To address a question that came up on #abcl: what is the difference between the abcl-1.1.0 and abcl-1.1.0.2 releases?

The short answer is that there should be no difference. The release of abcl-1.1.0 (and accompanying signatures) were updated "in-place" within twenty-four hours of their release.

As stated in the abcl-1.1.0.2 release announcement, the only known initial difference between the 1.1.0 and 1.1.0.2 releases of ABCL was that somehow the ABCL-CONTRIB ASDF definition in 1.1.0 was syntactically invalid as it included an extra comma (",") character preventing it from loading. After this was discovered, the abcl-1.1.0 release was rebuilt and "updated" in place on common-lisp.net. Because googlecode requires that published URIs point idempotently to their resources over time (probably to make universal distribution easier) a release designated abcl-1.1.0.2 release was made to googlecode.com

If there are any observed differences between the two releases, I would appreciate knowing more details accompanied by information on how the distribution was obtained.