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ABCL 1.9.2 FOR MIDSUMMER'S EVE
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On the threshold of the Northern Hemisphere's Midsummer's Eve, we unveil
the second revision of the Tenth Edition of the Armed Bear Common Lisp
implementation, viz. abcl-1.9.2.
Most notably, we are pleased to present the fruits of Alejandro Zamora
Fonseca's labors on an interpreted implementation of CL:STEP with the
first release of the ABCL-STEPPER contrib. See
<https://abcl.org/svn/tags/1.9.2/contrib/abcl-stepper/README.markdown>
for more details. This implementation was the subject of his
demonstration <https://zenodo.org/record/7815887> as this year's
European Lisp Symposium.
The POSIX-SYSCALLS contrib now provides the ability to set environment
variables under UNIX systems <https://abcl.org/trac/changeset/15700>, as
well as providing an example of how best to add abstract additional
functionality to the core implementation.
This release also features a substantially re-worked Gray Stream
implementation which fixes enough our implementation to be a first class
citizen of SLIME's usage. With the next release of SLIME, one will have
to use abcl-1.9.2 in order to use the slime-repl. See
<https://github.com/slime/slime/pull/765> for more details.
The ASDF-JAR contrib has been restored to a usable functionality, which
includes re-packaging of ASDF systems from within jar files as well as
better abstraction for finding non-source artifacts. Please refer to
<https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/-/blob/master/contrib/asdf-jar/REA…>
for a refresher on what facilities ASDF-JAR provides for the aspiring
ASDF packager.
A complete list of changes may be viewed at
<https://abcl.org/svn/tags/1.9.2/CHANGES>.
The release itself is available at <https://abcl.org/releases/1.9.2/>.
--
"A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing
to compare to it now."
