This is a timeline of things I, Zach Beane, noticed in 2004. Its compilation depended heavily on lemonodor, Bill Clementson's blog, Google, and Planet Lisp archives. But mostly lemonodor.

Please update it with things you find interesting and significant!

January

• Frode Vatvedt Fjeld announces Movitz

• Sven Van Caekenberghe announced the availabily of the KPAX web application framework

• ASDF-INSTALL ported to various places by Edi Weitz

• Planet Lisp begins

February

• Gary Byers releases OpenMCL 0.14.1, the first packaged release of OpenMCL with native threads

• Pierre Mai ports CMUCL to MacOS X

• Daniel Barlow begins an AMD64 port of SBCL; his initial enthusiasm for which lasts about two weeks

March

• Luke Gorrie creates the initial SLIME Manual

• CLISP 2.33 released

• Armed Bear Lisp becomes Armed Bear Common Lisp

April

• Dave Roberts starts Finding Lisp

• Jack Coleman starts Programming Languages, a Journey

• Common Lisp: An Interactive Approach is available online

• Antonio Menezes Leitao releases the first version of the Linj compiler

May

• Gary King starts unCLog

• bknr is announced

• Edi Weitz releases the initial version of tbnl

• Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters published

• Brian Mastenbrook announces Portable Araneida

June

• Franz announces a new regular expression API for Allegro CL

• Arthur Lemmens starts a Lisp user database

• Peter Herth releases Ltk, a Lisp binding to the Tk toolkit

July

• Franz announces a new Prolog implementation within Allegro CL

• Rich Hickey announces jfli

• The Libre Software Meeting 2004 in Bordeaux attracted many Free Lisp developers.

August

• Ben Lee releases the initial version of Elephant, a Lisp persistence system based on Berkeley DB

• Slime 1.0 beta released

• eboy.com re-launches, powered by cmucl and bknr

• CLSQL 3.0 released

• CMUCL 19a released, introducing dozens of new features and fixes

• Paolo Amoroso starts Lisp Propulsion Laboratory Log

September

• Christophe Rhodes starts work on Unicode support in SBCL (subsequently released in November 2004, in SBCL 0.8.17)

• SLIME 1.0 officially released

• Rich Hickey releases Lisplets

October

• Franz Allegro Common Lisp 7.0 is released

November

• Unicode support is added to the main branch of SBCL development

• Rick Taube releases lambda-gtk, an FFI binding to gtk2

• Mikel Evins begins the Skate project, an attempt to reproduce some of the functionality of the old SK8 environment

• Juho Snellman revives the SBCL port to AMD64. A (mostly) working SBCL for AMD64 is eventually merged in the first few days of 2005

December

• LispWorks 4.4 is released

• Conrad Barski creates a Lisp tutorial in comic form: Casting SPELs in Lisp

• Successful Lisp is published in book form

• Edi Weitz announces

  RDNZL, a Lisp library for interoperating with .Net

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