This is a great step to show we have a stable consistent base for the year ahead - thanks for pulling this off!
One small caveat on the 64bit angle - there are still some known outstanding bugs with 64bits - meaning that Fuel is known not to work (which might be for more specialised things - but it does mean we have to careful about how 64bits its advertised : https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20120/Fuel-is-not-64bits-ready <https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20120/Fuel-is-not-64bits-ready> https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20119/ <https://pharo.fogbugz.com/f/cases/20119/> ) Tim > On 24 Jul 2017, at 12:56, Esteban Lorenzano <esteba...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > We are releasing Pharo 6.1. > Usually, between each major version we just apply bugfixes changing the build > number and not announcing new versions but this time is different since the > fixes applied required a new VM. > The principal reason for the new version is to update Iceberg support, > bringing it to macOS 64bits version. > > So, now Pharo 6.1 comes with Iceberg 0.5.5, which includes: > > - running on macOS 64bits > - adds cherry pick > - adds major improvements on performance for big repositories > - adds pull request review plugin > - repositories browser: group branches by remote > - adds bitbucket and gitlab to recognised providers on metacello integration > - uses libgit v0.25.1 as backend > - several bugfixes > > Other important change: > > - linux vm by default is now vm threaded heartbeat. > > We still miss 64bits Windows (sorry for that), but we are getting there. I > hope to have it running right after ESUG. > > To download 6.1 version, you can go to http://pharo.org/download > <http://pharo.org/download> page, or with zeroconf: > > wget -O- get.pharo.org <http://get.pharo.org/> | bash > > Enjoy! > Esteban
