Release Notes

Here are the release notes for various selected versions of CMUCL.

• Release 20f, 2014/10/04
  • Support for x87 dropped
  • fdlibm
• Release 20e, 2013/09/28
  • First release supporting only unicode
• Release 20d, 2012/10/27
  • Last release with support for 8-bit chars
• Release 20c, 2011/11/02
• Release 20b, 2010/09/27
  • Static (non-movable) arrays
• Release 20a, 2009/10/28,
  • Unicode support
• Release 19f, 2009/03/11,
  • SSE2 support
• Release 19e, 2008/04/30
  • Mac OS X on Intel
• Release 19d, 2006/11/14,
  • DOUBLE-DOUBLE support
  • Hash tables supporting weak value, weak key-and-value, and weak key-or-value.
• Release 19c, 2005/11/14
  • XREF support via compile-file :xref
• Release 19b, 2005/06/26
  • Mac OS X on PPC
  • NetBSD on x86
• Release 19a, 2004/07/27
  • Package locks
  • Hash tables with weak keys
  • Callbacks from foreign code to lisp (x86 and sparc)
  • Modular arithmetic (x86 and sparc)
  • Gencgc for sparc.
• Release 18f: There was no 18f release, skipping immediately to 19a.
• Release 18e, 2003/04/13
  • Karatsuba multiplier
  • Linkage tables
  • Cross-reference
  • Last release for Alpha on Linux
  • Last release for x86 on OpenBSD.
  • Last release for MIPS on SGI/Irix..
• Release 18d, 2002/04/09
  • OpenBSD/x86
• Release 18c, 2000/11/27
  • Support for (complex single-float) and (complex double-float)
• Release 18b, 1998/07/20
  • Last release for Alpha on Digital Unix.
• Release 18a, 1997/09/11
  • Last release for PA-RISC on HP/UX.
  • Last release for Sparc on SunOS..

Older releases, before open era of CMUCL

• Release 17f, 1994/11
• Release 17e, 1994/03/11
• Release 17c, 1993/09/19
• Release 16f, 1992/12/11
• Release 16e, 1992/08/05
• Release 16d, 1992/05/30
• Release 15e, 1992/02/25
• Release 15d, 1992/02/02
• Release 15b, 1991/10/19
• Release 14c, 1991/06/06