Dear ABCL developers,

ASDF 2.27 was a major rewrite of ASDF, and everything since then should be considered as candidate releases for ASDF 3: http://lists.common-lisp.net/pipermail/asdf-announce/2013-February/000014.ht...

ASDF 2.28 was released shortly after 2.27, without an announcement, to fix an issue found by Stelian Ionescu using TEST-OP on some systems.

ASDF 2.29 is a stability release, with which I'm once again inviting implementers to update the ASDF they distribute.

Please update ABCL to use ASDF 2.29.

NB: I haven't looked at ASDF-JAR yet, but it would probably be a good thing to merge it with our bundle support.

Since ASDF 2.27, ASDF 2.29 further brings:

* deferred-warnings support for Allegro, CMUCL, SCL; fixes to the CCL support.

* Upgrade fixes regarding fallback system versions; making it possible (via massive use of eval-when) to compile ASDF without loading it first.

* Compatibility with private use of :D package nickname by not claiming it for package ASDF/DRIVER anymore. Also explicitly handle NIL in safe-file-write-date, in case the implementation doesn't issue a file-error in that case; make UTF-8 the default encoding for with-input-file. Be portable to #+(and sbcl (not sb-eval)).

* Bugfixes to old bugs: inline-methods can now be unqualified (lp#485393), defsystem-depends-on accepts arbitrary specs, not just names (lp#1027521).

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