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Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.29.54.rc1 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release candidate includes: the deprecation of SB-THREAD:JOIN-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD and SB-THREAD:INTERRUPT-THREAD-ERROR-THREAD in favour of SB-THREAD:THREAD-ERROR-THREAD, the new SB-QUEUE contrib module, the addition of SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD and SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION, various optimizations, slightly more stable complex float division, a reworking of the output of DESCRIBE, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the inaugural meeting of the Twin Cities Lisp Group meeting will be held on June 9, 2009. It is a group for Lisp users in and near Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.28 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: cross-compilation bug fixes, more reliable backtraces, debugger improvements, faster local calls on x86-32 and x86-64, bug fixes, and other changes.

Clozure CL 1.3 has been released. It is an open source Common Lisp implementation supporting a number of platforms.

This release includes: x86-32 support, support for more operating systems, new lock-free hash tables, faster bignum multiplication on 64-bit systems, checking of format control strings for errors, compiler warnings about duplicate definitions within a compilation unit, bug fixes, and other changes.

Embeddable Common Lisp 9.4.0 has been released. It is a portable, open-source Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: changes to the way that streams are implemented, improved Unicode support, performance improvements, and other changes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.27 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: support for x86-64 OpenBSD and x86-64 Solaris, better handling of stack exhaustion, and bug fixes.

newLISP v10.0.3 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: 'swap' support for exchanging any two places, support for PPC AIX, bug fixes, and other changes.

newLISP v.10.0.2 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: read-utf8 for reading UTF-8 characters from file handles, directory? function that is insensitive to trailing slashes on Win32, bug fixes, and other changes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.26 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: interrupt-related changes and improvements, the removal of GC-OFF and GC-ON, new --disable-ldb and --lose-on-corruption runtime options, detection of binding stack exhaustion, detection of alien stack exhaustion on x86 and x86-64, speed optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

The February to March 4, 2009 edition of the Common Lisp Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Common Lisp community.

It has been announced that the next Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting will be held on March 4, 2009. Erik Charlebois will be discussing Haskell for Lisp programmers.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on February 26, 2009. Marc-Antoine Desroches will present about VLAM Compyle.

The January 22 to February 4, 2009 edition of the Common Lisp Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Common Lisp community.

Ready Lisp 20090125 has been released. It is combines together SBCL and several popular Common Lisp packages, for Mac OS OX.

The January 15 to 21, 2009 edition of the Common Lisp Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent discussion and developments within the Common Lisp community.

The January 8 to 14, 2009 edition of the Common Lisp Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Common Lisp community.

It has been announced that the next Boston Lisp Meeting will be held on January 26, 2009.

The December 25, 2008 to January 7, 2009 edition of the Common Lisp Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments and discussion within the Common Lisp community.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Vancouver Lisp Users Group will be held on January 21, 2009.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.24 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: ARRAY-STORAGE-VECTOR for accessing the underlying data vector of a multidimensional SIMPLE-ARRAY, support for the non-standard :RESOLVE-SYMLINKS keyword argument for DIRECTORY, speed optimizations, bug fixes, and other changes.

The December 10 to 17, 2008 edition of the Common Lisp Weekly News is now available. It summarises recent developments, software releases and discussion within the Common Lisp community.

Embeddable Common Lisp 8.12.0 has been released. It is a portable, open-source Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: updates to the printing of compiler messages, support for handlers for different compiler conditions, documentation updates, new configuration flags, bug fixes, and other changes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.23 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: performance improvements, the disassembly of the associated fast function when disassembling method functions, bug fixes, and other changes.

Qi II has been released. It has also been announced that 'Functional Programming in Qi (second edition)' has also been published. Qi is a Common Lisp-based programming language offering pattern matching, l calculus consistency, optional static type checking, and other features.

This release of Qi includes: a complete reimplementation of Qi, a new license, support for type secure lazy evaluation on demand, improved Common Lisp integration, improved Prolog interoperability, support for rule closures, improved dependent type handling, and other changes.

The new edition of 'Functional Programming in Qi (second edition)' includes: a new chapter on abstract programming, a new chapter on compiling sequent calculus, a revised final section explaining rule closures, Qi YACC and Qi Prolog documentation, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Vancouver Lisp Users Group meeting will be held on November 27, 2008.