We are pleased to announce the release of Clojure 1.8.

Some of the new features for 1.8 are:

More string functions in clojure.string (portable to ClojureScript): index-of, last-index-of, starts-with?, ends-with?, includes?

Compiler direct linking - improves performance and startup time

Socket server and socket server REPL - adds the ability to allow remote Clojure REPL connections

For more information, see the complete list of all changes since Clojure 1.7 for more details.

Contributors

Thanks to all of those who contributed to Clojure 1.8 (first time contributors in bold):