Congratulations to you all! It has been a hard piece of work which was postponed 9 months. But the changes to collaboration process, build process, 64 bit maturing and huge list of things was worth it. Hopefully the next version is less huge.
Happy to be able to take part!!! Norbert > Am 22.01.2019 um 14:36 schrieb Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com>: > > Pharo 7.0 released! > =============== > > Dear World and dynamic language lovers: > > The time has come for Pharo 7.0! > > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > > <pastedGraphic.png> > > > This is our most significant release yet. Here are the key highlights of this > release: > > • Pharo is now provided in 64-bit version in Linux and OSX and brings > even better performance and stability. The 64-bit version is now recommended > for Linux and Mac, and is provided as technical preview for Windows. > • Pharo comes with a new version of the PharoLauncher > (https://pharo.org/download): THE tool to manage your distributions (access > to regular versions, jenkins builds, and older versions). > • Pharo build has a fully new build process that supports its full > bootstrap from sources. This will enable the production to specific (micro) > images. > • Iceberg, the git client for Pharo has been significantly improved, > and is the default CMS. > • Calypso, the angular stone of PharoThings, is the new system Pharo > browser. It replaces Nautilus and brings better remote working and more > advanced browsing capabilities. > • IoT is now an important part of Pharo. Installing PharoThings > (https://github.com/pharo-iot/PharoThings) provides an impressive amount of > tools to develop applications in small devices. > • The unified foreign function interface (UnifiedFFI) for interfacing > with the outside world is significantly improved to work properly on Windows > 64-bit. > > Pharo 70’s new infrastructure and process set the stage for a new generation > of version. > The visibility of GitHub combined with the powerful tools that have been > validated with more than one year of beta testing is massively pay off. > > These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as > important. > > We have closed a massive amount of issues: 2142 issues! (A comprehensive > changelog can be found at: > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo70ChangeLogs.md). > > While the technical improvements are significant, still the most impressive > fact is that the new code that got in the main Pharo 7.0 image was > contributed by more than 75 people. > > Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving energetic > people. We thank all the contributors of this release: > > Gabriel Omar Cotelli, Gustavo Santos, Marcus Denker, Torsten Bergmann, > Esteban Lorenzano, Bernardo Ezequiel Contreras, Guille Polito, Pablo Tesone, > Yoan Geran, Stéphane Ducasse, Cyril Ferlicot, Vincent Blondeau, Denis > Kudriashov, Julien Delplanque, Tim Mackinnon, Max Leske, Andrew P. Black, > Tomohiro Oda, Clément Béra, Ben Coman, Eric Gade, Yuriy Tymchuk, Nicolas > Cellier, Biyalou-Sama Asbath, Myroslava, Sean DeNigris, Juraj Kubelka, Noury > Bouraqadi, Holger Freyther, Geoff Reedy, Norbert Hartl, Paul DeBruicker, > Alain Plantec, Martín Dias, Peter Uhnak, Tomohiro Oda, Benoît Verhaeghe, > Santiago Bragagnolo, Wouter van Zuilen, Bernhard Pieber, Damien Pollet, Geoff > Hill, Hans-Martin Mosner, Ronie Salgado, Philippe Back, Aliaksei Syrel, Dayne > Guerra, Rafael Luque, Serge Stinckwich, Vincent Aranega, Hernán Morales > Durand, Petr Fischer, Rajula Vineet Reddy, Alexandre Bergel, Esteban A. > Maringolo, Jan Blizničenko, Johan Brichau, Luc Fabresse, Quentin Ducasse, > Sébastien Roccaserra, Stephan Eggermont, Sven Van Caekenberghe, Takano > Mitsuhiro, Pavel Krivanek, Allex Oliveira, Christophe Demarey, Lionel Akue, > Nicolai Hess, Martin McClure, Alistair Grant, Pierre Tsapliayev, Milton > Mamani, Matteo Marra, Thomas Dupriez, Asbathou Biyalou-Sama. > (If you contributed with Pharo 7.0 development in any way and we missed your > name, please send us a mail and we will add you). > > Enjoy! > The Pharo Team > > Try Pharo: http://pharo.org/download > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation >
