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Fixes were made in the regex matcher handling of
options //m and //s, in Unicode handling, in the
browser's handling of new 3.0 syntax, method
recompilation, and class manipulation. The example
JSON parser now handles Unicode input correctly.
Up-to-date checks for the image now use nanosecond
resolution. The XML package has been split into
five smaller parts. Flushing a socket tries to
push data all the way down to the network. The
exit code is now 1 if the user tries to load a
nonexistent file from the command line, and the
error message is clearer.
Race conditions in Semaphores and Delays were
fixed. The kernel was converted to the new syntax.
An off-by-one error in regex was fixed and case
insensitive regex matching is supported. Hard
links are now broken when saving images. Error
recovery in the parser was made stronger. #asRegex
was made unnecessary for string literals used as
regular expressions. Fixes were made for
compilation on Intel Macs and for 64-bit
cleanliness. Automatically generated documentation
is provided for the Complex, DBI, DebugTools, and
ZLib packages. Garbage collection of Iconv
instances was fixed. Abrupt termination of
Smalltalk processes is avoided.
The documentation generator used during the build is also installed as gst-doc. Late binding of variable names allows a single Eval to load an external file and refer to a class defined in that file. A new Sport package has been added. SUnit test suites can access variables defined on the command line to gst-sunit. The ZLib deflation stream was rewritten, and supports partial flushing. A parser written in Smalltalk for GNU Smalltalk 3.0 syntax has been added. Package loading is faster, and no longer needs InfoZIP after compilation. The DBI library has been rewritten with support for MySQL and PostgreSQL. Bugfixes in 2.3.6 are included.
This release introduces many bugfixes, most of them backported from the development versions. It also introduces methods to create symbolic links, a % method acting as a shortcut for formatted printing, and several collection methods mutuated from other Smalltalk implementations or scripting languages. This version also runs under Windows.
This release adds faster startup for gst-load,
gst-sunit, and
gst-package. A source code conversion tool has
been installed as
gst-convert; it supports Squeak and SIF input,
filtering by class or
category, and rewrite rules. The new packages are
DebugTools, Complex,
Digest. Bugfixes have been made for the .star
package system. MinGW
support and the documentation have been improved.
