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:.

• Added #allButFirst, #allButFirst:, #allButLast, #allButLast:, #atAll:, #removeAllSuchThat: to Collection.

• Added #join to SequenceableCollection.

• A race condition was fixed where a file handler was resurrected and another object inside it had already been finalized.

• Fixed bug with growing of the Undeclared dictionary.

• Fixed GC bug that could cause crashes if two GCs happened at

particularly unlucky spots.

• VariableBinding objects were made read-only when used as literals.