The first release candidate for GNU Smalltalk 3.0 can be downloaded from

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

The new release includes the following changes:

• fixes in the regex matcher handling of options m and s
• fixes in Unicode handling; the example JSON parser now handles Unicode input correctly
• up-to-date checks for the image use nanosecond resolution
• the browser is now working with the new syntax
• the known bugs in method recompilation and class mutation in 2.95a to 2.95e have been fixed
• flushing a socket tries to push data all the way down to the network
• Promise objects save any exception generated in the child process and forward it to the process that calls #value
• the error code is 1 if the user tries to load a nonexistent file
• the XML package has been split into five smaller packages (XML-SAXDriver, XML-DOM, XML-SAXParser, XML-NodeBuilder and XML-XMLParser).