# Pharo News of the Week 51/2024
- [ANN] pharox-dependency-visualizer: This tool helps understand/untangle
dependencies
https://github.com/ironirc/pharox-dependency-visualizer
- [ANN] A Pharo/Bloc port of the example code from The Nature of Code book by
Daniel Shiffman
https://github.com/lucretiomsp/nature-of-code-pharo
- [ANN] Pharo UFFI binding with the rtmidi library
https://github.com/ironirc/pharo-rtmidi
- [ANN] Poster from Audio Developer Conference 2024: "Phausto: fast and
accessible DSP programming in Pharo"
https://hal.science/hal-04813572v1/file/ADC2024-poster.pdf
The weekly newsletter takes a break for the rest of the year.
We wish already a happy new year and will be back in the second week of
January.!
# The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker
# Pharo 12
- Fix compiler literals p12 #17532
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17532
# VM
- Fixes for 10.3.2 #885
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/885
- Enhancement(versionning): Extract full semantic version from git #884
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/884
# Features
- Breakpoints in debugger #920
https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/920
- Sorting items in bag inspector by default #915
https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/915
- Using the dedicated pointers to image #1647
https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1647
# Fixes
- Fix: #17531: We can use string instead of symbols in slot in class definition
#17531 #17537
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17537
- fix-SDL-default-renderer-by-platform #17517
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17517
# Refactoring Engine
- Fix RBClassRegexRefactoring #17552
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17552
- rename asMethodPreamble (dated concept) to asMethodSignature #17547
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17547
- fix #17543: [RB] Comment on RBClassRegexRefactoring and superclass is wrong
#17545
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17545
- Cleaning ReDriver #17541
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17541
- Fixing the rename from call site. #17536
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17536
# Compiler
- Fix: #17524 MOve OCASTSemanticCleaner to its only user: Reflectivity #17546
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17546
- improve comment of private method scanToken #17539
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17539
- Deprecate IRFix #17538
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17538
- Improving opal comment4 #17530
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17530
- Better comment in opal #17526
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17526
- Deprecate RBParser and RBPatternParser. #17514
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17514
# Comments
- Better class comment for commentTestCase #17540
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17540
