Congratulations for the release and the hard work everyone is doing improving this open environment
On Mon, Jan 20, 2020 at 10:24 AM Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear World and dynamic language lovers: > The time has come for Pharo 8.0 <https://pharo.org/>! > Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful > environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback. > > Here are the key highlights of this release: > > - The 64-bit version has become the recommended version for Windows as > it was for Unix and OSX. > - Iceberg, the git client for Pharo, reached its version 1.6.5 with > several improvements and bugfixes. > - Calypso, Pharo’s system browser has new and better refactoring > integrations and AST-based suggestions for class definitions. > - The unified foreign function interface (UnifiedFFI) has been > improved with more support for literal objects, better type coercions, and > more documentation. > - > > Several speed improvements in code searches and compilation. > > In addition, this version includes several previews of new tools such as > the Spec2 GUI framework with native widget integration and the new DrTests > test analysis tool and opens the door for the upcoming headless VMs for > servers and non-blocking FFI. > These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as > important. We have closed a massive amount of issues: 2805 issues! > A comprehensive changelog can be found at > https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo80ChangeLogs.md > <https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo60ChangeLogs.md> > ). > While the technical improvements are significant, still the most > impressive fact is that the new code that got in the main Pharo 8.0 image > was contributed by more than 100 people. > Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving energetic > people. We thank all the contributors to this release: > Serge Stinckwich, Myroslava Romaniuk, Hilaire Fernandes, Alexandre Bergel, > David Bajger, Sean DeNigris, Theodore Moen, Dayne Guerra Calle, Juraj > Kubelka, Max Leske, Santiago Jose Dandois, Alistair Grant, Sabine Mana, > Chia Yu, Stephan Eggermont, Milton Mamani, Pavel Krivanek, Ben Coman, > Marcus Denker, Pierre Misse, Christophe Demarey, Allex Oliveira, Andreina > Cota, Theo Rogliano, Clément Dutriez, Quentin Ducasse, Cyril Ferlicot, > Cameron Bierwagen, Marek Niepieklo, Clotilde Toullec, Esteban Lorenzano, > Vincent Blondeau, Danil Osipchuk, Eiichiro Ito, Noury Bouraqadi, Oleksandr > Zaytsev, Jason Riggs, Alain Plantec, Kasper Osterbye, Leonardo Cecchi, Chi > Huynh, Santiago Bragagnolo, Antonio Pierro, Pablo Tesone, Tim Mackinnon, > Wesley Duerksen, Wilfred Hughes, John Brant, Evelyn Cusi Lopez, Manuel > Leuenberger, Thomas Dupriez, Norbert Hartl, Torsten Bergmann, Gabriel Omar > Cotelli, Carlo Teixeira, Guille Polito, Torsten Bergman, Damien Pollet, > Holger Hans Peter Freyther, Julio Ripoll, Carolina Hernandez Phillips, > Julien Delplanque, Hugo Lasnier, James Foster, Will Hensel, Erik Stel, Sven > Van Caekenberghe, Martín Dias, Tomohiro Oda, Konrad Hinsen, Sébastien > Roccaserra, Stéphane Ducasse, Denis Kudriashov, Ellis Harris, Steven Costiou > (If you contributed with Pharo 8.0 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 <https://pharo.org/download> > > Learn Pharo: http://pharo.org/documentation > <https://pharo.org/documentation> > > > If you cannot see this, follow this link: > http://pharo.org/news/pharo8.0-released >
