I would like to dedicate this ASDF release to the late Elias Pipping.  On a technical level, Elias made great improvements in some of the most challenging ASDF internals, notably the RUN-PROGRAM component of UIOP, a place where implementations are not constrained by the language specification, diverge radically from each other, and are poorly documented.  On a personal level, Elias was very supportive to me as ASDF maintainer, and while I was going through an illness.  He did all these things despite being gravely ill with the cancer that eventually killed him.  He will be greatly missed,