sbcl-1.3.17 released

Christophe Rhodes <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:48:21 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.steel-bank.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear all,

I have released and uploaded sbcl-1.3.17; source and an x86-64 binary
are now available for download from sourceforge.  The substantive
changes in this release are appended to this message.

Best wishes,

Christophe

changes in sbcl-1.3.17 relative to sbcl-1.3.16:
  * enhancement: memory overhead from the garbage collector's metadata
    is reduced on 64-bit architectures; no change for 32-bit.
  * enhancement: further garbage collector speedups affecting
    pinned objects on conservative backends, and simple-vectors.
  * enhancement: on Linux a custom handler for SIGSEGV can be called
    for page faults outside of dynamic space by changing the C symbol
    "sbcl_fallback_sigsegv_handler".
  * bug fix: sb-cover does not lose source positions for AND/OR/COND.
  * bug fix: random disassembler failures. (lp#1527931)
  * The bundled sb-md5 contrib has been updated to release 2.0.4
    which is licensed under Creative Commons CC0 per author's statement
    https://github.com/pmai/md5/commit/fd134e71b71a10ab78905833a7cb9d4d6817c589
    (Refer to NEWS and COPYING in the contrib/sb-md5 subdirectory)


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