Hi,

I updated the 3.8alpha image on the ftp site to 3.8beta.
It lives in ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.8beta.

I updated the 3.8alpha unstable image to 3.9alpha
and it lives in ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.9alpha.

I'll note that 3.9 alpha is therefore not a child of 3.8 beta
in spite of what one might think :-)

Michael was not joking, it took a while on my 233mhz PII.  Don't
laugh, it's my fastest system that I can leave up for a while.

cheers

bruce
   
Michael Rueger <michael at squeakland.org> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2004 10:10:19 -0800
> From: Michael Rueger <michael at squeakland.org>
> Subject: 3.8 beta release
> To: Squeak <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
> reply-to: The general-purpose Squeak developers list <squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org>
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> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> with a little delay we are proud to finally announce 3.8 beta and 3.9 alpha.
> 
> Please also read the part of magic incantation you may need to do in 
> some images where change sets weren't registered properly.
> 
> A little warning ahead: updating will take a looong time and as part of 
> the process recode your changes file to UTF-8.
> 
> What we have in this release and how you can get there:
> 
> 3.8beta
> --------
> updating through the 3.8alpha stable stream will get you all updates and 
> prompt you for advancing to 3.8beta.
> 
> This version includes m17n, all squeakland fixes and enhancements and 
> the all updates from 3.8 unstable except the UI and parse tree changes.
> 
> 3.9alpha
> --------
> updating through the 3.8 unstable will get you automatically to 3.9 
> alpha. Updating through 3.8 and switching to 3.9alpha will get you there 
> as well.
> 
> This version includes all of 3.8 beta plus the UI and parse tree changes.
> 3.9alpha stable and unstable are initially the same.
> 
> 
> What's next:
> ------------
> 
> we will now go through the mantis bug list and see which fixes are there 
> and which of the remaining (unfixed) bugs definitely need to be fixed 
> for 3.8 stable. If you have a pet bug and/or fix please make sure it is 
> registered on mantis (http://bugs.impara.de).
> 
> Kudos once again to all who contributed to this release, Yoshiki, Diego, 
> Bert, Andreas, Marcus, Ned, Scott, und so many others.
> 
> magic incantation:
> ------------------
> You need to invoke this if you get "this name is already in use" while 
> trying to update. Somehow broken images (with not properly registered 
> change sets) ended up at the download site:
> 
> ChangeSorter allChangeSetNames do: [:name |
>    name startsWithDigit ifTrue:
>      [SystemVersion current registerUpdate: name initialIntegerOrNil]].
> 
> 
> Michael