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:.