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 informa