GNU Smalltalk 3.0.2 will shortly be available from

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.2.tar.gz

This is a maintenance release with the following changes:

• Fixed bugs in floating-point I/O

• Fixed bugs in comparisons between ScaledDecimals and Integers.

• Fixes for MinGW

• Fixes to the Emacs modes.

• Improved GNUPlot bindings (support for histograms).

• Improved SqueakParser

• Number>>#readFrom: will return floating-point numbers, not fractions.

• New methods:

   AbstractSocket>>#isPeerAlive
   CharacterArray>>#endsWith:

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.1 can now be downloaded at the following URLs

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.1.tar.gz
   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.1.tar.gz

The following is a list of fixes. Thanks to everyone who reported the bugs:

• `gst-package --list-files' emits file paths relative from the current directory. The --destdir and -t options are rejected. --list-files supports options --load and --test.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0 has been released at

   ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk

The release was tested on the following systems:

• i686-pc-linux-gnu
• x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
• powerpc-apple-darwin8.9.0
• powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu
• sparc-unknown-linux-gnu
• ia64-hp-linux-gnu
• s390-ibm-linux-gnu
• hppa-hp-linux-gnu

Thanks to Stephen Compall, Thomas Girard, Robin Redeker for help and testing of this release!

News from 2.3.6 to 3.0

(Changes from the last release candidate, 2.95h, are listed later.)

Important changes:

The release can be downloaded from

ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-2.3.6.tar.gz

The new release includes the following changes in addition to many minor bug fixes:

• Added symbolic link creation to File.

• Pipe FileStreams use OS pipes or socketpairs instead of a pseudo-tty.

• Fixed bitrot in the debugger.

• Fixed bug where ~= was computed incorrectly as = (e.g. 3 ~= 3.0e).

• Fixes to File and Directory for Windows.

• Fixes to MIME message parsing, UTF-7 encoding and XPath.

• Added #% as a shortcut for CharacterArray>>#bindWithArguments:.