GNU Smalltalk 3.0b will shortly be available from

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0b.tar.gz

Like GNU Smalltalk 3.0a, this release of GNU Smalltalk includes support for Seaside. It includes the following changes compared to GNU Smalltalk 3.0a:

The release can be downloaded from

    ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-2.95e.tar.gz

The new release includes the following changes:

• Fixed race conditions in Semaphores and Delays.
• Converted kernel to new syntax.
• Fixed off-by-one error in regex and support case-insensitive regex matching.
• Now breaks hard links when saving images.
• Stronger error recovery in the parser.
• Made #asRegex unnecessary for string literals used as regular expressions.
• Fixes for compilation on Intel Macs and for 64-bit cleanliness.

The release can be downloaded from

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-2.95d.tar.gz

The new release includes the following changes:

• Bugfixes from 2.3.6.
• Rewritten DBI library with support for MySQL and Postgres, contributed by Mike Anderson.
• The ZLib deflation stream was rewritten and supports partial flushing.
• Added parser written in Smalltalk for GNU Smalltalk 3.0 syntax.
• Faster package loading, does not need InfoZIP anymore except when building gst.
• Stricter argument check for #copyFrom:to: and #copyFrom:.

The release can be downloaded from

     ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-2.95c.tar.gz

This new beta includes the following features:

• Faster startup for gst-load, gst-sunit, gst-blox, gst-package

• Source code tool installed as gst-convert, supports Squeak and SIF input, filtering by class or category, rewrite rules.

• New packages DebugTools, Complex, Digest

• Bug fixes for the .star package system.

• Improved MinGW support (untested).

• Improved documentation (from Stephen Compall).

The new release is available via FTP or HTTP.

This release is almost feature complete with respect to 3.0; the only main missing piece is the conversion from the old syntax to the new one of the Smalltalk source code supplied with the distribution.

Changes include:

• Bug fixes in the new syntax parser.
• Conversion tool from old to new syntax.
• Continuations and generators have moved to the base image.
• Revamped package manager.