From sdr at jhb.ucs.co.za  Tue Aug 17 12:35:27 2004
From: sdr at jhb.ucs.co.za (Sean Ross)
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 12:35:27 -0000
Subject: [cl-store-announce] CL-STORE 0.2 Released.
Message-ID: <lsu0v2vt01.fsf@sdr.stores.mosbros.co.uk>


CL-STORE 0.2 has been released.


It is available for download via common-lisp.net 
http://www.common-lisp.net/project/cl-store/files/cl-store_0.2.tgz
or asdf-install.


Important Changes.

* New backend structure implemented (Suggested by Robert Sedgewick).
* New xml-backend see README for details.
* Original storing mechanism moved to default-backend.
* Magic Number changed for default backend.
* New method for resolving circularities in objects.
* Buffering mechanism removed. Resolves issues with read-sequence on blocking streams.
* Unicode Strings should work although symbols with unicode characters will still break.


This release has been confirmed to work on clisp 2.33.2, Lispworks Personal 4.3,
CMUCL and SBCL. OpenMCL has not been tested yet.


Regards,
  Sean.

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