News¶

Significant events in the Open Dylan space…

Release 2023.1¶

2023-07-19 Release 2023.1 is now available! A few highlights…

Updated versions of LLVM and the BDW garbage collector.
New """multi-line""" and #r"raw" string literals (DEP 12).
The dylan tool (renamed to deft in Open Dylan 2024.2) continues to evolve with a new, simplified workspace model.
Bug fixes for json, command-line-parser, system, and others.

See the release notes for more details.

New website¶

2023-07-07 - The opendylan.org website has had a long overdue major overhaul. The goals of this revamp were:

Better navigation. For example, when reading documentation in the Library Reference it should be easy to navigate to the Hacker Guide or package docs. Now everything is accessible from the left sidebar.
Better accessibility. The old site had a very low contrast top navbar and other low contrast elements. The new Furo theme has much better contrast plus light and dark themes.
Local table of contents in the right sidebar. Hooray Furo!
Integrated package docs.
Simplicity! We’re a small team so we want to avoid any extra maintenance burden. To that end, we no longer use a Dylan-specific Sphinx theme or templates. If it ain’t in Furo, we don’t want it! :-)

We’d love to hear feedback on the new site. You can file a bug or drop us a note on Matrix.

Release 2022.1¶

2022-11-28 - New release: 2022.1

Dylan Playground¶

2020-12-30 - Dylan Playground Launched

Release 2020.1¶

2020-10-10 - New release: 2020.1

Release 2019.1¶

2019-03-31 - New release: 2019.1

Release 2014.1¶

2015-01-01 - New release: 2014.1

Nix Packages¶

2014-05-28 - Nix Packages Available

Open Dylan builds have been added to the Nix package manager. This makes Open Dylan installable from systems using Nix, or the NixOS Linux distribution.

Release 2013.2¶

2013-12-23 - New release: 2013.2

DUIM/Gtx¶

2013-08-15 - Bringing Back DUIM/Gtk

We’re bringing back the GTK+ backend for DUIM, the Dylan UI framework. See how you can help!

Release 2013.1¶

2013-07-11 - New release: 2013.1

We just released Open Dylan 2013.1 in preparation for the hack-a-thon.

Hack-a-thon¶

2013-06-30 - Dylan Hack-a-thon: July 13-14, 2013

No matter if you know Dylan or not, we can help you learn Dylan or put your other skills to use. We’ve got a good list of tasks that we’re collecting and some people will bring their own Dylan-related projects.

Updated Dylan Programming Guide¶

2013-01-21 - Updated Dylan Programming Guide

The Dylan Programming Guide has been updated to our new documentation format and is now available in PDF and ePub formats.

Release 2012.1¶

2012-12-20 - New release: 2012.1

We just released Open Dylan 2012.1. This release brings many bugfixes, improved platform support and new features.

Improved editor support¶

2012-10-18 - Improved editor support

Bugs in the syntax highlighting support for Textmate and Sublime Text as well as for vim have been fixed.

command-line-parser¶

2012-10-15 - command-line-parser library

The command-line-parser library has been completely rewritten.

New strings Library¶

2012-05-18 - New strings library

A new library of basic string operations is now available as a standard library.

C3 Linearization¶

2012-01-25 - C3 superclass linearization

Open Dylan now uses the C3 superclass linearization algorithm. It is enabled by default. This is more intuitive and will allow for further performance improvements.

DSWANK¶

2011-12-12 - Dswank - emacs and DIME

We developed DIME, the Dylan interaction mode for emacs, based on SLIME. Now, you can browse the class hierarchy, get argument lists, locate definitions, compile, view warnings and more, all from within emacs!

Release 2011.1¶

2011-12-10 - New release: 2011.1

We just released Open Dylan 2011.1. This release is our first since moving to GitHub and relicensing under a more liberal license. It brings many bugfixes, inmproved platform support and new features.

New documentation¶

2011-11-22 - New Documentation

We’re revitalizing our documentation and moving to a new publishing system. We’ll soon be able to provide our documentation in PDF and ePub as well as HTML, with it looking much better and being more maintainable than in the past.

New website¶

2011-11-22 - Welcome to the New Website!

As part of recharging Open Dylan development, we’ve re-done the website and cleaned up a lot of the old, out-dated material here.

If you’re looking for some of the old material, it can be found over at https://web.archive.org/web/20170313134206/http://old.opendylan.org/.