Release Notes for ABCL 1.8.0

Features

[r15390-r15406][r15408-r15413][r15422-r15425][r15434-r15458][r15460-15463] The implementation of the JAR-PATHNAME and URL-PATHNAME subtypes of PATHNAME has been revised to fully support recursive addressing of zip within both local and remote zip archives.

Incompatibilities

[r15414] Change algorithm for determining pathname type from parsing namestrings to be more like SBCL and CCL

              | Expression | NAME   | TYPE |
              |------------+--------+------|
              | #p"..."    | ".."   | ""   |
              | #p".foo"   | ".foo" | NIL  |

Enhancements

[r15378][r15421] Support openjdk15
[r15360-r15365] (Alessio) Serialization of top-level, named functions.
[r15353] JAVA:JCLASS now works on all arrays of primitive type.
[r15356] ABCL-INTROSPECT adds EXT:READ-CLASS to conveniently read java class bytes from the source referenced by a PATHNAME.
[r15366] The compiler now properly emits make-array for top-level specialized vector forms.
[r15367] Loading ABCL-INTROSPECT now adds the function EXT:STREAM-UNIX-FD which returns the integer of the underlying file descriptor from a socket stream reference.
[r15368] Less cryptic warnings for ignored socket write timeout.
[r15381] JNEW-ARRAY-FROM-ARRAY now capable of constructing all possible arrays of primitive type.

Fixes

[r15359] Fix running openjdk11 compilation on openjdk8.
[r15358] Fix SYS:RUN-PROGRAM issues with openjdk11.
[r15357] Re-work strategy for the denotation of the hosting runtime platform *in CL:FEATURES* to include a "JAVA-<n>" where "<n%gt;" is an integer denoting the major version of the platform according to JEP-223.
[r15351][r15352] For CL:MAKE-ARRAY, ensure :NIO-BUFFER argument works in all cases, fix :NIO-DIRECT for (unsigned-byte 16) specialized arrays.
[r15369][r15376] Fix wildcard matching to work on pathnames consisting of only #\* characters.
[r15377] (Daniel Kochmański) Fix loop destructuring problems.
[r15379] Fix VECTOR-PUSH-EXTEND for (UNSIGNED-BYTE 8).
[r15427] Define CALL-NEXT-METHOD and NEXT-METHOD-P as local functions.
[r15386] Make the pre-compiler be more careful in optimizing lambdas.
[r15388] Ensure that SYS:CHECK-REDEFINITION does not signal error conditions.
[r15387] Fix FILE-POSITION by resetting file charset decoder before conversion.

[r15383] Fix capacity allocation for arrays specialized on

              (or (unsigned-byte 16)
                  (unsigned-byte 32))

created via an CL:MAKE-ARRAY :NIO-BUFFER argument.

Contrib

[r15420] Use jna-5.6.0.
[r15384] quicklisp-abcl attempts to remove all Quicklisp fasls on failure to load.
ASDF-JAR loading compiled fasls stored in JAR archives now works again.

Build

[r15426] Ensure that we construct the manual with a proper version.
[r15407] Building and running a local ABCL hopefully does more of what you mean.

Tests

[r15416] The default reporting via abcl/test/lisp/parse-ansi-tests is for compiled tests.
[r15385] Travis CI now uses versions of STATIC-VECTORS, CL+SSL, and CFFI from Quicklisp. Overhaul ABCL-PROVE system definition explicitly enumerating tests for more deterministic behavior.
[r15382] Test usage of :NIO-BUFFER keyword in CL:MAKE-ARRAY.
[r15380] Tests for creating primitive java arrays.