Great work and many thanks to all that supported!! Norbert
> Am 20.01.2020 um 19:01 schrieb ducasse <steph...@netcourrier.com>: > > I would like to also thanks all the consortium members and the association > members so their continuous > support. In addition we would like to thank SchmidtPro and Lifeware for the > contracts we sign to improve Pharo. > Pharo 80 and Pharo 90 will strongly benefit from this effort. > > S. > >> On 20 Jan 2020, at 14:23, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com >> <mailto: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>
