<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">We are proud to announce the release of Pharo 2.0!<br><br>You can find information about Pharo at: <a href="http://www.pharo-project.org/">http://www.pharo-project.org</a><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><br><br>About this release<br>------------------<br>All in all, there were over 1600 issues treated in the issue tracker <br>and 1350 improvements integrated into 2.0.<br><br><a href="http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=Milestone%3D2.0+status%3AIntegrated">http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=Milestone%3D2.0+status%3AIntegrated</a><br><br>Read it again, yes 1350 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of <br>improvements! Now you got the feel of the effort. And this was a true community <br>effort. It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply thank them.<br><br>We want to thank Inria for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor<br>Stasenko and Esteban Lorenzano, and for the help in the infrastructure.<br><br>We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were together. Do not<br>forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system:<br><br>- <a href="http://consortium.pharo.org/">http://consortium.pharo.org</a> (for companies and organizations)<br>- <a href="http://association.pharo.org/">http://association.pharo.org</a> (for individuals)<br><br>Our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and<br>programming skills.<br><br>You can find information about Pharo on <a href="http://www.pharo-project.org/">http://www.pharo-project.org</a>. In particular, <br>you may be interested in:<br><br>- Joining us and getting help <a href="http://www.pharo-project.org/community">http://www.pharo-project.org/community</a><br>- Getting the Pharo By Example book (available as a free PDF): <a href="http://www.pharobyexample.org/">http://www.pharobyexample.org</a><br>- Watching the screencasts <a href="http://www.pharocasts.com/">http://www.pharocasts.com</a><br>- Reporting problems <a href="http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking">http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking</a><br>- Reading the forth coming book <a href="http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2">http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2</a><br>- Reading the Pharo vision document <a href="http://bit.ly/HNkEru">http://bit.ly/HNkEru</a><br><br>Thanks a lot for your participation, energy and fun.<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>-- The Pharo Team<br><br>Summarized issues for 2.0<br>==================<br><br>UI<br>---<br><br>- Spec<br>- Widget enhancements<br>- Layout improvements/cleanups<br>- Keybindings<br>- New icons (famfam)<br>- Growl style notifications<br>- Revamp progress bar<br><br>Developer tools<br>---------------<br><br>- Nautilus browser<br>- Critics browser<br>- Improved version diff browsing<br>- Spotlight<br>- Revamp Code Completion and smart chars<br>- Interactive navigation using ctrl/cmd+click over classes/methods<br>- Shout themes<br>- Andreas profiler<br><br>Networking<br>-----------<br><br>- Update Zinc<br>- Zodiac (SSL)<br><br>System<br>-------<br><br>- System Announcer<br>- RPackage replacing PackageInfo<br>- Command line tools / Headless mode<br>- Native boost<br>- Update Ring metamodel<br>- Fuel serializer<br>- Freetype fonts<br><br>Kernel<br>------<br><br>- DateAndTime refactoring<br>- Updated FileSystem and replaced FileDirectory<br><br>VM<br>--<br><br>- Latests cog builds<br>- SSLPlugin<br>- FilePlugin enhancements<br>- SocketPlugin fixes<br>- Included libraries: freetype2, cairo<br><br>Cleanups<br>-------------<br><br>- FileDirectory removed (replaced by FileSystem)<br>- SmartRefStream and ReferenceStream removed (replaced by Fuel)<br>- PackageInfo deprecated (replaced by RPackage)<br><br>Other<br>-------<br><br>- Zeroconf scripts<br>- Continuous Integration for every aspect of our release process.<br><br>Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression, <br>you can find better explanation here: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ActionsInPharo20">https://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ActionsInPharo20</a><br><br></body></html>