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@@ -4,10 +4,20 @@ See the end for copying conditions.
 
 Please send Guile bug reports to bug-guile@gnu.org.
 \f
+Changes since the stable branch:
+
+** Variables have no longer a special behavior for `equal?'.
+
+Previously, comparing two variables with `equal?' would recursivly
+compare their values.  This is no longer done.  Variables are now only
+`equal?' if they are `eq?'.
+
 Changes since Guile 1.4:
 
 * Changes to the distribution
 
+** A top-level TODO file is included.
+
 ** Guile now uses a versioning scheme similar to that of the Linux kernel.
 
 Guile now always uses three numbers to represent the version,
@@ -35,6 +45,22 @@ The new configure option `--enable-deprecated=LEVEL' and the
 environment variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED control this mechanism.
 See INSTALL and README for more information.
 
+** New functions: setitimer and getitimer.
+
+These implement a fairly direct interface to the libc functions of the
+same name.
+
+** The #. reader extension is now disabled by default.
+
+For safety reasons, #. evaluation is disabled by default.  To
+re-enable it, set the fluid read-eval? to #t.  For example:
+
+  (fluid-set! read-eval? #t)
+
+but make sure you realize the potential security risks involved.  With
+read-eval?  enabled, reading a data file from an untrusted source can
+be dangerous.
+
 ** New SRFI modules have been added:
 
 SRFI-0 `cond-expand' is now supported in Guile, without requiring
@@ -45,6 +71,8 @@ using a module.
 
 (srfi srfi-2) exports and-let*.
 
+(srfi srfi-4) implements homogeneous numeric vector datatypes.
+
 (srfi srfi-6) is a dummy module for now, since guile already provides
   all of the srfi-6 procedures by default: open-input-string,
   open-output-string, get-output-string.
@@ -139,7 +167,7 @@ can be used for similar functionality.
 ** New module (ice-9 rw)
 
 This is a subset of the (scsh rw) module from guile-scsh.  Currently
-it defines two single procedures:
+it defines two procedures:
 
 *** New function: read-string!/partial str [port_or_fdes [start [end]]]
 
@@ -228,6 +256,14 @@ default.
 
 * Changes to Scheme functions and syntax
 
+** Character classifiers work for non-ASCII characters.
+
+The predicates `char-alphabetic?', `char-numeric?',
+`char-whitespace?', `char-lower?', `char-upper?' and `char-is-both?'
+no longer check whether their arguments are ASCII characters.
+Previously, a character would only be considered alphabetic when it
+was also ASCII, for example.
+
 ** Previously deprecated Scheme functions have been removed:
 
   tag - no replacement.
@@ -653,6 +689,14 @@ Use module system operations for all variables.
 That is, a call to `throw', `error', etc is now guaranteed to not
 return.
 
+** Bugfix for (ice-9 getopt-long)
+
+Parsing for options that are specified to have `optional' args now checks if
+the next element is an option instead of unconditionally taking it as the
+option arg.
+
+Also, this module is now tested using test-suite/tests/getopt-long.test.
+
 * Changes to the C interface
 
 ** Types have been renamed from scm_*_t to scm_t_*.
@@ -701,6 +745,34 @@ Guile.
 
 Instead, use scm_c_memq or scm_memq, scm_memv, scm_member.
 
+** New functions: scm_call_0, scm_call_1, scm_call_2, scm_call_3
+
+Call a procedure with the indicated number of arguments.
+
+Example:
+
+  scm_call_1 (proc, arg1);
+
+** New functions: scm_apply_0, scm_apply_1, scm_apply_2, scm_apply_3
+
+Call a procedure with the indicated number of arguments and a list
+of arguments.
+
+Example:
+
+  scm_apply_1 (proc, arg1, args);
+
+** New functions: scm_list_1, scm_list_2, scm_list_3, scm_list_4, scm_list_5
+
+Create a list of the given number of elements.
+
+** Renamed function: scm_listify has been replaced by scm_list_n.
+
+** Deprecated macros: SCM_LIST0, SCM_LIST1, SCM_LIST2, SCM_LIST3, SCM_LIST4,
+SCM_LIST5, SCM_LIST6, SCM_LIST7, SCM_LIST8, SCM_LIST9.
+
+Use functions scm_list_N instead.
+
 ** New function: scm_c_read (SCM port, void *buffer, scm_sizet size)
 
 Used by an application to read arbitrary number of bytes from a port.
@@ -996,7 +1068,7 @@ Made more compliant with the naming policy by adding a _t at the end.
 ** Deprecated functions: scm_mkbig, scm_big2num, scm_adjbig,
    scm_normbig, scm_copybig, scm_2ulong2big, scm_dbl2big, scm_big2dbl
 
-With the exception of the misterious scm_2ulong2big, they are still
+With the exception of the mysterious scm_2ulong2big, they are still
 available under new names (scm_i_mkbig etc).  These functions are not
 intended to be used in user code.  You should avoid dealing with
 bignums directly, and should deal with numbers in general (which can