abcl-1.4.0 released

[Mark Evenson]

With a decided chill noticeable in the Northern Hemisphere, the Bear has
finally sloughed off a long-needed release of ABCL.

With abcl-1.4.0, CFFI now works reliably allowing cross-platform linkage
to native libraries to be initiated dynamically at runtime.  Examples of
using CL-CUDA to follow as their authors have time to publish.

Considerable work and testing led by Elias Pipping with contributions
Olof-Joachim Frahm has led to a reasonable basis for UIOP/RUN-PROGRAM
compatibility.

We have taken the time to learn enough of Maven to publish binary
artifacts for both abcl.jar and abcl-contrib.jar that allow developers
everywhere to more easily incorporate the Bear into their local Java
build tool chains.

And we have tentatively surrendered to the current fashion by
establishing GIT bridges to the ABCL source at and to more easily
facilitate

Version 1.4.0
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http://abcl.org/svn/tags/1.4.0/
http://abcl.org/trac/changeset/14892

08-OCT-2016

Enhancements
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* Consolidated RUN-PROGRAM fixes (ferada, pipping)

* Upstream consolidated patchset (ferada)

** [r14857] Support `FILE-POSITION` on string streams.
** [r14859] Add multiple disassembler selector.
** [r14860] Add EXTERNAL-ONLY option to APROPOS.
** [r14861] Fix nested classes from JARs not visible with JSS.

* [r14840-2] (Scott L. Burson) Introduced "time of time" semantics for
  {encode,decode}-universal time.

* EXTENSIONS:MAKE-TEMP-FILE now takes keyword arguments to specify
  values of the prefix and suffix strings to the underlying JVM
  implementation of java.io.File.createTempFile().

* [r14849] EXT:OS-{UNIX,WINDOWS}-P now provide a pre-ASDF runtime check
on hosting platform

Fixes
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* [r14863] RandomCharacterFile et. al.

* [r14839] (JSS) Ensure the interpolation of Java symbol names as
strings (alan ruttenberg)

* [r14889] Fix ANSI-TEST SXHASH.8 (dmiles)

Updates
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* asdf-3.1.7.26

* jna-4.2.2

Removed
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* [r14885] ASDF-INSTALL was removed


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