Steel Bank Common Lisp

News

New SBCL versions are usually released at the end of each month: check the Sourceforge File List to see the current version. The new features of the two most recent SBCL releases are listed below.

Please see the complete news page for details on all historical SBCL releases.

New in version 2.0.8 Back to top platform support: added support for NetBSD/ARM64; threads on Linux now have OS-visible names; removed unnecessary emulation of pthread functions on Windows; work around a sigwait() bug on Mac OS X; allow safepoint build on Mac OS X, though it probably doesn't work very well (reported by Chris Wagner, #1382811) removed stub support for HPUX.

optimization: SB-THREAD:MAKE-THREAD is faster on most platforms.

optimization: faster RATIONAL when the result is a RATIO.

optimization: improved cross-type comparisons (float/ratio/bignum).

bug fix: EQUALP on pathnames was wrong

bug fixes: fix compiler issues in: COUNT (#1889391) VECTOR-LENGTH (#1888919) constant-folding (#1888384) FIND and POSITION (#1887316)

