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Make sure you are getting the right repository. Once github began supporting organizations, we moved things to github.com/clojure (not github.com/richhickey).

You can get RC1 at the top of the download page (http://clojure.org/downloads). We would love to fix usability problems--let us know what got in your way of finding it.

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I'm very new to Clojure (just 1-2 weeks) so pardon my ignorance/mistake. I noticed that the new clojure-contrib.jar was 466KB while the older ones were over 3MB. So I thought it was either a template or a sample file and tried to compile it myself on Windows. I got errors similar to the link in my parent post. But now I just extracted the file and it works.

So what happened that shrunk the contrib-jar that much in this version?

Much functionality was moved from clojure-contrib into new namespaces in clojure itself; clojure.jar is now bigger by roughly the same amount that clojure-contrib.jar shrank :)

A lot of contrib stuff has matured and is now in the core.

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