From sdr at jhb.ucs.co.za  Wed Nov 24 13:56:58 2004
From: sdr at jhb.ucs.co.za (Sean Ross)
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 13:56:58 -0000
Subject: [Cl-store-devel] Release of cl-store 0.4
Message-ID: <87u0rfwdme.fsf@sdr.ucs.co.za>


Cl-STORE 0.4 has just been uploaded to common-lisp.net .


Noteworthy Changes
-------------------
- New Magic Number (breaks backwards compatibility).
- New variables for tweaking storing and restoring. *store-hash-size*,
  *restore-hash-size* and *check-for-circs*. See README for more 
  details.
- Support for storing structure definitions in SBCL.
- Smarter storing for symbols with no home package.
- Storing of functions and generic functions, Done by looking up the name.
- Full Unicode Support.
- Documentation (or something that is vaguely similar) 
- Support for Allegro Common Lisp.
- Compatibility change. Function store-32-byte renamed to store-32-bit and
  read-32-byte renamed to read-32-bit.
- Changed storing of lispworks conditions to ignore the printer slot.


Enjoy,
  Sean.

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