Squeak 3.7 released!

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　 8 ヶ月振りで 3.7 正式版 (full) リリース．クラス数は 2287， image 15MB， changes 20MB になってる． condenseChanges すると 12MB になるけど．以下 "What's New in 3.7" より．

• Version 2 of SqueakMap, a major upgrade which supports multiple releases for packages, user accounts and much more.
• Babel, a framework for supporting language translations in the UI. (e.g. French, Swedish, etc.)
• SmaCC, the Smalltalk Compiler Compiler deployment runtime from John Brant. The SmaCC development tool lets you define a parser/compiler.
• Some packages removed and placed on SqueakMap, including the XML parser and IRC.
• The Accufonts bitmap font set. This means the original Apple NewYork font has been removed, to help clean up the Squeak-L licensing issue regarding fonts.
• BitstreamVeraFonts, a set of free TrueType/antialiased fonts.
• Chronology package. This contains ANSI DateTime, refactored Date and Time classes.
• The remaining ANSI compatibility methods. Squeak now includes all of the major ANSI compatibility changes.
• A Change Notification framework from the KCP team at Berne. This sends consistent notification messages when code changes happen in the system.
• Latest updates from the SqueakLand/Etoys world.
• An enhanced look and feel including menu icons, gradient scrollbars and window titlebar buttons, etc.
• Horizontal scrollbars now supported in all scrollable text/list panes, and very large lists are now supported with LargeLists.
• Class comments immediately visible in Browsers when a new class is viewed.
• Enhancement packages incorporated from SqueakMap: NamedProcess, ShrinkingSelection/ParenBlinking, BreakpointSupport, LargeLists.
• Support for animated GIFs and saving PNG files.
• Support for compressed source files.
• New class Matrix which replaces Array2D.
• The usual numerous small enhancements and fixes.

• 起動直後．

• "A Gentle Introduction to Smalltalk" by Stéphane Ducasse & Serge Stinckwich. Bookmorph で書かれた Smalltalk 初級編．

• Tool for building a VM codebase from the in-image and on-file code.

• SUnit の TestRunner. だけど，いちいちブラウザ開かなくてもソースが見られて編集可能な 南谷くん の TestBrowser for Squeak - Jp の方が佳さ気．

• Loader for Squeak code package metacatalog - a catalog of all available Squeak packages.

• CVS like versioning Tool.