Squeak 3.7 released!
Brad Fuller
Brad at Sonaural.com
Wed Sep 15 22:08:01 UTC 2004
When the new Windows VM becomes available, will it be added to the ZIP
file?
Doug Way wrote:
>
> 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:
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> * 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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