GNU Smalltalk 3.0.3 will shortly be available from

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.3.tar.gz

This is a maintenance release with the following changes:

• File>>#withReadStreamDo: and File>>#withWriteStreamDo: now return the result of evaluating their argument, instead of returning the File object.

• Fixed command-line option -S to actually work.

• Fixed GC bugs in SQLite bindings. Also, the bindings could sometimes call sqlite3_finalize twice.

• Fixed rare finalization bug.

• Fixes to the JIT compiler.

• Generational GC is now disabled on Alpha.

• More fixes for MinGW.

• New command-line option -i (--rebuild-image) for gst-load.

• New methods:

   Number>>#asCNumber
   String>>allOccurrencesOfRegex:do:
   String>>allOccurrencesOfRegex:from:to:do:
   TCP.AbstractSocket>>#canRead
   TCP.AbstractSocket>>#canWrite
   TCP.AbstractSocket>>#ensureReadable
   TCP.AbstractSocket>>#ensureWriteable

• The callback for the #returnFromSnapshot event is executed as a high-priority process. While relatively invasive, this change was needed to fix crashes when reloading images that used C bindings extensively.

• A system-installed libffi can be used. The included libffi has been upgraded to version 3.0.4.

• URLs can be passed to FileDescriptor class>>#open:mode:ifFail:.

Thanks to everyone who reported bugs and/or provided fixes that went
into this release, including Stephen Compall, Thomas Girard, Tim Kack,
Cesar Rabak.