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fe463930 · ·This is a (doubly) preliminary release of the Common Lisp implementation of the Netfarm distributed object system, which provides an (somewhat hairy and underdocumented) implementation of the Netfarm protocols, client and server, except for an edge case where a computed value is created by an object that a node is not interested in (due to the filter imposed by a distributed hash-table) that affects an object that it is interested in. This version has been released after a month of full-time development being put into the implementation, as part of a "drive to 2020" that aimed to finalize most of the Netfarm protocol and complete an implementation, after one and a half years of development. The next step will be to decide how to handle the forementioned computed value bug, creating an interactor to allow users to present and create objects through a graphical interface, and some projects that use the Netfarm infrastructure to store and retrieve information. I am indebted to several people for their support and advice before and during the development that lead to this release: - My dearest friends Gnuxie and Jaidyn, who gave me plenty of feedback on how to proceed after the cancellation of the previous Nettle project, as well as emotional support - Jaidyn and Thufie for collaborating on the peer-production theory of software ownership, and how it relates to "software freedom" and ethics - Robert Strandh, who taught me out of a very strange anti-OOP phase I had two years ago, and for devising a generic dispatch system that is optionally used in the script machine and the CLOSOS object store which inspired me to try to represent proper objects in a distributed hash-table - Gilbert Baumann, who provided advice on the semantics (and naming) of cl-decentralise2 and further optimisation of the script machine, as well as the quote used in the introduction to Netfarm