Hi Fabio,

On Sun, Sep 25, 2016 at 12:10 PM, Fabio Niephaus <lists@fniephaus.com> wrote:
Hi Eliot,

I've created a GitHub release for 201608171728 (see [1]) which is
considered to be stable. Feel free to add a changelog if you have some
time. You can find all commits after r3732 at [2].

Thanks, will do.
 
Is there any particular milestone for the next release?

Looking through my emails I see the following for Squeak 6.0:

"For 6.0 I'm hoping we will do

- the Sista bytecode set (with backwards compatibility support for the existing set).  This gives us 32k literals,
- FullBlockClosure, which means I depended method objects for blocks, and hence (slightly) faster block activation
- read-only objects and hence read-only literals

These three provide the necessary support for the image-level Scorch adaptive optimiser.  This will be demonstrated at ESUG in Prague and productized by next year"

Clément and I have already put the byte code set and full block support into the latest 32-bit Spur VM source.  I should remember to put these into the 64-bit ones too.  I think Clément has added read-only-object support to the Pharo VM.  The Squeak VM will follow soon.

So yes, these three, Sista Bytecode Set as secondary byte code set, FullBlockClosure support and read-only-object support are the major items for the next release.

 
Best,

cheers,
Eliot
 

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 12:16 AM Fabio Niephaus <lists@fniephaus.com> wrote:
Hi Eliot,
I am currently traveling, but I'm happy to take care of this next week.
The procedure is really simple: basically you need to create a Git tag [1] which you can then turn into a GitHub release, or you can just do all of this in one step using GitHub's UI (see [2]).

Best,
Fabio


On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:38 PM Eliot Miranda <eliot.miranda@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi All, Hi Fabio,

   if one looks at the Releases tab on https://github.com/OpenSmalltalk/opensmalltalk-vm it says there is only one release, the r3732 release from August when we moved to github.  Can we mark the 5.1 release as a second release?  How is this done?

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