1.9.3: May Day

CHANGES

@@ -1,15 +1,17 @@
 Version 1.9.3
 =============
 
-April 29, 2024
+May 1, 2024
 
 <https://abcl.org/svn/tags/1.9.3/>
 <https://github.com/armedbear/abcl/>
 <https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/abcl/abcl/>
 
-* [r15780] Correcly signal error for incorrect MAKE-PATHNAME-TYPE
+* [r15780] Correctly signal error for incorrect MAKE-PATHNAME-TYPE
 
-* [r15775] Update to jna-5.14.0 
+* [r15775] Update to jna-5.14.0.  Support for CFFI is wonky under
+  darwin-arm64 with later JDKs: openjdk{11,17} succeed without segv
+  but with dubious results.
 
 * [r15779] (Tarn W. Burton) Add support for implementing
   CL:FILE-LENGTH in for Gray streams. This is done via the

doc/manual/abcl.tex

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 \title{Armed Bear Common Lisp User Manual}
 \date{Version 1.9.3  \\
 \smallskip
-April 2024}
+May 2024}
 \author{Mark Evenson \and Erik H\"{u}lsmann \and Rudolf Schlatte \and
   Alessio Stalla \and Ville Voutilainen}
 
@@ -124,9 +124,16 @@ \subsection{Preface to the Tenth Edition}
 \textsc{openjdk21}.  We intend to drop one or more of these platforms
 for the next edition in order to more completely overhaul the
 implementations use of compare and swap on memory originally allocated
-outside the hosting \textsc{JVM}.  The release binaries for Tenth
-edition are built with \textsc{openjdk11} but should run best
-on \textsc{openjdk21}.
+outside the hosting \textsc{JVM}.  
+
+\subsubsection{Preface to the Tenth Edition, Second Revision}
+
+With this release, the binaries for Second Revision of the Tenth
+Edition are built with \textsc{openjdk11}.  Users wishing to run on
+the venerable \textsc{openjdk8} platform may use the
+\textsc{ABCL-BUILD} contrib to recompile the implementation locally
+from source (see Section~\ref{section:abcl-build}
+page~\pageref{section:abcl-build}).
 
 \chapter{Introduction}