Folks -

I've uploaded an updated trunk image at

   http://ftp.squeak.org/trunk/Squeak3.10.2-Trunk-091114.zip

Since there were some complaints recently that it's difficult to follow 
the commit messages, below is the "What's New" (also in the above image) 
which is a summarized version of the main changes.

Cheers,
   - Andreas

This is a list of the main achievements that went into the trunk image.
The list is in reverse chronological order, newest additions on the top:

Kernel
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Support for isolation layers has been retired. "self-evaluation" as a 
concept has been removed since every object can be forced to be 
self-evaluating by asking for its storeString.

Projects
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Project refactoring are an ongoing process. Project itself has been 
split into Project / MVCProject / MorphicProject such that Project 
itself is abstract and various requests are handled properly in the 
subclasses.

Collections
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Several improvements have been added to Collections. Sets have become 
faster, Arrays now print in brace form by default, Dictionary>>keys 
return an array instead of a set.

Monticello
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Various load-order issues have been fixed within Monticello, making 
loading of packages more robust. Monticello and PackageInfo have been 
sped up in several areas making browsing of large repositories 
significantly faster.

Faster UTF-8 Conversions
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Generalize trick from ByteString>>#squeakToUtf8 to every converter using 
class instance variables. Dramatically improves performance of file 
operations.

FaceLift
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An adaptation of Newspeak's Facelift look has been added to Squeak under 
the code name of "Botox" (meaning a small set of carefully chosen 
injections to improve the out of the box look for Squeak).

Shout
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Shout (Syntax Hightlighting As You Type) has been added to this image. 
As with all new additions, it can be easily unloaded for people wanting 
smaller images.

ToolBuilder conversion
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All the tools have been given a make-over, removing pretty much all of 
the interface construction code and replacing it by ToolBuilder specs. 
This removes a huge amount of dependencies between the tools and 
particular UI frameworks, and puts all the UIs on equal footing (there 
were several tools that were either not all or only partially supported 
in MVC before).

New Text Editors
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A complete new set of text editors (Editor, TextEditor and 
SmalltalkEditor) are available. They replace TextMorphEditor and break 
one of the last hard links between Morphic and MVC. With the new editors 
it will finally become possible to have Morphic be self-contained 
without the need to rely on portions of MVC.

Morphic Text Improvements
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Morphic has now regular blinking insertion point cursors instead of the 
(virtually invisible) static cursor previously. In addition, various 
problems with mixing fonts and the heights of text have been fixed.

Preference Pragmas
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Preference pragmas simplify dealing with preferences by providing 
automatic discovery for preferences defined in your classes. No more 
littering Preferences; you can now define preferences local to your 
class and store the values in regular class variables. The preference 
gets automatically discovered by using the 
<preference:category:description:type:> pragma.

Beautiful, Anti-Aliased Fonts
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We have a new set of beautiful anti-aliased Deja Vu bitmap fonts in this 
image. The default sizes include 7pt (for handheld devices), 9pt 
(generic text, list and menu fonts) as well as 12pt (window and title 
fonts):
	Deja Vu 7pt: Regular, Bold, Italics
	Deja Vu 9pt: Regular, Bold, Italics
	Deja Vu 12pt: Regular, Bold, Italics

Russian Language Support
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To input text in Russian language, install a font supporting the 
Cyrillic alphabet, then switch the locale accordingly:

	TTFileDescription installFamilyNamed: 'Arial'.
	Locale switchToID: (LocaleID isoLanguage: 'ru').

This will enable Russian text input, display and processing.

Improved Truetype Support
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The new TTFileDescription works just like TTFontDescription but operates 
on the files directly on disk. This helps greatly to support the m17n 
efforts since we no longer load all the fonts into memory. To use the 
available fonts on your platform, select some text, hit Cmd-k (Alt-k) 
and select "More (non-portable) fonts".

Full Closure Support
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This is a closure converted image. With full closure support, you can 
finally use recursive blocks like here:

	fac := [:n| n > 1 ifTrue:[n * (fac value: n-1)] ifFalse:[1]].
	fac value: 5.

and close over temps correctly, such as here:

	(1 to: 10) do:[:i| WorldState addDeferredUIMessage:[Transcript cr; 
show: i]].

A new Development Model
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This image is being developed using a new development model described at

	http://board.squeak.org/2009/07/02/a-new-community-development-model/

The image itself started as Squeak3.10.2-7179-basic.image. It was then 
updated from http://source.squeak.org/trunk. In order to keep track of 
ongoing development, simply hit the 'Load Code Updates' button.