With gentle prodding, we have released ABCL 1.7.1, a decidedly minor release correcting a few bugs resulting from the overhaul of arrays specialized on unsigned byte types. The brief list of CHANGES is a available for your perusal. <https://abcl.org/releases/1.7.1/> <https://abcl.org/svn/tags/1.7.1/CHANGES>. "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare to it now."