From sdr at jhb.ucs.co.za  Thu Sep  1 12:54:26 2005
From: sdr at jhb.ucs.co.za (Sean Ross)
Date: 01 Sep 2005 14:54:26 +0200
Subject: [cl-store-announce] [Announce] CL-STORE 0.6
Message-ID: <87acix2bjx.fsf@sdr.ucs.co.za>

Hi All, 

 CL-STORE 0.6 has been uploaded to cl.net and can be asdf-installed
 or downloaded from <http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-store/files/cl-store_0.6.tgz>.


Noteworthy Changes
-------------------

* Support has been added for the new CLISP releases which support the MOP.
* Bug fix on storing (find-class 'hash-table)
* Symbols are now checked for eq-uality when storing (see test gensym.2).
* restore-error and store-error now have error as a superclass
* String serialisation tries to keep the upgraded-array-element-type.
* Extremely long proper and dotted lists can now be restored, circular lists
   are still fairly restricted with regards to size (Reported by Alain Picard).
* Fixed type specifications for the backend class (Reported by Kilian Sprotte).
* *stored-values* and *restored-values* are no longer bound when circularity
  checking is inhibited.
* When circularity checking is inhibited an error will be signalled when 
  trying to restore circular objects.
* Stored objects now have a new magic number but v0.5 files will/should still
  be restorable.


This release has been tested on 
 - SBCL 0.9.3.51
 - GNU CLISP 2.34
 - CMU Common Lisp 19a-pre2
 - LispWorks Professional 4.4.5
 - Allegro CL Trial Edition 7.0
 
Regards,
  Sean.

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