Release of LispWorks 8.0
Cambridge, England, 14 December 2021
LispWorks Ltd has released LispWorks 8.0 on Windows®, Macintosh®, x86/x86_64 Linux®, ARM Linux®, ARM64 Linux®, FreeBSD®, x86/x64 Solaris™, Android™ and iOS platforms.
LispWorks 8.0 brings these new features:
- Native support for Apple silicon Macs and creation of universal binaries.
- Package-local nicknames.
- Support for Dark Mode on macOS.
- Substanially improved documentation, including hyperlinking between manuals.
- External-format support for shell command execution.
- Locale-based encoding of operating system interfaces and the terminal I/O.
- Optimized complex number arithmetic and array formats.
- The GB18030 character encoding is supported.
- Identifying object allocation in the profiler tree.
- Support for pinning objects while in foreign code.
- Abstract API for setting SSL parameters.
- Improved support for prepared SQL statements.
- Support for making non-virtual and static method calls in the Java interface.
- Access to all editor commands from the IDE menus.
- Lax whitespace searching.
- Directory-based buffer naming.
- Many bug fixes and extensions to existing functionality.
Not all features are supported for every LispWorks product and platform. Please see the feature table for details.
LispWorks Professional and Enterprise Editions still offer excellent value to commercial users and academic institutions with no runtime license fees. An annual maintenance contract is available.
LispWorks Hobbyist and HobbyistDV Editions offer an affordable fully functional Common Lisp IDE for non-commercial and non-academic use by individuals.
LispWorks for Android Runtime allows you to deliver (non-GUI) Lisp libraries which you can incorporate into Android apps ("mobile Lisp libraries"). It is available as an add-on to customers with LispWorks 8.0, which you use to develop your code before creating the mobile Lisp library. We do not charge runtime license fees for mobile Lisp libraries generated by LispWorks for Android Runtime.
LispWorks for iOS Runtime allows you to deliver (non-GUI) Lisp libraries which you can incorporate into iOS apps. It is available as an add-on to customers with LispWorks 8.0, which you use to develop your code before creating the mobile Lisp library. We do not charge runtime license fees for mobile Lisp libraries generated by LispWorks for iOS Runtime.
More details of the improvements in this release can be found in the Release Notes.
Prices
Pricing information for LispWorks 8.0 is here.
Owners of LispWorks maintenance contracts valid at 14 December 2021 are entitled to free upgrades to LispWorks 8.0. We will contact you by email with your upgrade information. If you are entitled to the upgrade and do not receive our email within a day, please tell us at .
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