[armedbear-cvs] r11756 - public_html

Tue Apr 14 09:24:22 UTC 2009

Author: ehuelsmann
Date: Tue Apr 14 05:24:17 2009
New Revision: 11756

Log:
Update website to agree with latest release status.

Added:
   public_html/release-notes-0.14.shtml
Modified:
   public_html/index.shtml

Modified: public_html/index.shtml
==============================================================================

--- public_html/index.shtml	(original)
+++ public_html/index.shtml	Tue Apr 14 05:24:17 2009
@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@
 <tr>
 <th colspan="2">Overview</th></tr>
 <tr>
-<td>Latest release: <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:85%">0.0.13</span></td>
-<td><a href="release-notes-0.13.shtml">Release notes</a></td>
+<td>Latest release: <span style="font-weight:bold;font-size:85%">0.14.1</span></td>
+<td><a href="release-notes-0.14.shtml">Release notes</a></td>
 </tr><tr>
 <td style="width:5cm;text-align:center" colspan="2"><a href="testimonials.shtml">What people say about ABCL</a></td>
 </tr><tr>
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@
       <br /><br />
       ABCL is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
       <br /><br />
-      The latest version is 0.13.0, released February 28, 2009.
+      The latest version is 0.14.1, released April 5, 2009.
   </dd>
 </dl>
 
@@ -76,11 +76,11 @@
 <dl>
   <dd>
 
-      <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.13.0.tar.gz?use_mirror=">abcl-0.13.0.tar.gz</a>
-      (source, 656652 bytes)
+      <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.14.1.tar.gz?use_mirror=">abcl-src-0.14.1.tar.gz</a>
+      (source, 632584 bytes)
       <br /><br />
-      <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.13.0.zip?use_mirror=">abcl-0.13.0.zip</a>
-      (source, 1130754 bytes)
+      <a href="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/armedbear-j/abcl-src-0.14.1.zip?use_mirror=">abcl-src-0.14.1.zip</a>
+      (source, 1098276 bytes)
   </dd>
 </dl>
 <p>
@@ -108,14 +108,13 @@
         quality of ABCL being good enough for their needs though. See
         the testimonials page.
         <br /><br />
-        ABCL 0.13.0 fails 44 out of 21702 tests in the ANSI test suite
-        in interpreted mode. In compiled mode ABCL 0.13.0 also fails 44 tests,
-        coming from ca 48 in the last release.
+        ABCL 0.14.1 fails 43 out of 21702 tests in the ANSI test suite
+        in interpreted mode. In compiled mode ABCL 0.14.1 also fails 43 tests,
+        coming from ca 44 in the last release.
         Most notable recent fixes relate to issues found through running
         the Maxima test suite. 0.13.0 is now able to run the test suite
-        without crashing. Before, some testcases could not be completed,
-        causing Java side errors. This is the issue resolved. The Maxima
-        tests don't run without errors, still.
+        without only ca 75 failing tests, coming from ca 1400 failures
+        october 2008 (6 months ago).
         <br /><br />
         ABCL's CLOS is slow and does not handle on-the-fly
         redefinition of classes correctly. There is no support for the long
@@ -123,8 +122,10 @@
         features are also missing. Enough CLOS is there to run ASDF and
         CL-PPCRE, if you're in no hurry. There's no MOP worth mentioning.
         <br /><br />
-        Since this is an early release, there might be build problems as
-        well as runtime bugs.
+        Due to the age of the source code (when compared to several other
+        implementations) you're more likely to find bugs in ABCL.  However,
+        we're committed to fixing any bugs you find.  Patches (bugfixes as
+        well as features) are most welcome.
         <br /><br />
         Please report problems to the <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/armedbear-j-devel">j development mailing list</a>
         (you must be subscribed to post).<br /><br />

Added: public_html/release-notes-0.14.shtml
==============================================================================
--- (empty file)
+++ public_html/release-notes-0.14.shtml	Tue Apr 14 05:24:17 2009
@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
+    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
+<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
+<head>
+  <title><!--#include virtual="project-name" --></title>
+  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css"/>
+  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"/>
+<style>
+dt { font-size: 110%; font-weight: bold }
+dd { }
+</style>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+ <div class="header">
+   <h1><!--#include virtual="project-name" --></h1>
+ </div>
+
+
+<h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.14</h2>
+<p>
+  <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">Major changes and new features</b>
+</p>
+<dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm">
+  <dt>Fixed special bindings un-binding in compiled code for
+   MULTIPLE-VALUE-BIND, LET, LET*, PROGV and function bodies</dt>
+  </dt>
+  <dd>Special bindings now will get unbound even in case of (non-Lisp)
+      exceptions.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>Reduced ANSI failures in interpreted mode</dt>
+  <dd>RESTART-CASE wrongly didn't use the macro expansion environment
+    to expand subforms.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>Lisp build system changed for parity with the Ant based build</dt>
+  <dd>The Lisp build was lagging behind on adjustments made to the Ant
+    based build.  abcl.jar generated from either should now be the same.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>Several fixes to numeric calculations</dt>
+  <dd>EXPT fixed for (EXPT NUMBER BIGNUM) and (EXPT BIGNUM RATIO).
+    Also, ACOS with a complex double-float argument.
+  </dd>
+</dl>
+
+
+<h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.13</h2>
+
+<p>
+  <b style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: large;">Major changes and new features</b>
+</p>
+<dl style="margin-left:3cm;width:20cm">
+  <dt>JSR-223: Java Scripting Plugin
+  </dt>
+  <dd>ABCL supports - when built with the <code>javax.script</code> package
+    in the CLASSPATH - the interfaces defined in <a href="http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/J2SE/Desktop/scripting/">JSR-223</a>.
+  </dd>
+  <dt>Support for inlining FLOAT results</dt>
+  <dd>When given the right DECLARE forms, ABCL is now able to inline
+    calculations and intermediate values relating to FLOAT types.  Before,
+    it used to box all FLOAT values and results, without inlining.</dd>
+  <dt>Compiler cleanups</dt>
+  <dd>Lots of code cleanup in the compiler, such as elimination of
+    nearly-equivalent code blocks.</dd>
+  <dt>TRACE-ing fixes</dt>
+  <dd>TRACE should no longer blow up when tracing FORMAT or inside
+    the compiler.</dd>
+  <dt>Support for "partial" wildcards in CL:DIRECTORY</dt>
+  <dd>Patterns such as #p"cl-*.lisp" are now supported.</dd>
+</dl>
+
+<h2 style="text-align:center">Release notes for ABCL 0.12 and older</h2>
+
+<p>These release notes have not been created before. If someone takes
+  the effort to create them, they will be added for 0.11 and 0.12.</p>
+
+ <hr />
+ <p>Back to <a href="http://common-lisp.net/">Common-lisp.net</a>.</p>
+
+ <div class="check">
+   <a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer">Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict</a>
+ </div>
+<div style="float:right;font-size:10px;font-family:monospace">$Id: index.shtml 11358 2008-10-18 22:10:11Z ehuelsmann $</div>
+</body>
+</html>


