GNU Smalltalk 3.0.4 will shortly be available from

    ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/smalltalk/smalltalk-3.0.4.tar.gz

This is a bug fix release with the following changes:

• A few operations on collections have been sped up.

• Code without a space between a binary minus and a number, such as "a-2", is parsed correctly. As a side effect of this change, the sign of a number with an explicit radix (such as "16r10") can be placed before the radix too: both -16r10 and 16r-10 are accepted.

• Fixed bug that caused some children not to be reaped.

• Fixed bug when reading from a FIFO file and the writing side closed the FIFO before GNU Smalltalk started reading it.

• Fixed CByte to actually work.

• Fixed corner case of nested exception handlers.

• Fixed directory navigation on ZIP archives (when using the VFSAddOns package).

• Fixed HTTP GETs that caused a redirect and had a query.

• Fixed leakage of file descriptors on ZIP archives (when *not* using the VFSAddOns package).

• Fixed MappedCollection>>#keysDo:.

• Fixed rare bug in the bytecode optimizer that caused invalid (non-verifiable) or even incorrect bytecode to be generated.

• Fixed Stream>>#do: and Stream>>#linesDo:, which would terminate in advance if *another* stream was read past its end during the argument block's execution.

• Fixed the tools to work on Windows even if invoked with an explicit extension for the executable.

• gst-convert is now really quiet if invoked with --quiet.

• Moved SequenceableCollection>>#join to Collection.

• Removed bashisms from installed shell scripts.

• Sockets use the close-on-exec option (see fcntl(2) for more information).

• Sport fixes: fixed SpFilename>>#fail (did not work) and SpSocket>>#readInto:startingAt:for: (should only do one I/O operation, possibly returning a partially filled buffer).

• UNC paths are parsed correctly by File.