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Clojure 1.9.0-RC2 is now available.

Try it via

- Leiningen: [org.clojure/clojure "1.9.0-RC2"]

1.9.0-RC2 is largely the same as RC1 but has the following changes:

- There is a new Maven profile and Ant target in the build to build an executable Clojure jar with deps included (and test.check). This can be useful for doing dev on Clojure itself or for just cloning the repo and doing a quick build to get something runnable.

- The readme.txt has been updated to include information about how to create and run a local jar.

- We have stopped publishing the clojure-VERSION.zip file as part of the release.

We would appreciate anything you can do to try out this release. We do not plan to make any further changes prior to 1.9.0 unless regressions are found.

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I should also mention that I've re-built the Clojure doc automation process and the Clojure docs have refreshed for the first time in a long while. Most importantly, the 1.9 docs are up to date and now include specs for things that have been spec'ed:

Example macro with specs:

Additionally, I am in the process of overhauling the contrib project doc automation. In the meantime, I have at least done a manual update of the spec API docs:

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Thanks, Alex!

Michael Glaesemann
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Great choices on how to present core specs -- really clean & readable.

Thanks!

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Specs in docs are nice, great addition.

2 things related to them :
- what is `quotable` ? Couldn't find its docs in the page
- I suppose `:closure.core.spec.alpha/exclude` refers to a spec, but again it's absent from the docs. A quick search in clojure.core and spec.alpha repos didn't reveal it. Where are they defined ? It would be nice if they where included in docs and/or were clickable directly from docstrings.

Thanks again for your hard work.

Alex Miller

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Thanks for the pointers Alex. Hopefully the problems will be solved one day, most Clojure API will be spec'd and we'll be happy.

Keep up the good work.