There was an interesting thread on reddit about how glibc releases are managed. Well, interesting except for calling names at the glibc maintainer, so you have to filter out that to get the real message.

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: