The McCLIM developers are happy to release version 0.9.4 of McCLIM, code-named "Orthodox New Year". This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations:

This release includes some great improvements, from a new editor substrate ("DREI") to many cool new features in the Gtkairo backend, and many compatibility enhancements and extensions to the core of McCLIM.

Note that due to the radical changes introduced by the new editor substrate, some bugs may surface in day-to-day use. Refer to the section "Known Bugs" in the included release notes for details.

When testing this release, we found that it works on the following implementations:

* SBCL * OpenMCL * CLISP * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode

For compatibility with other implementations, please see the attached release notes.

Get the tarball at http://common-lisp.net/project/mcclim/downloads/mcclim-0.9.4.tar.gz or install McCLIM via asdf-install.

We are looking forward to your comments and bug reports. Please send them to mcclim-devel at common-lisp.net. The list of currently known bugs can be found at http://mcclim.cliki.net/Bug.

Have fun using McCLIM, The McCLIM developers.

RELEASE NOTES FOR McCLIM 0.9.4, "Orthodox New Year":

Compatibility =============

This release was tested and found to work on the following implementations:

* SBCL * OpenMCL * CLISP * Allegro Common Lisp 8.0 in ANSI Mode

In our tests, this release of McCLIM did not work on the following implementations:

* CMUCL (at the time of this release, the released CMUCL has a bug that prevents successful loading of McCLIM; CMUCL 19d + patch 1 and the 2006-12 snapshot or later contain a fix for this problem)

Also, McCLIM currently does not support lisps with case-sensitive readers (ACL "modern mode" and lower-case SCL).

Known Bugs ==========

Due to the radical changes introduced by the new editor substrate, some bugs may surface in day-to-day use. We would very much like to hear about them on mcclim-devel@common-lisp.net. As a work-around, you can enable the old input substrate by using (setf climi::*use-goatee* t) on the REPL when clim is loaded.

The following bugs are known to exist:

* McCLIM freetype can interact poorly with Drei under some circumstances * Drei does not handle most reader macros well * Sometimes, the ENTER key is not very responsive when editing forms with Drei * Calling stream-input-buffer is still buggy.

Changes in mcclim-0.9.4 "Orthodox New Year" relative to 0.9.3: ==============================================================

From the NEWS file:

* cleanup: removed the obsolete system.lisp file. * backend improvements: Gtkairo ** Double buffering is now supported (fixes disappearing widgets on Windows). ** X errors no longer terminate the lisp process. ** Some bugfixes, including CMUCL support and better key event handling. ** Native implementation of context menus, list panes, label panes, and option panes. ** Draw text using Pango. (Bug fix: Fixed-width font supported on Windows now. Multiple lines of output in TEXT-SIZE supported now. TEXT-STYLE-FIXED-WIDTH-P works correctly now.) * Improvement: Added new editor substrate ("Drei"). * Improvement: Improved the pathname presentation methods considerably. * specification compliance: DELETE-GESTURE-NAME function now implemented. * specification compliance: PRESENTATION-TYPE-SPECIFIER-P presentaion function now implemented. * specification compliance: DISPLAY-COMMAND-TABLE-MENU function now implemented. * specification compliance: DISPLAY-COMMAND-MENU function now implemented. * specification compliance: POINTER-PLACE-RUBBER-BAND-LINE* function now implemented. * specification compliance: POINTER-INPUT-RECTANGLE* function now implemented. * specification compliance: POINTER-INPUT-RECTANGLE function now implemented. * Improvement: Added font listing support, see section "Fonts and Extended Text Styles" in the manual. * Improvement: Added support for bezier splines (Robert Strandh). To be documented. * better PRESENTATION-SUBTYPEP (more likely to give the right answer on some-of and all-of presentation types) * Improvement: M-n/M-p gestures for navigating presentation histories.