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It has been announced that the next meeting of the Montreal Scheme/Lisp User Group will be held on May 24, 2007. Marc Feeley will be discussing the Snow framework, used for developing and distributing portable Scheme packages.

newLISP 9.1.6 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes minor fixes and changes.

newLISP 9.1.5 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: changes to the local domain UNIX sockets syntax, documentation improvements, plus other changes and fixes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.5 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: documentation updates, optimizations, more passing tests on x86-64/Darwin, the use of Mach exception handlers for dealing with illegal instructions and memory protection violations on x86 and x86-64 Mac OS X, plus other changes and bug fixes.

newLISP 9.1.4 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: support for local domain UNIX sockets, 'net-ping' improvements, enhancements to the MySQL module, 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 April 19, 2007. Dominique Boucher will be discussing Erlang.

The 4th European Lisp Workshop has put out a call for papers. "This workshop will address the near-future role of Lisp-based languages in research, industry and education."

Submissions are due by May 13, 2007. The workshop will be held on July 30, 2007, in Berlin, Germany.

It has been announced that the next New York City Lisp Users Group meeting will be held on March 13, 2007.

newLISP 9.1 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: full 64-bit support, enhancements to the built-in HTTP server mode, a number of new functions, enhancements to existing functions, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the New York City Lisp Users Group will be held on February 13, 2007. Pinku Surana will be presenting his dissertation "Meta-Compilation of Language Abstractions".

newLISP 9.0.21 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes a fix for a bug in 'match', and a new 'curry' function.

newLISP 9.0.20 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes a reworking of the logging options. The final 9.1 release is expected on February 15, 2007.

newLISP 9.0.19 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This release includes: enhancements to 'find', 'explode' and 'array', plus other changes and bug fixes.

Steel Bank Common Lisp 1.0.2 has been released. SBCL is a portable, open source ANSI Common Lisp implementation.

This release includes: experimental support for Mach exception handling on Intel Mac OS X, debugger improvements, support for executable cores on NetBSD, plus other changes and bug fixes.

It has been announced that CDR 3: "Revisiting CONCATENATE-SEQUENCE", by Christophe Rhodes, has been finalized.

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."

It has been announced that CDR 2: "A generic hash table interface specification for Common Lisp", by Ingvar Mattsson, has been finalized.

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."

newLISP 9.0.16 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

This development release includes: support for registering callbacks with imported libraries, improved 64-bit support, expanded QA routines, more trigonometric functions, other changes, and bug fixes.

LispWorks Personal Edition 5.0.1 has been released. "LispWorks is an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, FreeBSD and UNIX."

This release includes: support for Intel-based Mac OS X, Universal Binary support, support for FreeBSD, performance improvements, threading improvements, support for Windows XP themes, 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 January 17, 2007. Yariv Sadan will be discussing Erlang.

newLISP 9.0.15 has been released. newLISP is a portable, general purpose, Lisp-like scripting language.

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