Re: [Help-smalltalk] GNU Smalltalk 3.2.3 released

[Stanislav Paskalev]

Congratulations on the release!
Stanislav Paskalev



On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 1:03 AM, Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden> wrote:
> As a prize for the loyal community members who organized the
> GNU Smalltalk/VisualGST sprint, GNU Smalltalk 3.2.3 has been
> released at
>
> * ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.2.3.tar.gz
>  SHA1 checksum: 036cf06a9fac8986cfced6fe953b92fcac853d3e
>
> * ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.2.3.tar.xz
>  SHA1 checksum: 9f9065490695e88240c5f0e9b88c3c6d6d631eef
>
> This is a minor release, but it includes a few new features. The most
> important is support for HTTPS in gst-package, subject to the presence
> of the GnuTLS library to be present in the host.
>
> * Class attributes can have more than 1 keyword.
>
> * Documented #byteArrayOut C call argument passing mode.
>
> * Fixed crash when an invalid UnicodeString was created using
> #changeClassTo:
>
> * Fixed deadlock with #atEnd and two-way pipes.
>
> * Fixed bugs when adding instance variables to an existing class.
>
> * Fixed Socket>>#isPeerAlive falsely returning true.
>
> * Fixed some bugs in UTF-7 conversion.
>
> * FreeBSD port and 64-bit Darwin port.  The latter requires a
> pre-installed libsigsegv.
>
> * "gst-convert -f squeak" reads binary selectors with more than two
> characters; however they should be shortened with rewrite rules
> to use the output.
>
> * gst-doc can generate sensible documentation for a package if
> some of its prerequisite are not loaded, even if some of the
> package's classes subclass from the prerequisite.
>
> * GTK+ bindings are generated correctly for newer versions of GLib
> (tested up to 2.26).
>
> * If found, pre-installed libsigsegv, libffi and libltdl are used by
> default.
>
> * Improvements for Emacs mode.  Installation of Emacs mode detects
> Debian's /etc/emacs/site-start.d, and a --with-lispstartdir option
> is provided for distributions that are not Red Hat- or Debian-based.
>
> * Machine-specific optimizations for x86-64, and other microoptimizations
> resulting in small but consistent performance improvements.
>
> * More out of memory conditions are detected.
>
> * New methods: ByteArray>>#castTo:, ByteArray>>#asCData,
> String>>#asCData, UndefinedObject>>#inheritsFrom:
>
> * New goodie: Announcements.
>
> * Number class>>#readFrom: can parse numbers in scientific notation.
>
> * Package descriptions do not need to include a <file> item for each
> <filein> item.  However, it is still possible to include them for
> backwards compatibility, and it is possible to include a source file
> as both <filein> and <built-file> (so that gst-package --dist will
> skip it).
>
> * Packages can be downloaded using HTTPS if GnuTLS libraries are
> present.
>
> * Performance statistics printed by -V are now correct.
>
> * Scoped methods ("A class >> a") can be used in an "A class [ ... ]"
> block.
>
> * Semaphore>>#wait returns nil if the wait was interrupted externally
> (e.g. from Process>>#resume).
>
> * String>>#asCData: and String>>#asCData NULL-terminate their output.
>
> * Support for timeouts when waiting on a Semaphore.
>
> * Swazoo supports SCGI.  Its configuration however is still manual,
> since the Seaside and Iliad adaptors do not know about it.
>
> * Updated VisualGST.
>
> Special thanks to Gwenael Casaccio, Holger Hans Peter Freyre, Nicolas
> Petton, Mathieu Suen for helping with many of the above features and for
> testing the development versions of GNU Smalltalk.
>
> Paolo Bonzini
>
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