Release Notes for 3.8


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Last updated at 12:44 pm UTC on 17 January 2006

The 3.8 release is a release with the main purpose of adding the m17n (Multilingualization) changes. (See this thread from squeak-dev for background on this.)

Done

added m17n changes
synch with Squeakland
SystemBrowser Registry: Allows to easily replace the Browser by another (e.g. RB, OmniBrowser)
faster BMP writing (factor 30)
small app for making proxy setting easier (plus automatic proxy setting for MacOS)
PNM ((pbm, pgm, ppm and pam) image support
Debugging:
- improved support for test first
- "force return" a value in the debugger
- PointerExplorer now part of the release
- easy conditional halts with #haltIf:
- PrimCallController: turn off primitives for testing
Morphic:
- Tab bar widget
- new progress bar
Fonts: support for underline and struckout for TrueType
automated userinput: allows to programed answeres for input dialogs
Blocks:
- bench: easy benchmarking
- valueWithin:onTimeout:
incorporated changes from the Turing Lecture image
support for anonymous Behaviors
support for Complex Numbers
Updated SUnit
- LongRunning Tests
- expected failures
hundreds of other small fixes and enhancements

3.8 Release

3.8 is released; Download see ftp://st.cs.uiuc.edu/pub/Smalltalk/Squeak/3.8/

This is a chart by Vanessa Freudenberg of how the development versions relate to this (5 Nov 2004):

Uploaded Image: Sq3.8-versions.png

Things which didn't make it in for 3.8 may still still planned for 3.9. See Release Plan for 3.9.

Major base-image content items to-do for 3.8

see Release Notes for 3.8

External/process-related items to-do for 3.8

An improved harvesting/update stream process will be implemented during 3.8, probably involving two update streams, the ability for a core group of committers to post updates directly, and possibly investigation of an external bug tracking utility. (Some of these are now finished, such as the setup of the Mantis Server bugtracker.)
We'll need to coordinate final release of 3.8 with the people working on the 64-bit Squeak 4.0 project. The original intent was to have the 4.0 release be the same as 3.8, except that 4.0 would include 64-bit support.