[GBBopen-announce] GBBopen Version 1.3

[Dan Corkill]

GBBopen Version 1.3 is released.  Version 1.3 includes the following  
changes:

   * Incompatible changes:
      - Optional arguments (other than the universal-time argument) have
        been changed to keyword arguments in BRIEF-DATE,
        BRIEF-DATE-AND-TIME, INTERNET-TEXT-DATE-AND-TIME,
        ISO8661-DATE-AND-TIME, MESSAGE-LOG-DATE-AND-TIME

  * Changes to GBBopen Tools
      - Saving/sending support for adjustable, fill-pointer, and
        element-typed vectors, bit-vectors, and arrays
      - New FULL-DATE-AND-TIME, BRIEF-DURATION, BRIEF-RUN-TIME-DURATION,
        ENCODE-DATE-AND-TIME, PARSE-DATE, PARSE-DATE-AND-TIME, PARSE- 
TIME,
        and PARSE-DURATION functions
      - Renamed: PRETTY-TIME-INTERVAL -> PRETTY-DURATION
                 PRETTY-RUN-TIME-INTERVAL -> PRETTY-RUN-TIME-DURATION
        the old names are deprecated and will be removed eventually
     - New MAKE-DUPLICATE-INSTANCE-CHANGING-CLASS generic function

   * Changes to GBBopen Core
      - New class, DELETED-UNIT-INSTANCE, is now used to represent  
deleted
        unit and space instances
      - New generic function, DELETED-INSTANCE-CLASS, and default method
        for STANDARD-UNIT-INSTANCE
      - New function, MAKE-INSTANCES-OF-CLASS-VECTOR
      - New abuts ordered-match operator to FIND-INSTANCES, etc.

See the CHANGES file (http://gbbopen.org/svn/GBBopen/trunk/CHANGES)  
and the GBBopen Reference (http://gbbopen.org/hyperdoc/)for more  
changes and details.

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