... are not used by the release builder? Why?

Browsing changes to defaultValueTableForCurrentRelease would make it easy to see what changed lately. Also, it allows a user to go back to a "safe" set of preferences.

Now prefs are overridden in a private method in release builder. I don't think that's a good idea. outOfTheBox should mean outOfTheBox :)

Below is something I extracted from an older diff of yours showing only new things. Can you tell us what else is different in this release?

- Bert -

setPreferences 
	Workspace shouldStyle: false.
	SystemWindow reuseWindows: true.
	TextEditor
		 autoEnclose: true ;
		 autoIndent: false ;
		 destructiveBackWord: false ;
		 blinkingCursor: false ;
		 dumbbellCursor: true.
	BalloonMorph setBalloonColorTo:
		(TranslucentColor
			r: 0.92
			g: 0.92
			b: 0.706
			alpha: 0.75).
	Preferences
		 insertionPointColor: Color red ;
		 enable: #traceMessages ;
		 enable: #thoroughSenders ;
		 enable: #diffsWithPrettyPrint ;
		 enable: #alternativeBrowseIt.
	ProportionalSplitterMorph
		 smartHorizontalSplitters: true ;
		 smartVerticalSplitters: true.

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