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IBM Workstation APL2 Version 2 Service Level 14 has been released.

This release includes: an increase to the maximum length of simple workspace names, enlist support in selective specification expressions, and other changes.

IBM Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2.0 Service Level 13 has been released.

This release includes: the new ROUNDC external function for high-performance commercial rounding, a function line length limit increase to 32767, updates to the Windows version, improved performance accessing linefeed-delimited files, and other changes.

It has been announced that the ACM Special Interest Group on the APL and J Languages is to be merged with the ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages.

It has been announced that an APL meeting will be held in Hannover, Germany on June 12 and 13, 2008.

Dyalog 12.0.1 has been released. Dyalog is an APL implementation supporting Windows, Linux and UNIX.

This release includes: Unicode support, built-in charting support, journaling support for the built-in array file system, plus other changes.

It has been announced that the next New York City J User's Group meeting will be held on December 11, 2007.

IBM Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2.0 Service Level 11 has been released.

This release includes: the lifting of the limit on the number of names to the left of the assignment arrow when using vector specification, a high-performance REPLACEX external function for replacing instances of a string or strings in a character vector, Windows-related improvements, and other changes.

APLX for Windows 3.2 and APLX for Macintosh 3.5.2 have been released. "APLX is an advanced, second generation implementation of the APL language, closely based on IBM's APL2, but with a number of important enhancements.

APLX for Windows 3.2 includes support for Microsoft Windows Vista.

MicroAPL APLX for Macintosh v3.5 has been released. APLX is a cross-platform implementation of APL based on IBM's APL2, with additional enhancements.

This release includes native support for Intel-based Macs.

IBM Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2 Service Level 9 has been released.

This release includes: better compatibility with mainframe APL2; the implementation of the GRDATA command on AIX, Linux, and Solaris; improved Unicode support; plus other changes and fixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the New York Dyalog APL User Group will be held on November 13, 2006. Morten Kromberg and Gitte Christensen of Dyalog Ltd. will be speaking.

IBM Workstation APL2 for Multiplatforms Version 2.0 Service Level 8 has been released.

This service level allows for comments after system commands, includes the APL2 Library Manager tool on Windows, supports Windows XP themes for APL2 GUI windows, plus other changes and fixes.

IBM Workstation APL2 Version 2 Service Level 7 has been released.

This release includes: routines to provide access to the APL2 system commands )COPY, )PCOPY, and )LIB; support for controlling the heapsize of the JVM started by the APL2 Java interfaces; Windows-specific enhancements; plus other changes.