Fwd: VAST (VA Smalltalk) Version 9.2 Now Available!

What's New in VAST 9.2?

• 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
• 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
  • Updated look-and-feel of the Windows application icon, Environments banner, and splash screens
• 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:
  • 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 on Github)

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