On behalf of the developers of ABCL (Armed Bear Common Lisp) - a lisp implementation running on the JVM - I'm glad to be able to announce the 0.15.0 release.

This release features - among lots of other things - changes to support Google App Engine, another round of improvements in handling of special variables (compiled code) and a lot of improvements on handling closures (compiled code). Measured by the number of failing ANSI tests, this release is only a small step: most improvements were not detected as errors. Additionally some work has been done on improving performance. For a full list of changes see [1].

If you have questions regarding its license or use, or you find issues, please report back to the development list:

armedbear-devel at common-lisp dot net

The sources can be downloaded in ZIP or .tar.gz form from SourceForge:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abc/abcl-src-0.15.0.tgz http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abc/abcl-src-0.15.0.zip

Signatures will become available shortly. When they do, they will be available under:

http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abc/abcl-src-0.15.0.tgz.asc http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abc/abcl-src-0.15.0.zip.asc

Bye,

Erik.

[1] http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/browser/trunk/abcl/CHANGES