Hello Pharo users and developers,
You may have noticed that our usual April–May release did not happen
this yea.
We wanted to explain why Pharo 14 has been delayed, and why we are still
not quite at the point where we want to release it.
There is not much mystery: we got very ambitious about what we wanted to
include. We are still finishing a few important pieces that we believe
need to be part of this release, as they will provide foundations for
the next development cycle.
Here is a non-exhaustive list of what we are aiming to include:
* Massive changes in the VM (v12)
* Migration to SDL3 as the backend
* Alexandria, as a future replacement for Athens
* A Bloc preview — yes!
* Toplo, the new widget set based on Bloc, and a Spec–Toplo preview
* And many other things that are not polished enough yet
So, yes, we are disappointed not to have met our usual release cycle.
But we believe the extra time will be worth it — once we get there :)
Cheers,
Esteban
