[Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk 2.95f released

[Paolo Bonzini]

The first release candidate for GNU Smalltalk 3.0 can be downloaded from

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-2.95f.tar.gz

The new release includes the following changes:

* fixes in the regex matcher handling of options m and s

* fixes in Unicode handling; the example JSON parser now handles Unicode 
input correctly

* up-to-date checks for the image use nanosecond resolution

* the browser is now working with the new syntax

* the known bugs in method recompilation and class mutation in 2.95a to 
2.95e have been fixed

* flushing a socket tries to push data all the way down to the network

* Promise objects save any exception generated in the child process and 
forward it to the process that calls #value

* the error code is 1 if the user tries to load a nonexistent file

* the XML package has been split into five smaller packages 
(XML-SAXDriver, XML-DOM, XML-SAXParser, XML-NodeBuilder and XML-XMLParser).

Paolo