Release Notes for ABCL 1.6.0

Compatiblity

ABCL 1.6.0 supports building and running on openjdk6, openjdk7, openjdk8, and openjdk11.

[r15085] Add a restart for generics defined over functions or macros when arguments don't match (Alan).
[r15086] jss: Disambiguate java class lookup in dynamic scope (Alan).
[r15087] jss: Optimizations for jss field accessors (Alan).
[r15089] [r15090] jss: JSS:TO-HASHSET converts java.util.List references to java.util.Hashset (Alan).
[r15091] jss: Improve JSS:J2LIST, add JSS:JMAP (Olof).
[r15092] Make JVM class names more intelligible (Olof).
[r15093] abcl-asdf: Support multiple Maven repositories (Olof).
[r15101] [r15102] [r15103] abcl-asdf: add test cases for multiple repositories (Olof).
[r15095] Define undefined conditions and handler functions following error-fun='error pattern (Alan).
[r15105] jss: make use of warning muffling (Olof).
[r15133] [r15134] Support building and running in openjdk11.
[r15142] Signal better error for out-of-bounds CL:REPLACE (Olof).
[r15148] docker: use the now standardized openjdk8 container, install ant and maven dependencies.

[r15096] Fix and check array types for JSS:JMAP/J2LIST (Olof).
[r15097] abcl-asdf: compatiblity with maven-3.5.0.
[r15099] Export the JVM:*RESIGNAL-COMPILER-WARNINGS* interface.
[r15100] Fix ASDF usage of MVN module (Olof).
[r15107] Fix translate-directory-components-aux: throw takes 2 arguments (metawilm).
[r15114] Intern SYSTEM:AVAILABLE-ENCODINGS symbols (Robert Dodier).
[r15115] abcl-asdf: fix ABCL-ASDF:MVN-MODULE collect request (Alan).
[r15116] Fix CL:PRINT-OBJECT of null pointer (Alan).
[r15117] The compiled version of JSS:INVOKE-RESTARGS was evaluating the first argument twice (Alan).
[r15118] abcl-asdf: stop complaining about not loading a file named the module name (Alan).
[r15120] Don't evaluate format control string in ReaderError (Javier Olaechea).
[r15124] Fix monetary floating-point formatted output (Scott Burson).
[r15125] Stackframe head edge case fix (Alan).
[r15137] Fix ANSI-TESTS GENSYM.ERROR.10 and GENSYM.ERROR.11 (Douglas Miles).
[r15138] Fix ANSI-TEST MAKE-CONCATENATED-STREAM.30 failure (Douglas Miles).
[r15139] Fix ANSI-TESTS FILE-POSITION.10 (Douglas Miles).
[r15141] compiler: fix stack inconsistency errors (somewhat-functional-programmer).
[r15143] Check for element type before filling vectors (Olof).
[r15144] Fix high start index for CL:SUBSEQ (Olof).
[r15146] JSS read sharp expression bugfixes (Alan).
[r15149] jss: explicitly scope JSS:TO-HASHSET.

These changes may be viewed directly at CHANGES.