sbcl-0.9.7 released

The sources are now available in CVS and on the SourceForge File
Releases page. Enjoy.

from the NEWS file in the distribution:
changes in sbcl-0.9.7 relative to sbcl-0.9.6:
  * minor incompatible change: (SETF CLASS-NAME) and (SETF
    GENERIC-FUNCTION-NAME) are no longer generic functions, and
    therefore are not customizeable by user code (as seems to be at
    least permitted and maybe required by AMOP).  As a consolation,
    however, the SBCL implementation of these functions now calls
    REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE as specified by AMOP.
  * bug fix: slot-definition documentation is propagated as per ANSI
    7.6.2 to EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITIONS.
    COMPUTE-EFFECTIVE-SLOT-DEFINITION now receives a :DOCUMENTATION
    argument, as do eslotd initialization methods.  (from Pascal
    Costanza's "Closer" project)
  * bug fix: REINITIALIZE-INSTANCE on generic functions calls
    COMPUTE-DISCRIMINATING-FUNCTION (almost) unconditionally, as
    specified by AMOP.
  * bug fix: it is now possible to have more than one subclass of
    STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION without causing stack overflow.
    (reported by Bruno Haible, Pascal Costanza and others)
  * bug fix: the dependent update protocol now works for generic
    functions.  (thanks to Gerd Moellmann; reported by Bruno Haible
    and Pascal Costanza)
  * bug fix: condition-class instances corresponding to
    DEFINE-CONDITION forms are now created eagerly.  (reported by
    Kalle Olavi Niemitalo on comp.lang.lisp)
  * bug fix: floating point printing is more accurate in some
    circumstances.  (thanks to Simon Alexander)
  * bug fix: *COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME* now contains the user's pathname
    merged with *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*.
  * bug fix: callbacks on OS X now preserve stack-alignment.
    (thanks to Cyrus Harmon)
  * enhancement: the x86-64 disassembler is much better at
    disassembling SSE instructions.  (thanks to Lutz Euler)
  * enhancement: CHECK-TYPE on a variable now allows type-inference
    (thanks to Vincent Arkesteijn)
  * optimization: improved performance of EUC-JP external format.
    (thanks to NIIMI Satoshi)
  * optimization: performance improvements to IO on file streams of
    :ELEMENT-TYPE CHARACTER
  * optimization: much faster memory allocation on x86-64
  * optimization: faster garbage collections (latency and throughput)
    on gencgc
  * optimization: faster bignum subtraction and division on x86 and x86-64 
    (thanks to Lutz Euler)
  * optimization: more accurate type-inference for loops that use a
    floating point index variable or a negative step.

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