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Lisp Flavoured Erlang 0.5.1 has been released. It is a Lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.

This release includes support for running on R13B03.

The 3rd European Lisp Symposium has put out a call for papers. "The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp dialects."

The submission deadline is January 29, 2010. The symposium will be held on May 6 and 7, 2010, in Lisbon, Portugal.

newLISP v.10.1.8 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes mutable objects in Functional Object Oriented Programming (FOOP).

newLISP v.10.1.7 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: the removal of the experimental 'estack' function, bug fixes, and other changes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.33 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: a port to x86-64 NetBSD, O_LARGEFILE support on x86-64 Linux, SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-DIRECTLY and SB-INTROSPECT:WHO-SPECIALIZES-GENERALLY, improved Unicode support, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on November 17, 2009. Vladimir Sedach will be discussing the development of high-performance network servers using Lisp.

ChocoSmallTalk 0.1 has been released. It is a Smalltalk implementation written in Common Lisp.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.32 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: performance improvements, improved error signalling, and bug fixes.

Lush 2.0 beta1 has been released. It is a Lisp dialect with object-oriented programming and array-oriented programming extensions.

This release includes: case sensitivity, the dropping of outdated packages, the renaming of many functions, built-in math functions that work on arrays, support for namespaces, a datatype library, a gnuplot interface, and other changes.

Lisp Flavoured Erlang v0.5 has been released. It is a Lisp syntax front-end to the Erlang compiler.

This release includes: the addition of macro list*, a new shell command to set variables in the shell, cleaned-up compiler options, the addition of Unicode types to binaries, shell and compiler error reporting changes, improved pretty-printing, I/O function updates, and internal improvements.

It has been announced that the next Boston Lisp Meeting will be held on October 29, 2009. Alex Plotnick will discuss CLWEB, and Daniel Herring will discuss LibCL.

newLISP v.10.1.6 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: the new macro.lsp module implementing a rewrite macro facility, and bug and memory leak fixes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.31 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: stack allocation enhancements, improved Unicode support, optimizations, various improvements, bug fixes, and other changes.

GNU CLISP 2.48 has been released. It is a portable, open-source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: experimental support for multiple threads of execution, module updates, new functions, bug fixes, improved ANSI compliance, and other changes.

SBCL 1.0.30 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release 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, SB-THREAD:SYMBOL-VALUE-IN-THREAD for providing access to symbol values in other threads, SB-INTROSPECT:ALLOCATION-INFORMATION for obtaining information about object allocation, numerous optimizations, more stable complex float division, a reworking of DESCRIBE output, bug fixes, and other changes.

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.