Pharo 2.0 - Changelog

What's new in Pharo 2.0:

March 20th, 2013

· All in all, there were over 1600 issues treated in the issue tracker
· and 1350 improvements integrated into 2.0.

What's new in Pharo 2.0 Alpha:

October 5th, 2012

· Added a layout instance variable to Behavior. To be used later
· When browsing versions of a method, an improved merge tool is used.
· RPackage, a work-in-progress replacement of PackageInfo and System Categories.
· Nautilus, a new code browser
· The standard download now includes the Refactoring Engine
· Specs: specify UIs more easily (work in progress)
· Keybindings

What's new in Pharo 1.4:

October 5th, 2012

Changes:
· New code model: Ring
· Support for startUp preference script
· class message is not a byte code anymore
· Better union and intersection methods
· Better primitive simulation
· Better headless support
· Better support for error at startup
· Introduction of FileSystem
· Less dependencies: Color, Scrollbar do not depend on Compiler anymore
· Cleaning tests
· Unload hostSystemsMenus
· More consistent API for browser opening
· No event pulling anymore
· More class comments
· Announcement driven system notification
· Better API for sharedPool

Zinc Improvement:
· New mechanism for Zinc servers start/stop handling after system startUp/shutDown
· and a lot a lot and a lot more.

Tools:
· Support Cherrypicking when merging
· Better timeProfilerBrowser
· Better MC commit error
· MC handles better dependencies
· Better Debugger
· Better Inspector
· Search in tools
· New Finder tool
· Cmd-Click for senders and implementors
· Senders and implementors deals with class
· Better tool registry
· Improvements for the FlatBrowser
· Better Transcripter
· Faster diffBuilder
· New version of OCompletion and Ecompletion that can play together and without code duplication.

UI:
· Better search
· MultiSelection improvements
· Drag and drop in multi selection list
· PluggableListMorph improvements
· PluggableListMorph selection on drag
· Iconic Button improvements
· PharoTheme
· Better CheckBox
· Enhanced PluggableButtonMorph
· Polymorph enhancements
· Deprecate PluggableListMorphOfMany
· Merged NewParagraph and MultiNewParagraph
· New Widget: Ticking list and widget
· LazyListMorph cleaning
· NewTextMorph and TextComposer improvements
· Improve behavior of MorphTreeMorph
· Removing NewTextMorph and related
· StringMorph

Cleaning:
· Object
· Old HTTP code
· No references to Utilities
· Removed toolbuilder
· Restructure packages
· Canvas hierarchy
· MorphicModel
· Deprecate recentMessageSet
· Deprecate ImageSegment
· Deprecate MessageNames
· Deprecate TimeProfileBrowser
· Really cleaning messageSet and subclasses
· SystemChangeNotifier
· Removed Project
· Removed BlockContext, blue book old closure encodings
· Font downloading
· HandMorph

Some Fixes:
· Set growth with nil
· Better weak finalization
· isPrime fixed
· Compiler Fixes
· Russian characters in editor
· More class comments
· Fix drawing shadow morphs
· Trait support
· Fixed syntax hilighting
Better pointersTo:
· Speedup MethodDictionary #rehash
· Compiler enhancements.
· Stream should not print its contents
· Progress bar
· InputSensor
· CombinedChar
· BytexTextConverter fixes