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> 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>
