ABCL 1.8.0
Alessio Stalla
alessiostalla at gmail.com
Fri Oct 30 13:18:31 UTC 2020
Congrats Mark and other developers for maintaining the Bear alive and
kicking!
On Fri, 30 Oct 2020 at 12:34, Mark Evenson <evenson at panix.com> wrote:
> ABCL 1.8.0
>
> Under the gathering storms of the Fall 2020, we are pleased to
> release ABCL 1.8.0 as the Ninth major revision of the
> implementation.
>
> This Ninth Edition of the implementation now supports building and
> running on the recently released openjdk15 platform. This release
> is intended as the last major release to support the openjdk6,
> openjdk7, and openjdk8 platforms, for with abcl-2.0.0 we intend to
> move the minimum platform to openjdk11 or better in order to
> efficiently [implement atomic memory compare and swap
> operations][github/issues/92].
>
> With this release, the implementation of the EXT:JAR-PATHNAME and
> EXT:URL-PATHNAME subtypes of cl:PATHNAME has been fixed to the
> point that arbitrary references to ZIP archives within archives
> now work for read-only stream operations (CL:PROBE-FILE,
> CL:TRUENAME, CL:OPEN, CL:LOAD, CL:FILE-WRITE-DATE, CL:DIRECTORY,
> and CL:MERGE-PATHNAMES). The previous versions of the
> implementation relied on the ability for java.net.URL to open
> streams of an archive within an archive, behavior that was
> silently dropped after Java 5, and consequently hasn't worked on
> common platforms supported by the Bear in a long time. The
> overhaul of the implementation restores the feasibility of
> accessing fasls from within jar files. Interested parties may
> examine the ASDF-JAR contrib for a recipe for packaging and
> accessing such artifacts. Please consult the ["Beyond ANSI:
> Pathnames" Section 4.2 of the User Manual][manual] for further
> details for how namestrings and components of PATHNAME objects
> have been revised.
>
> A more comprehensive list of [CHANGES][] is available with the source.
>
>
> [1.8.0]: https://abcl.org/releases/1.8.0/
> [asdf-jar]:
> https://abcl.org/svn/trunk/abcl/contrib/asdf-jar/README.markdown
> [github/issues/92]: https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/issues/92
> [manual]: https://abcl.org/releases/1.8.0/abcl-1.8.0.pdf
> [CHANGES]: https://abcl.org/svn/tags/1.8.0/CHANGES
>
> --
> "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is
> nothing
> to compare to it now."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://mailman.common-lisp.net/pipermail/armedbear-devel/attachments/20201030/a9757770/attachment.htm>
More information about the armedbear-devel
mailing list