diff --git a/asdf.asd b/asdf.asd
index a9b28055f47f912b11af0073161ac28ef2be340e..8c8eae6bb9bbff350543495d4838208a4b2a7c54 100644
--- a/asdf.asd
+++ b/asdf.asd
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@
   :licence "MIT"
   :description "Another System Definition Facility"
   :long-description "ASDF builds Common Lisp software organized into defined systems."
-  :version "2.29.1" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
+  :version "2.29.2" ;; to be automatically updated by make bump-version
   :depends-on ()
   #+asdf3 :encoding #+asdf3 :utf-8
   ;; For most purposes, asdf itself specially counts as a builtin system.
diff --git a/find-system.lisp b/find-system.lisp
index addecb7240198baf912700c98491648b9eab5bcf..3e6e9ab5d0e8e00a36cfaa7f852a6fc4b18bac94 100644
--- a/find-system.lisp
+++ b/find-system.lisp
@@ -255,11 +255,15 @@ Going forward, we recommend new users should be using the source-registry.
   (defmacro with-system-definitions ((&optional) &body body)
     `(call-with-system-definitions #'(lambda () ,@body)))
 
-  (defun load-asd (pathname &key name (external-format (encoding-external-format (detect-encoding pathname))))
+  (defun load-asd (pathname &key name (external-format (encoding-external-format (detect-encoding pathname))) &aux (readtable *readtable*))
     ;; Tries to load system definition with canonical NAME from PATHNAME.
     (with-system-definitions ()
       (with-standard-io-syntax
         (let ((*package* (find-package :asdf-user))
+              ;; Note that our backward-compatible readtable is
+              ;; a global readtable that gets globally side-effected. Ouch.
+              ;; We should do something about that for ASDF3 if possible, or else ASDF4.
+              (*readtable* readtable)
               (*print-readably* nil)
               (*default-pathname-defaults*
                 ;; resolve logical-pathnames so they won't wreak havoc in parsing namestrings.
diff --git a/header.lisp b/header.lisp
index 06e22d8e01bc41400f48b5d8c687ad30cef07d24..99f2a249b70a1fa5267754ef4ae1563d58ab409b 100644
--- a/header.lisp
+++ b/header.lisp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; -*- mode: Common-Lisp; Base: 10 ; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp -*-
-;;; This is ASDF 2.29.1: Another System Definition Facility.
+;;; This is ASDF 2.29.2: Another System Definition Facility.
 ;;;
 ;;; Feedback, bug reports, and patches are all welcome:
 ;;; please mail to <asdf-devel@common-lisp.net>.
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@
   (declaim (optimize (speed 1) (safety 3) (debug 3)))
   (setf ext:*gc-verbose* nil))
 
-#+(or abcl clisp cmu ecl xcl)
+#+(or abcl clisp clozure cmu ecl xcl)
 (eval-when (:load-toplevel :compile-toplevel :execute)
   (unless (member :asdf3 *features*)
     (let* ((existing-version
@@ -71,7 +71,8 @@
            (existing-version-number (and existing-version (read-from-string existing-major-minor)))
            (away (format nil "~A-~A" :asdf existing-version)))
       (when (and existing-version (< existing-version-number
-                                     #+abcl 2.25 #+clisp 2.27 #+cmu 2.018 #+ecl 2.21 #+xcl 2.27))
+                                     #+abcl 2.25 #+clisp 2.27 #+clozure 2.27
+                                     #+cmu 2.018 #+ecl 2.21 #+xcl 2.27))
         (rename-package :asdf away)
         (when *load-verbose*
           (format t "; Renamed old ~A package away to ~A~%" :asdf away))))))
diff --git a/upgrade.lisp b/upgrade.lisp
index 79b7eafc9aac5e455abf47dcf144640123c87c44..c5d14f6a4dfa2d07f1c79f55bb014a70ff6123d7 100644
--- a/upgrade.lisp
+++ b/upgrade.lisp
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ You can compare this string with e.g.: (ASDF:VERSION-SATISFIES (ASDF:ASDF-VERSIO
          ;; "3.4.5.67" would be a development version in the official upstream of 3.4.5.
          ;; "3.4.5.0.8" would be your eighth local modification of official release 3.4.5
          ;; "3.4.5.67.8" would be your eighth local modification of development version 3.4.5.67
-         (asdf-version "2.29.1")
+         (asdf-version "2.29.2")
          (existing-version (asdf-version)))
     (setf *asdf-version* asdf-version)
     (when (and existing-version (not (equal asdf-version existing-version)))
diff --git a/version.lisp-expr b/version.lisp-expr
index 614207e602f99802c7f38b64f411f26f0647f195..8a71de5680247504740c5ae65f4e123d06a96b52 100644
--- a/version.lisp-expr
+++ b/version.lisp-expr
@@ -1 +1 @@
-"2.29.1"
+"2.29.2"