[ANN] Clojure 1.8.0-alpha5

[Alex Miller]

Clojure 1.8.0-alpha5 is now available.

Try it via

• Download: https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/clojure/clojure/1.8.0-alpha5
  
• Leiningen: [org.clojure/clojure "1.8.0-alpha5"]
  

The 1.8.0-alpha5 release reverts the change made for CLJ-1250 in 1.8.0-alpha3 due to issues covered in CLJ-1793. 

String Functions

Several new string functions were added to increase portability with ClojureScript and reduce the need for Java interop calls:

• clojure.string/index-of - search for the index of a char or string in a string
• clojure.string/last-index-of - search for the index of a char or string backwards in a string
• clojure.string/starts-with? - true if string starts with a substring
• clojure.string/ends-with? - true if string ends with a substring
• clojure.string/includes? - true if string includes a substring

For more info:

• CLJ-1449
  

Server Socket and REPL 

This feature is a work in progress, and feedback is appreciated!

The Clojure runtime now has the ability to start a socket server at initialization based on system properties. One expected use for this is serving a socket-based REPL, but it also has many other  potential uses for dynamically adding server capability to existing programs without code changes.

A socket server will be started for each JVM system property like "clojure.server.<server-name>". The value for this property is an edn map representing the configuration of the socket server with the following properties:
server-daemon - defaults to true, socket server thread doesn't block exit
address - host or address, defaults to loopback
port - positive integer, required
accept - namespaced symbol of function to invoke on socket accept, required
args - sequential collection of args to pass to accept
bind-err - defaults to true, binds `*err*` to socket out stream
client-daemon - defaults to true, socket client thread doesn't block exit

Additionally, there is a repl function provided that is slightly customized for use with the socket server in clojure.core.server/repl.

Following is an example of starting a socket server with a repl listener. This can be added to any existing Clojure program to allow it to accept external REPL clients via a local connection to port 5555.

    -Dclojure.server.repl="{:port 5555 :accept clojure.core.server/repl}"

An example client you can use to connect to this socket repl is telnet:

    $ telnet 127.0.0.1 5555
    Trying 127.0.0.1...
    Connected to localhost.
    Escape character is '^]'.
    user=> (println "hello")
    hello

See:
* CLJ-1671
* Socket REPL design page

Other changes

Below is a list of the other changes included in alpha5. See the full change log here: https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/changes.md.

• CLJ-1319 array-map fails lazily if passed an odd number of arguments
• CLJ-1766 Serializing+deserializing lists breaks their hash
• CLJ-1609 Edge case in Reflector's search for a public method declaration
• CLJ-1586 Compiler doesn't preserve metadata for LazySeq literals
• CLJ-1232 Functions with non-qualified return type hints will now work without import from other namespace
• Records and types without fields eval to empty map
• CLJ-1812 Recently-added test fails on Windows
• CLJ-1778 let-bound namespace-qualified bindings should throw (if not map destructuring)

[Tom Marble]

On Friday, September 11, 2015 at 8:41:34 AM UTC-5, Alex Miller wrote:

Clojure 1.8.0-alpha5 is now available.

 

 I am pleased to report that this version of Clojure builds fine with the early access version of JDK 9 (w/jigsaw):
http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/jigsaw-dev/2015-September/004480.html
https://jdk9.java.net/jigsaw/

tmarble@ficelle 141 :) mvn -version
Apache Maven 3.3.3
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 1.9.0-ea, vendor: Oracle Corporation
Java home: /home/tmarble/src/oracle/jdk1.9.0
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "4.1.0-2-amd64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"
tmarble@ficelle 142 :) time mvn package > build-14.log 2>&1 &
[1] 7124
tmarble@ficelle 143 :) tail -7 build-14.log
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time: 01:49 min
[INFO] Finished at: 2015-09-15T10:09:43-05:00
[INFO] Final Memory: 17M/128M
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
tmarble@ficelle 144 :)

Regards,

--Tom

[Alex Miller]

Glad to hear it! 

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