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newLISP 9.0.14 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: improved 64-bit support, updates to the manual, and other changes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.1 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: support for FreeBSD/x86-64, support for subclassing SEQUENCE, performance improvements, improvements to the Windows port, plus other changes and bug fixes.

newLISP 9.0.13 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes bug fixes.

newLISP 9.0.12 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: improved 64-bit support, installer improvements, plus other changes and bug fixes.

newLISP 9.0.11 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes a number of internal changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Vancouver Lisp Users Group will be held on December 21, 2007. Howard Yeh will be discussing his Wispy Lisp Web application framework.

newLISP 9.0.9 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes bug fixes.

newLISP 9.0.8 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: better random number generation in 'rand' and 'random', working CGI support in HTTP server mode on Windows and UNIX, and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on December 13, 2006. Guillaume Cartier will be discussing and demonstrating JazzScheme.

CMU Common Lisp 19d has been released. CMUCL is a free, multiplatform ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: support for a new float type EXT:DOUBLE-DOUBLT-FLOAT, a port of the generational garbage collector to Darwin/PPC, improved ANSI standard compliance, plus other changes and bug fixes.

newLISP 9.0.7 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes bug fixes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: experimental threading support on x86 FreeBSD, support for setting the size of the dynamic space reserved on startup, the type-checking of writes to CLOS instance slots in code compiled with (SAFETY 3), floating-point exception handling on FreeBSD, support for callbacks on Linux/PPC, speed optimizations, working hyperbolic functions on Windows, plus other changes and bug fixes.

The launch of the Lispin project website has been announced. "The project's goal is to provide Lisp and Scheme languages with an indented syntax similar to SRFI 49 and other poposals."

newLISP 9.0.4 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new hyperbolic functions, a new 'round' function, plus other changes and fixes.

newLISP 9.0.3 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release fixes the dolist $idx.

newLISP 9.0.2 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: support for 'explode' to work on lists, working HTTP mode on Win32, plus other bug fixes and changes.

newLISP 9.0.1 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: new scalar matrix operations, new 'utf8len' and 'doargs' functions, plus other changes and bug fixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on November 22, 2006. Slava Pestov will be discussing Factor.

GNU Common Lisp 2.7.0 has been released. It is an open source Common Lisp implementation, including an interpreter and a compiler that emits native code.

This release includes: an overhaul of the error system, improved ANSI standard compliance, plus other changes.

It has been announced that CDR 3: "Revisiting CONCATENATE-SEQUENCE" has been submitted by Christophe Rhodes. The document will be finalized on December 13, 2006, unless withdrawn by the author beforehand.

"The Common Lisp Document Repository is a repository of documents that are of interest to the Common Lisp community. The most important property of a CDR document is that it will never change: if you refer to it, you can be sure that your reference will always refer to exactly the same document."