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:) > On 20 Jan 2020, at 14:23, 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 > <http://pharo.org/news/pharo8.0-released>
