For Ubuntu users, the updated snap is also available:

sudo snap install pharo --classic --candidate

Cheers,
Alistair

P.S. Should this message be sent to pharo-users as well?


On Mon, Jul 24, 2017 at 01:56:20PM +0200, Esteban Lorenzano wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> We are releasing Pharo 6.1. 
> Usually, between each major version we just apply bugfixes changing the build
> number and not announcing new versions but this time is different since the
> fixes applied required a new VM. 
> The principal reason for the new version is to update Iceberg support, 
> bringing
> it to macOS 64bits version. 
> 
> So, now Pharo 6.1 comes with Iceberg 0.5.5, which includes: 
> 
> - running on macOS 64bits
> - adds cherry pick 
> - adds major improvements on performance for big repositories
> - adds pull request review plugin
> - repositories browser: group branches by remote
> - adds bitbucket and gitlab to recognised providers on metacello integration
> - uses libgit v0.25.1 as backend
> - several bugfixes
> 
> Other important change: 
> 
> - linux vm by default is now vm threaded heartbeat. 
> 
> We still miss 64bits Windows (sorry for that), but we are getting there. I 
> hope
> to have it running right after ESUG.
> 
> To download 6.1 version, you can go to http://pharo.org/download page, or with
> zeroconf: 
> 
> wget -O- get.pharo.org | bash
> 
> Enjoy!
> Esteban

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