Hi, I'm trying to summarize the changelog for Pharo 7 (based on about 2500 merged PRs, not counting standalone commits to Iceberg and Calypso). If something more should be mentioned, please let me know.
Revolutionary kernel changes - bootstrap - modular stateful traits - traits flattening in kernel packages - new sources file for every bootstrapped version, empty changes - new class builder - binary packages loading (Hermes) Infrastructure changes - switch to GitHub - Tonel code format - update building infrastructure to Jenkins 2 Code management - Calypso, the new system browser - new navigation model - faster UI - tabs toolbar instead of single source code panel - explicit commands instead of duplicated menu and shortcuts - extendable by plugins - suitable for the remote scenario - "dynamic protocols", support multiple tags per method - not required star convention for class extension - support multiple tags per class - visibility option for inherited methods - methods inherited from traits are not shown by default - variable view as the special mode for method group view. - better keyboard navigation - and many more Iceberg - a new friendly user interface - simplification of solving problems with repositories - workflow simplification - better GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab support - improved code merging and comparisons - new code serialization format (Tonel) - repositories metadata - documentation - better error handling, tags support - improved Iceberg-Metacello integration - credentials store Cleanups - remove Nautilus - remove UpdateStream - remove all Configurations - remove ShoreLine-Report - remove TxText - remove PluggableTabBarMorph - remove the old Compiler - remove Watery theme - remove Versionner - remove Komitter - remove LegacyWeakSubscription - continue on deprecation of FileStream - dead code cleanups - code organization cleanups - unify categorization of common methods - cleanups of object inspection protocol - start with Ring deprecation - better structure of packages - package comments Updates - Zinc - Epicea - FFI - Metacello - Fuel New - Calypso - integrate WebBrowser - integrate ReferenceFinder - Hermes - Refactoring 2 - Commander - ClassAnnotation Spec - ComposableModel renamed to ComposablePresenter - new calendar presenter - Spec-Demo - improve Spec linking to domain models Look & Feel - use the white theme by default - improve themes switching - main menu bar - new window management shortcuts - better support of fallback bitmap fonts - improved Inspector refreshing - Spotter is looking for opened windows - display scale factor - FastTable improvements VM interface - DoubleWord and DoubleByte arrays - add EncoderForSistaV1 - read-only literals support - improvements and fixes for 64-bit support - fixes for FullBlockClosure - support of the new bytecode set Reflectivity - breakpoints improvements - test coverage using metalinks - reflectivity and metalinks improvements Other - startup running in a fresh process - better pin messages - NewValueHolder and Model API unification - better working and image directories meaning separation - SortFunctions composable - better OSWindow support - convert rules to the Renraku architecture - class and method comments improvements - extensible Playground (pageActionOrder:) - optional password management for command line handlers - system dependencies tests - unify way to obtain package manifests
