Clojurists Together Update: July and August 2026

Time for another bi-monthly update on the work that Clojurists Together are funding this year - my maintenance of nREPL, CIDER and friends. I published the previous one as a blog post for the first time and the feedback was good enough that I’ll keep doing it. Last time I said that I had plucked most of the low-hanging fruit and that the next two months were unlikely to be as productive. Well, I was wrong. CIDER 2.0 finally shipped, and once it was out the door I used the momentum to sweep through pretty much every corner of the nREPL/CIDER ecosystem. A few long-neglected projects got proper releases, and nREPL got a couple of brand new implementations in languages I play on the side from time to time. The big highlights from my perspective: CIDER 2.0 (“Terceira”) is out, followed by 2.0.1, and 2.1 is taking shape on master clj-refactor 4.0 is out Sayid went from 0.4 to 0.8 in the span of three weeks Drawbridge, nREPL’s HTTP transport, got its first meaningful release in years nREPL…