Old News from 20d and Later

Snapshot 2013-09::

The 2013-09 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• ​DISASSEMBLE is now ANSI compliant; no other arguments are allowed. Use DISAASSEM:DISASSEMBLE if you need more options.
• The disassembler now defaults to printing disassembly in base 16 (without radix marker) and in lower case. If you want other options, use DISASSEM:DISASSEMBLE.
• New keyword args for DISASSEM:DISASSEMBLE: base, case, radix to specify the base, print case, and radix. The defaults are 16, :downcase, and NIL, respectively.
• Some optimizations in the x86 backend to speed up some operations and reduce register restrictions.

Snapshot 2013-08

The 2013-08 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Improve type-derivation for variables declared as FLOAT.
• Optimize x86 move, length/list, and more-args VOPS.

Snapshot 2013-07

The 2013-07 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

The changes are small for this snapshot, mostly because the main Mac build machine was updated to Mac OS X 10.8 from 10.6.

• ASDF 3.0.2

Snapshot 2013-06

The 2013-06 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• ASDF 3.0.1
• The Unicode extensions for CL:STRING-UPCASE and friends have been removed. You can find the extensions in UNICODE:STRING-UPCASE and friends.
• REVERSE on strings is much faster
• REVERSE on strings no longer preserves the order of surrogate pairs; they are reversed now, as required.
• Some fixes to make cross-compiles from x86 to sparc work again.

Snapshot 2013-05

The 2013-05 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Cleanup of the Config files, including removing outdated or unused Configs.
• Some speedups in gencgc for most platforms, including Darwin, Linux, and Sparc.

In addition, the ppc and x86/solaris ports have been updated to this snapshot.

Snapshot 2013-04

The 2013-04 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between the this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• Fix startup crashes on some Debian Linux versions. This was caused by the release string not having a patch version.
• FILE-POSITION no longer returns incorrect values. See ticket #79.
• Fix error in (format t "~ve" 21 5d-324). (See ticket #80).

Snapshot 2013-03-a

Due to a serious error (see ticket #76) introduced in 2013-02 and persisting in 2013-03, a new snapshot, 2013-03-a has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between the this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• ASDF updated to version 2.32.
• Update to support Unicode 6.2
• Ticket #76 fixed.

Snapshot 2013-03

The 2013-03 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between the this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• ASDF updated to version 2.30.
• Attempts to modify the standard readtable or standard pprint dispatch table will signal an error.
• An error in FILE-POSITION has been fixed (Ticket #74).
• Ticket #74 fixed.

2013-02-20

Due to a mistake, the Linux snapshots for 2013-02 were missing support for alien callbacks. This has been corrected and new binaries have been uploaded. Look for cmucl-2013-02-a-x86-linux* in the snapshot directory.

Snapshot 2013-02

The 2013-02 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between the this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• ASDF updated to version 2.28.
• DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO has source-location information for the macro definition.
• Ticket #65 fixed.
• Ticket #69 fixed.
• Ticket #70 fixed.
• Ticket #71 fixed.
• Ticket #72 fixed.

In addition, there is a binary for ppc on Mac OSX. Thanks to Toby Thain for providing access to a Mac g5 box.

Snapshot 2013-01

The 2013-01 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between the this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• DEFINE-COMPILER-MACRO has source-location information for the definition.
• :ALIEN-CALLBACK added to *FEATURES* for platforms that support alien callbacks. This is currently available for all supported platforms.
• REPLACE can now handle strings of any supported size.
• Ticket #66 fixed
• Ticket #67 fixed
• Ticket #68 fixed:

Snapshot 2012-12

The 2012-12 snapshot has been released. See the release notes for details, but here is a quick summary of the changes between the this snapshot and the previous snapshot.

• ASDF2 updated to 2.26
• Unicode completion has been reverted to the older version due to the inability to complete #\hangul_syllable_. Trac ticket:52 reopened.
• Starting with this snapshot, only the unicode version of CMUCL is officially supported. The 8-bit version and code will not be deleted, but binaries will no longer be supplied for the 8-bit (non-unicode) version.

CMUCL 20d released

CMUCL 20d has been released, For information on the changes between 20d and 20c, we refer the reader to the 20d release notes or to the 20d release notes text file.

Because of the release, there will not be a 2012-11 snapshot.