[Ann] 9.2 ECAP 3 Release-Candidate available for download!

Thanks all for the kind words...we’re certainly looking forward to delivering it.

@Leonardo

This is a good idea.

Yes, I will make it so.

Thanks!

On Mon, Nov 11, 2019 at 9:32 AM Leonardo Oillataguerre <[hidden email]> wrote:

Awesome release. Good work and congratulations the whole team.

We are going to migrate some proyects to 9.2 ecap3. Could be posibble to get any future changes between this ecap and final release ? May be a changelog ?

Thanks
 

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Hello All,

<a href="https://www.instantiations.com/ecap/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.instantiations.com%2Fecap%2F\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNH3R9rne3hoK5or_IjB3SUasdkOmw&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.instantiations.com%2Fecap%2F\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNH3R9rne3hoK5or_IjB3SUasdkOmw&#39;;return true;">Instantiations Early Customer Access Program (ECAP).

Instantiations will be releasing 9.2 very soon.

We wanted to give all of our customers a chance to view the release-candidate before we do so.

If no major issues are reported, then ECAP 3 (downloadable from the link above) will be what you

should expect to see for the release.

Incorporated in ECAP 3 is a set of @300 enhancements and fixes to the product.

There is a _CHANGELOG.txt that you can always refer to for a list of changes in the downloaded ECAP directory.
However, I usually like to highlight some of the changes here for all to see what we have been doing.

What's New in V9.2

Major performance increase with all new Just-In-Time Compiler for 32 & 64-bit virtual machines!

Platform:

• AArch64 joins the ARM family lineup
• Major FFI Performance Increases
• Support for returning struct-by-value in FFI
• Transitioned to latest Clang compiler for Windows
• Updated LLVM Code Generator
• Walkback generator provides more useful information and pluggability
• Updated Virtual Machine C-Interface (samples/include and samples/lib)

Base Libraries:

• CSV Support
• STON Support
• Many APIs added for dialect Portability

Graphics:

• Full HiDPI support on Windows
• Scintilla Editor fonts use DirectWrite (GPU-Accelerated rendering) by default
• 20x speedup in PNG reading
• PNG Interlaced Frame Handling Support

Unicode:

• Kernel-level EsCodePageUtilities with enhanced Unicode conversion
• Seaside Unicode updates
• Grease UTF-8 Enhancements
• Iconv updates for Unix
• Zip Streams UTF-8 support for file names and comments

Compression:

• Brotli Compression Streams
• ZStandard Compression Streams

Communications:

• New IMAP Client
• New SMTP Client
• SASL Authentication Framework
• Mail examples
• SstHttpClient support for HTTP requests (PUT, DELETE...)
• Absolute/Relative Redirect support for SstHttpClient
• SNI support for SstHttpClient
• Seaside Improvements

Security:

• LibreSSL Compatibility
• Probabilistic Signature Schemes (RSA-PSS)
• Server Name Indication support

Databases:

• Native PostgreSQL Driver
• PostgreSQL Database Abstraction Layer Integration
• Glorp Updates

Development Tools:

• Cross-Development Enhancements (XD)
• SstDebugger now supports reading .sdf files
• MonticelloImporter loading enhancements
• SUnit Enhancements

EMSRV:

• Improvements to PAM Authentication

Deployment:

• Dynamic Packaging rules using static code analysis for warning reduction
• Significant reduction of packaging warnings on shipped apps
• Seaside packaging works out-of-the-box

VAST Environments Launcher:

• Copy Installations to new location
• Move Environments to a new location
• Default Editor/File Explorer identifier for Linux

Documentation:

• Seaside Headless Packaging Examples in Server Guide
• Stack Dumping and Remote Debugging with Seaside documentation
• Updated Migration Guide

Research/Development and Open Source Projects:

• As of 9.2, A formal Github presence for Instantiations: <a href="https://github.com/vasmalltalk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:small" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvasmalltalk\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNEjkE420gojVcXDrJN7mTllswUuUg&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fvasmalltalk\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNEjkE420gojVcXDrJN7mTllswUuUg&#39;;return true;">https://github.com/vasmalltalk
• TensorFlow Machine Learning for VAST (tensorflow-vast on Github)
• Git support for VAST with Tonel interchange (tonel-vast on Github)
• Git/Tonel examples (tonel-demos on Github)
• Docker examples (docker-examples on Github)
• Pigpio bindings for VAST (pigpio-vast on Github)
• Pharo to VAST porting tool (pharo2va on Github)
• Eclipse MQTT Paho Client for VAST (paho-mqtt-vast) <-- The project also serves as an example of how to write user-prims

On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 5:06 PM Louis Andriese <<a href="javascript:" target="_blank" gdf-obfuscated-mailto="mTdTJ9oSBwAJ" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;javascript:&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;javascript:&#39;;return true;">land...@...> wrote:

Hi,

it might be me being a bit daft on a sunday night, but I can't seem to find the raspberryPi-directory in the ECAP3-download (Vast92Ecap3_Linux). 

As per _USAGE.txt and per Mariano's excellent blog (<a href="https://marianopeck.blog/2019/06/05/getting-started-with-vasmalltalk-raspberry-pi-and-other-devices/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fmarianopeck.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F05%2Fgetting-started-with-vasmalltalk-raspberry-pi-and-other-devices%2F\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNE5JiMk2dJ0xwour9x7mRS6aYuKVw&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fmarianopeck.blog%2F2019%2F06%2F05%2Fgetting-started-with-vasmalltalk-raspberry-pi-and-other-devices%2F\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNE5JiMk2dJ0xwour9x7mRS6aYuKVw&#39;;return true;">https://marianopeck.blog/2019/06/05/getting-started-with-vasmalltalk-raspberry-pi-and-other-devices/) it shoud be in the download.

Any pointers?

Hi Louis,

Sorry about the delay, we were extremely busy at Smalltalks conference as well as preparing the release. 

Thanks for the nice words about the blog. I am glad you like it and please don't hesitate to ask anything!

You are correct, there is no Raspberry/ARM built in that Release Candidate. That's because we had the time to only focus on the "official" platforms (ARM is not yet official but we hope to make it in 9.3). ARM and ARM64 VM compilation is still a manual process and not yet hook up in our build. 

We will do an ECAP shortly after 9.2 is released with /raspberryPi and maybe even with /raspberryPi64 (for ARM64 devices). 

In the meanwhile, what I suggest is to use ECAP2 that DID have /raspberryPi: <a href="https://www.instantiations.com/downloads/vast-license/92Ecap/Vast92Ecap2_Linux.tar.gz" target="_blank" rel="nofollow" onmousedown="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.instantiations.com%2Fdownloads%2Fvast-license%2F92Ecap%2FVast92Ecap2_Linux.tar.gz\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNEsSb9DRD1zRh8dtXbE4fKGf1LPMw&#39;;return true;" onclick="this.href=&#39;https://www.google.com/url?q\x3dhttps%3A%2F%2Fwww.instantiations.com%2Fdownloads%2Fvast-license%2F92Ecap%2FVast92Ecap2_Linux.tar.gz\x26sa\x3dD\x26sntz\x3d1\x26usg\x3dAFQjCNEsSb9DRD1zRh8dtXbE4fKGf1LPMw&#39;;return true;">https://www.instantiations.com/downloads/vast-license/92Ecap/Vast92Ecap2_Linux.tar.gz

Let me know if that helps,

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On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 3:15 PM Wayne Johnston <[hidden email]> wrote:

Is the official 9.2 ending up equivalent to ECAP 3?  Besides the build [455], are the Windows .dll / .exe files unchanged (not rebuilt)?

No. We had a couple of new builds in the middle (between 445 and now) as well as a VM fix. 

But ...as Seth stated, we will try to list all changes since ECAP3 to golden release once the latter is out of the door. 

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