> Great news! Thanks to Esteban and the 80+ contributors.
>
> I have multiple patches waiting for the 7.0 dev cycle to begin. Can't
> wait... :-)
>
> Cheers,
> Alistair
>
>
> On 6 June 2017 at 17:11, Esteban Lorenzano <
[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Dear World,
>>
>> The time has come for Pharo 6.0!
>>
>> Pharo is a pure object-oriented programming language and a powerful
>> environment, focused on simplicity and immediate feedback.
>>
>> This is our most significant release yet. Here are some highlights:
>>
>> - Pharo is now provided in 64-bit version in Linux and OSX and brings even
>> better performance and stability (beware, 64bits version is a new technology
>> and a small amount of tests is still failing)
>> - A new code changes management system named Epicea for easier reviewing and
>> recovering of your code easily
>> - Integrated support for Git through an easy-to-use tool for repositories
>> and commits management named Iceberg (as a preview for Pharo 6, it will be
>> the default in Pharo 7)
>> - The unified foreign function interface (UnifiedFFI) for interfacing with
>> the outside world is significantly improved
>> - The PharoVM is now part of OpenSmalltalk initiative
>> - Introduction of object immutability, alternative bytecode sets and block
>> closures independent of outer context
>> - Pharo can now be bootstrapped from source code managed by Git
>> - Pharo modularity is improved
>> - Pharo is faster
>> - The Dark Theme was improved and set as default color theme of Pharo
>>
>>
>> These are just the more prominent highlights, but the details are just as
>> important. We have closed 1474 issues in Pharo 6.0 (a more complete
>> changelog can be found at
>>
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/blob/master/Pharo60ChangeLogs.md).
>>
>> While the technical improvements are significant (starting the transition to
>> 64bits is a remarkable achievement), still the most impressive fact is that
>> the new code that got in the main Pharo 6.0 image was contributed by more
>> than 80 people.
>>
>> Pharo is more than code. It is an exciting project involving energetic
>> people. We thank all the contributors of this release:
>>
>> Alberto Bacchelli, Alejandro Infante, Alexandre Bergel, Aliaksei Syrel,
>> Alistair Grant, Andrei Chis, Ben Coman, Bernardo Contreras, Bernhard Pieber,
>> Boris Spasojevic, Christophe Demarey, Clement Bera, Cyril Ferlicot, Dale
>> Henrichs, Damien Cassou, Damien Pollet, Dave Lewis, Denis Kudriashov, Dirk
>> Roeleveld, Eliot Miranda, Esteban Lorenzano, Esteban Maringolo, Evan
>> Donahue, Federico Balaguer, Franck Warlouzet, Glenn Cavarle, Guillermo
>> Polito, Gustavo Santos, Henrik Johansen, Henrik Nergaard, Hilaire Fernandes,
>> Holger Hans, Jan Kurs, Jan van de Sandt, Johan Fabry, Juraj Kubelka, K. K.
>> Subramaniam, Ken Causey, Kris Gybels, Lionel Akue, Luc Fabresse, Lucas
>> Godoy, Marcus Denker, Mariano Martinez Peck, Marion Noirbent, Martin Dias,
>> Max Leske, Maxime Roelandt, Merwan Ouddane, Matteo Bellotto, Miguel
>> Campusano, Milton Mamani, Myroslava Romaniuk, Nicolai Hess, Nicolas Cellier,
>> Nicolas Passerini, Norbert Hartl, Offray Luna, Pablo Tesone, Paul De
>> Bruicker, Pavel Krivanek, Peter Uhnak, Philippe Back, Roger Stebler, Ronie
>> Salgado, Sean DeNigris, Serge Stinckwich, Skip Lentz, Sophie Kaleba, Stefan
>> Reichhart, Stephan Eggermont, Stephane Ducasse, Sven Van Caekenberghe,
>> Thibault Arloing, Thibault Arloing, Thibault Raffaillac, Thierry Goubier,
>> Thomas Heniart, Tommaso Dal Sasso, Torsten Bergmann, Tudor Girba, Udo
>> Schneider, Valentin Ryckewaert, Vincent Blondeau, Werner Kassens, Yuriy
>> Tymchuk
>>
>> (If you contributed with Pharo 6.0 development in any way and we missed your
>> name, please send us a mail and we will add you).
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> The Pharo Team
>>
>> Try Pharo:
http://pharo.org/download>> Learn Pharo:
http://pharo.org/documentation>
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