sbcl-1.3.13 relative to sbcl-1.3.12:
  * enhancement: SET triggers package locks on undefined variables.
    (lp#1645152)
  * enhancement: new Windows specific option to run-program, :escape-arguments
    (lp#1503496)
  * enhancement: recompiling a MAKE-INSTANCE form with an initarg :INITARG
    CONSTANT where CONSTANT names a constant variable picks up the new value
    of CONSTANT in case it has been redefined. (lp#1644944)
  * optimization: faster TYPEP on undefined at compile-time types and upcoming
    class definitions. (lp#1082967)
  * optimization: memory consumption of each STANDARD-OBJECT instance is
    reduced by 2 words if the compact-instance-header feature is enabled.
  * optimization: CONDITION instances are quicker to allocate.
  * optimization: unoptimized calls to FILL on specialized vectors are now
    just as fast as T vectors. 
  * bug fix: get-timezone returns corret DST on 64-bit Windows. (lp#1641058)
  * bug fix: cross reference information in fasls is no longer incompatible
    between different cores (lp#1648186)


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