Release of LispWorks 8.1
Cambridge, England, 3 March 2025
LispWorks Ltd has released LispWorks 8.1 on Windows®, Macintosh®, x86/x86_64 Linux®, ARM Linux®, ARM64 Linux®, FreeBSD®, x86/x64 Solaris™, Android™ and iOS platforms.
LispWorks 8.1 brings these new features:
- Support for GTK+ 3 and Wayland.
- Scaling graphics for high resolution monitors on Microsoft Windows.
- In-place editing in tree and list panels.
- Unicode character case rules in Common Lisp functions.
- Improved performance of bignum division on arm64 platforms.
- Smooth scrolling in the editor.
- Displaying line numbers in the editor.
- 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 8.1, 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 8.1, 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 8.1 is here.
Owners of LispWorks maintenance contracts valid at 3 March 2025 are entitled to free upgrades to LispWorks 8.1. 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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