Squeak 3.7 released!
Doug Way
dway at mailcan.com
Wed Sep 15 17:09:22 UTC 2004
Squeak 3.7 is released! It was a bit of a long time coming, but it is
now available for download at http://squeak.org. Thanks to everyone
who contributed in one way or another.
PR announcements will be going out to various public places soon.
Here's a summary of the major new features in 3.7, copied from the
"What's New" section in the Welcome Window:
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* Version 2 of SqueakMap, a major upgrade which supports multiple
releases for packages, user accounts and much more.
* Babel, a framework for supporting language translations in the
UI. (e.g. French, Swedish, etc.)
* SmaCC, the Smalltalk Compiler Compiler deployment runtime from
John Brant. The SmaCC development tool lets you define a
parser/compiler.
* Some packages removed and placed on SqueakMap, including the XML
parser and IRC.
* The Accufonts bitmap font set. This means the original Apple
NewYork font has been removed, to help clean up the Squeak-L licensing
issue regarding fonts.
* BitstreamVeraFonts, a set of free TrueType/antialiased fonts.
* Chronology package. This contains ANSI DateTime, refactored Date
and Time classes.
* The remaining ANSI compatibility methods. Squeak now includes
all of the major ANSI compatibility changes.
* A Change Notification framework from the KCP team at Berne. This
sends consistent notification messages when code changes happen in the
system.
* Latest updates from the SqueakLand/Etoys world.
* An enhanced look and feel including menu icons, gradient
scrollbars and window titlebar buttons, etc.
* Horizontal scrollbars now supported in all scrollable text/list
panes, and very large lists are now supported with LargeLists.
* Class comments immediately visible in Browsers when a new class
is viewed.
* Enhancement packages incorporated from SqueakMap: NamedProcess,
ShrinkingSelection/ParenBlinking, BreakpointSupport, LargeLists.
* Support for animated GIFs and saving PNG files.
* Support for compressed source files.
* New class Matrix which replaces Array2D.
* The usual numerous small enhancements and fixes.
- Doug
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