[UPDATES] 3.4 is now final

Chris Burkert christian.burkert at s2000.tu-chemnitz.de
Mon Mar 3 09:19:08 UTC 2003


Doug Way wrote:
> 
> Hello all, 3.4 is now finalized!
> 
> I just issued an update offering the choice of moving a 3.4gamma image 
> to 3.4, or to 3.5alpha.  (Technically, the choice was already offered in 
> an earlier update when 3.4gamma was created, but since the two update 
> streams contain the same fixes, I offered the choice again.)
> 
> A 3.4 final image/changes/readme .zip file is available on the ftp site, 
> here:
> 
> ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.4/
> 
> Please give this a quick test if you have a chance, just to make sure 
> there are no major problems with the image.  A major problem roughly 
> meaning: any significant problem which was *not* in 3.4gammaOne.
> 
> This image should be identical to 3.4gammaOne, except for incorporating 
> the last update (5170), and some content changes in the Welcome... 
> window, which were discussed on the SqF list (on Feb. 4 & 8).
> 
> The 3.4 release is still not complete in the sense that the squeak.org 
> downloads page has not been updated to point to the appropriate 3.4 
> bundles.  When that is done, that will be the true "release date" for 
> 3.4.  Allowing a few days to make sure there are no major problems with 
> this image, and also to create the release bundles with VMs, I think we 
> should shoot for updating squeak.org in 3-4 days.
> 
> Anyway, I'd like to thank Scott Wallace for spending time helping me get 
> the update stream going, and with all of the release details.  And, of 
> course, thanks to all of SqC for "releasing" Squeak to the Guides and 
> the community at large!
> 
> - Doug Way

Thanks for all this great work! This 3.4 image runs perfect on my 
FreeBSD 5.0.

Regards
            Chris Burkert
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