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[mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.1 is now available.
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 05 Nov '12

05 Nov '12

MKCL 1.1.1 is now available for general use. It is a bug fix release that restore proper access to the compiler::build-program facility from the command line and corrects problems with foreign thread importation functions. Enjoy!

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Re: [mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.0 is now publicly available as a stable version
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 18 Sep '12

18 Sep '12

MKCL 1.1.0, is now available for general use. Changes from MKCL 1.1.0 RC4 were: 1) An ABORT restart has been added at the top of each lisp thread to be used as a default target by (abort). Typically invocation of that restart will result in an unwinding of the thread's stack up to its root followed by an orderly final wrap-up of the thread. The only exceptions to this behavior are MKCL standard daemon threads that will then return to their wait point instead of wrapping up. 2) A problem has been identified in the RC4 update of the SLIME bundled version with respect to the transmission of non-ascii characters between Emacs and the Swank server. The problem has been fixed in this version. On to MKCL 1.2.0, which will include new features and new platforms. Enjoy, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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Re: [mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.0 RC4 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 28 Aug '12

28 Aug '12

MKCL 1.1.0 RC4, is now available for general use. Contrib packages have been updated to the following levels: ASDF 2.24 alexandria 2012/08/14 babel 2012/08/13 cffi 0.10.7.1 bordeaux-threads 0.8.2 fiveam-1.0 slime 2012/08/18 Quicklisp is now officially supported. Boehm's GC has been updated to 7.2d in order for MKCL to work properly with gcc 4.6 and later, as mentioned in the NEWS section of MKCL's web page. RC4 is most probably the last release candidate in the 1.1.0 effort. It will be promoted as is to full stable release status two weeks from now if no significant bug is reported in the meantime. Enjoy, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.0 RC3 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 05 Aug '12

05 Aug '12

MKCL 1.1.0 RC3, is now available for general use. ASDF has been upgraded to 2.23.6. Note that initial default value of asdf:*central-registry* is now NIL, which is significantly different from the previous version (2.011). You may have to adjust your environment accordingly. The Quicklisp port preview previously mentioned on mkcl-devel is also expected to be fully functional, please report if it is not. On Win64, the prebuild installation package had to back away from gcc 4.7.1 down to gcc 4.5.4 following a report of bad code optimization in gcc 4.7.X and gcc 4.6.X on x86_64 for some version of Intel Core2 CPUs. There is no loss of functionality in MKCL because of this. > Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.0 RC2 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 22 Jul '12

22 Jul '12

MKCL 1.1.0 RC2, is now available for general use. This release candidate fixes a good number of bugs, some of which were of critical level and had plagued MKCL since its fork from ECL. Among them stack overflow which is now properly handled even in the context of the GC. RC2 is expected to be the last inner looking step in the 1.1.0 release process. The upcoming RC3 will rather look outward by updating and expanding the set of "contrib" packages bundled with MKCL. Noted additions will be Quicklisp (port almost done) and CL+J. Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.1.0 RC1 is now available
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 30 Apr '12

30 Apr '12

The latest beta version of ManKai Common Lisp, MKCL 1.1.0 RC1, is now available for general use. Its key new features are: 1. Standard Unicode support: Unicode is now a standard feature of MKCL and can be used anywhere in it. Code can use symbols with Unicode names as well as strings, in compiled or interpreted format. File names can also use any legal Unicode character if the surrounding OS allows it. This is also valid for the whole of file paths used for source code to be processed by #'compile-file. 2. MKCL is now truly embeddable for the first time! This is so thanks to the following new characteristics: 1. The whole of MKCL has been purged of calls to exit() or abort(). Thus MKCL never arbitrarily terminates the process it runs in through any of them. MKCL will always properly return control to its embedding outer context. 2. Every externally visible C symbol of MKCL is prefixed by one of the character sequences "mk", "_mk", "MK" or "_MK" in order to minimize potential clashes with embedding C code. 3. Careful attention as been devoted to assure that MKCL shares common process-wide resources with the rest of its process neighbors as fairly as possible and with little or no unilateral demands on them, waiving any pretense of monopoly. This concerns mainly environment variables, general memory management (including GC) and signal/exception handling. (In a Unix context, MKCL's code is ready to support chaining of signal handlers). 3. Finalization of objects is now done in a separate dedicated thread. This implements the finalization architecture strongly recommended by Hans Boehm, author of the conservative GC used by MKCL. Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.0.1 is out.
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 22 Jul '11

22 Jul '11

MKCL 1.0.1 is a bug fix release in the 1.0 series. It corrects a number of bugs, mostly in the area of CLOS class shared slots and unusual pathnames (like #P"..."). Enjoy, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[mkcl-announce] MKCL 1.0.0 stable full release is out!
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 01 Jun '11

01 Jun '11

MKCL 1.0.0 is finally out as a stable full release! Thank you very much to all of you (you know who you are) that privately contributed to this outcome. I appreciate your support. I have high hopes that this the beginning of a very long run that will prove MKCL to be one of the most solid and stable Common Lisp environments ever. Cheers, Jean-Claude Beaudoin

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[mkcl-announce] Release Candidate 7 is out!
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 17 May '11

17 May '11

RC7 is the happy conclusion of the performance tuning effort for version 1.0.0. With proper type annotation, MKCL can now generate near-optimal code that brings it to (and sometimes exceeds) the top of the class speed-wise on the large majority of benchmarks of cl-bench. Release Candidate 7 will from now on enter a 2 to 3 weeks probation period that will bring the 1.0.0 release process to its conclusion provided that no major new bug is reported before the end of this probation period.

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[mkcl-announce] Release Candidate 6 is out!
by Jean-Claude Beaudoin 20 Feb '11

20 Feb '11

RC6 is a significant performance tuning step for the most part. Code controlling floating-point exception handling has also been entirely reworked. The --enable-unicode option is now working again but is still off by default and remains experimental. The performance difficulties were considered serious enough to postpone the completion of the 1.0.0 release process. There will be one last release candidate (7) before final release. It will complete the performance tuning, fix a few minor issues in slime and be a general opportunity to clean-up the source code.

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