• Suppress redefinition warnings when cbind is loaded after jlinker.
• Add new keyword argument end-function to jlinker-init.
• Revise behavior of jlinker-listen when connection fails.
• Suppress some status messages when verbose is nil.
• In native mode, boolean values were transmitted incorrectly.
• In native mode, Lisp pointers were passed incorrectly from Java.
• jlinker-init failed to return in some cases when the connection failed
• jlinker-init was interpreting the classpath argument incorrectly when it was passed as a list of strings
• jlinker-init was ignoring the :options marker in the java-args argument
• Avoid some storage allocation errors in native mode.

This patch adds many small improvements and bug fixes:

• Add a kill argument to client-exit.
• Modify client-exit to kill process on remote host.
• Revise symbol handling in remote references.
• One-way datagram calls are now handled correctly.
• rpc-close of socket ports is more reliable.
• Remote symbol references are simplified.
• def-remote-function generates more correct code.

• Several extensions to make-client-interface and make-server-interface refined null element and empty element behavior features that allow several WSDL definitions to be combined into one Lisp image.
• Handle <include> and <import> Schema components.
• Attributes can be defined in element and type definitions.

• Updates Allegro Prolog to release 1.0.1.
• Fixed some dynamic-extent problems when executing the prolog macro from interpreted Lisp code.
• Fixed incorrect operation of not/1 when not opencoded.
• Removed certain hazards when leashing builtin functors, and when leashing a functor multiple times.
• The prolog macro reliably returns nil if it completes without nonlocal exit.

There has been a long standing problem with running applications as a service on Windows: manually stopping the service with the tray icon or close button on the window must be done twice. This patch fixes this problem. There is one incompatible change in the `ntservice' module, however: the ntservice:execute-service function takes another required argument.

The function ntservice:execute-service has a new keyword argument, shutdown, which can be used to control the behavior of the service during a shutdown of the operating system.

Please read the ntservice documentation for more information on how to make an application run as a service on Windows.

• An application program can enable Lisp breaks in calls from Java see the documentation to jlinker-slot :lisp-call-error-p.
• jlinker-init allows system-allocated port when lisp advertises.
• def-java-class may specify multiple Java classes
• def-java-* macros no longer cause spurious redefinition warnings.
• Deprecated operators can emit compiler warnings.

Fixes the following problems:

• Processes that waited on gates or timers sometimes came out of the wait too early.
• A lisp image dumped after multiprocessing had started could not always be restarted.
• (Windows only) Could not avoid sharing open file handles with a process spawned by run-shell-command.

New user-visible feature (ms windows only):

run-shell-command has a new keyword argument :share-open-files. When true (the default value), behavior is the same as before the patch, i.e., all open file handles that could be shared will be shared.

When :share-open-files is specified as nil, then the :input, :output, and :error-output keyword arguments must be nil (the default). In this case no open file handles will be shared and the spawned process will open its own standard io handles if it needs them.

There is a new double-sided option for programmatically specifying whether a print job should print double-sided. This is mostly useful when bypassing the print job dialog where the user would typically select this option interactively.

There are four possible values:
• nil (or unspecified) -- use the default setting
• :no -- single-side
• :short-edge-binding -- double-sided for binding along the shorter side
• :long-edge-binding (or any non-nil value other than those above) -- double-sided for binding along the longer side

Here is an example that will print double-sided to the current default printer, without showing its print job dialog:

(with-output-to-printer
    (out :no-dialog-p t
         :units-per-inch 100
         :font (make-font-ex nil :arial 33)
         :double-sided t)     ;; same as :long-edge-binding
  (print "Front side of first sheet." out)
  (new-page out)
  (print "Back side of first sheet." out)
  (new-page out)
  (print "Front side of second sheet." out))

A number of IDE project related fixes.

In 7.0, any printing that a Run Project process did to standard output usually appeared in the IDE listener. This was due to a bug where the IDE erroneously set the global binding of *standard-output* and the other standard stream I/O variables. This bug has been fixed in IDE patch update/pdl001.001 (see LOG entry below).This patch causes any Run Project process to initially bind (in the correct way) the variables to the IDE listener that was currently selected when the project was run. This ensures that debugging output in the project code will print within the IDE where it is more visible and where the IDE menubar commands may be used on it.

This patch also fixes a break that could occur in atypical cases when the IDE asks which unsaved project modules to save. The break was due to a bogus call to the internal function in-project-p.

This patch also improves the behavior of the project manager when an error occurs while compiling and/or loading project files during an Open Project command. Formerly, the project manager did not list the new project's files until you aborted or otherwise returned from the error. With this patch, the project manager will list the files before compiling and loading, and even highlight each file just before it is loaded. This allows you to use the project manager to easily edit the file that broke if you go into the debugger on the error.

This patch upgrades the SOAP module to the ACL 8.0 level. There are documentation additions and changes (use the 8.0 documentation until the 7.0 documentation is updated).

Major Additions or Revisions:
• Added support for nillable attributes for SOAP elements. The nillable option, when non-nil, adds the "xsd:nillable='true'" attribute to the element (see Element Definition in soap.htm).
• Recognize all Schema components (some Schema features are still ignored, but will no lOnger signal errors).
• New generic function wsdl-generate-code allows application programmers to modify the code generated by make-client-interface and make-server-interface.

Other changes include:
• New arguments to soap-message-client and soap-message-server allow optimization of storage allocation for very large SOAP messages.
• The generic function define-soap-element now has a nillable keyword argument which marks elements as nillable.
• encode-wsdl-file has a new target-package keyword argument.
• New function soap-new-environment resets the SOAP environment.
• New function soap-make-fault creates an encoded fault instance.
• New stream argument to decode-wsdl-source allows input to come from a stream.
• New xml-syntax, class, and init keyword arguments to decode-wsdl-file, decode-wsdl-source, decode-wsdl-string, and decode-wsdl-at-uri.
  • xml-syntax allows specifying whether to insist on strict compliance with the standard.
  • class allows specifying a subclass wsdl-file-connector for the connector.
  • init allows specifying make-instance arguments when creating an instance of the subclass.

Allegro Prolog 0.98b is a minor bugfix release from 0.98 and 0.98a, but 0.98 was a significant feature and performance update. This update includes the following:

• Fix a bug in ground/1.
• Adds some missing exports.
• Adds functors atomic and slot=*.
• Adds some controls on leashing

• allows specifying the external format to be used when encrypting and decrypting,
• adds support for CBC encrypting, for PKCS#5 padding, and zero (or null) padding for plaintext with no nulls, and
• also adds new auxilliary functions hex-string-to-usb8-array and usb8-array-to-hex-string. See Support for Blowfish encryption in miscellaneous.htm.

Update Allegro Prolog to version 0.98. Significant speed enhancements, various bug fixes, and additional builtin functors. Includes initial support for AllegroCache. See documentation documentation for the prolog:db functor. AllegroCache support requires an updated version of AllegroCache that includes the pcache module.

This patch
• adds support for CBC (cipher block chaining) mode to the blowfish crypto functions.
• adds :external-format keyword args to blowfish-init, blowfish-encrypt, and blowfish-decrypt for use when converting string data.
• adds two utility functions to the excl package: hex-string-to-usb8-array and usb8-array-to-hex-string.

On the non-Windows platforms, the ACL SSL shared library is built with a static copy of the OpenSSL 0.9.8, which includes security fixes over previous versions. On Windows, the update needs openssl-0.9.8 installed and the 'out32dll' directory in the archive put into the PATH environment variable.

• Lift the 4GB restriction on file sizes that can be read/written by Allegro CL. Note that the underlying operating system and filesystem must support large files. Maximum filesize should be (1- (expt 2 63)).
• fstat has been fixed. This now works:

     (with-open-file (f "foo" :direction :output)
       (format f "foo~%")
       (force-output f)
       (delete-file "foo")
       (excl.osi:stat-size (excl.osi:fstat f)))
  
     now returns `4', instead of signalling an error.
  

• gethostname and link are implemented on Windows.

New features:
• CLOS wrappers for SOAP structures
• built-in definitions for many Schema types
• new warning hierarchy
• new condition hierarchy
• access to element attributes in SOAP messages
• attribute values may be computed when message is composed
• top-level multiRef handling
• multiple SOAP Body elements
• access to encoding and content-type headers
• complete access to all the message components
• user extensions to WSDL code generators