sbcl-2.6.5 released
Christophe Rhodes via Sbcl-announce <[email protected]> Fri, 29 May 2026 20:59:11 +0100
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Dear all,
SBCL 2.6.5 is now released! Notable changes in this release are
summarized below. As ever, any and all feedback welcome.
Christophe
changes in sbcl-2.6.5 relative to sbcl-2.6.4:
* minor incompatible change: the condition signalled when an accessed slot
is missing from an object is no longer a TYPE-ERROR.
* minor incompatible change: the condition signalled when accessing an
uninitialized structure slot is no longer a TYPE-ERROR.
* minor incompatible change: the implementations of standardized functions
treating lists as sets, such as INTERSECTION and UNION, take more
advantage of the freedom to return the elements of the result in any
order.
* platform support:
** add low-level support for floating point state manipulation on
PPC64/FreeBSD. (thanks to Piotr Kubaj)
** improve the software emulation of displaced instructions on ARM64.
** restore building the system using the musl C library. (lp#2153432,
reported by Tom Gillespie)
** fix some SB-SIMD shifting instructions on AVX2. (lp#2152791, reported
by Willem Broekema)
* enhancement: definition sources for alien callbacks are now findable by
name in SB-INTROSPECT.
* bug fix: the SYMBOL restart for finding packages now actually performs a
non-local exit. (lp#2153092, reported by Zach Shaftel)
* bug fix: TYPEP on large disjoint numeric union types compiles faster using
fewer resources. (lp#2151818, reported by James McDonald)
* bug fix: strings of arbitrary size with fill-pointer set to 1 are
character designators. (reported by _death)
* bug fix: the KEEP-OLD restart established by ADD-PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAME
keeps the old nickname instead of going ahead with the change (and the
restart report function no longer returns from ADD-PACKAGE-LOCAL-NICKNAME).
* bug fix: when EXPORT results in a conflict between symbols exported by
different used packages, the TAKE-NEW restart now shadowing-imports the
new symbol instead of doing nothing and leaving the package in an
inconsistent state.
* bug fix: the SB-EVAL interpreter checks program syntax more thoroughly.
* bug fix: compiler cross-reference data is decoded correctly for a
functional with more than one entry for a given name.
* bug fix: TYPE-ERRORs signalled by SBCL are more likely to have a DATUM
that is not of the condition's EXPECTED-TYPE.
* bug fix: the code walker no longer uses the stack to walk PROGN bodies.
* optimization: in various situations, INTERSECTION and UNION will use
hash-tables to perform the operation more quickly.