Release 1.4 Planning

This page and subpages capture planning for Release.Next. This is higher-level than specific tasks (linked below).

The current planned release will be Clojure version 1.4. This page is in development and subject to change.

Any bugs that crop up during the 1.4 cycle will be addressed post-haste.

High-level Overview

Open Questions

• Please post to the Clojure mailing list or the Clojure/dev mailing list if you have any questions about the contents of this page.

User-facing changes

• Enhanced core documentation
  • General Documentation
  • Numerics
  • Docstrings
  • Clojure.org updates
  • What's new/changed docs
• Error reporting
  • Stack Traces
  • Enhanced error messages
• CLJ Launcher

Clojure core changes

Implementation details

• Conditional compilation
  • Debug builds
    • design page needed
  • more?
• Clojure Instant Literal & Library
• ASM abstraction and upgrade
• Frames
  • design page needed

Language-level API Changes

• Scopes
• Distinguishing field access

Clojure Contrib

• Accurate documentation and listings
  • How to use? How to integrate?
• Jira views for each?
• More libraries rolled in
  • Candidates?
• Build profiles
• Benchmarks

Follow Along in JIRA

Possible Enhancements and Fixes

• Open / All issues for Release.Next
• Approved Backlog issues are not currently slated for the next release. Please add comments and/or vote up issues important to you!