Posted in Dylan by Bruce Mitchener, Jr. on Wed 21 August 2013 .

Last month, we had our first hack-a-thon in many years. Attendance was spread out over the weekend and some great contributions got completed.

Carl Gay documented our regular expressions library.

Peter Housel made more solid progress on our LLVM compiler back-end.

Dustin Voss improved some aspects of our support for limited collections.

Ingo Promovicz improved support for locking I/O streams.

Bruce Mitchener worked on merging run-time libraries to help provide more consistent support for various features across the various compiler back-ends.

Francesco Ceccon worked on the gobject-introspection bindings and the generator for creating C-FFI bindings for the GTK+ family of libraries.

Hannes Mehnert addressed some issues in the networking library surrounding localhost connections.

Andreas Bogk returned from the dead and observed the goings on after a multi-year absence.

Tom Emerson began investigating providing support for Unicode in Dylan.

Robert Roland enhanced the sqlite bindings.

Thanks to everyone who participated and we're looking forward to our next hack-a-thon in a couple of months.

All of these changes and much much more will be present in our upcoming 2013.2 release!