Hi!
A new release is available from
http://weitz.de/files/cl-ppcre.tgz.
Here's the relevant part from the changelog:
Version 0.9.0 2004-10-14 Experimental support for "filters" Bugfix for standalone regular expressions (ACCUMULATE-START-P wasn't set to NIL)
Have fun, Edi.
cl-ppcre-devel@common-lisp.net