Re: [Pharo-dev] [ANN] Pharo 6.1 (summer) released!

> On Jul 24, 2017, at 1:56 PM, Esteban Lorenzano <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are releasing Pharo 6.1.
> Usually, between each major version we just apply bugfixes changing the build number and not announcing new versions but this time is different since the fixes applied required a new VM.
> The principal reason for the new version is to update Iceberg support, bringing it to macOS 64bits version.
>
> So, now Pharo 6.1 comes with Iceberg 0.5.5, which includes:
>
> - running on macOS 64bits
> - adds cherry pick
> - adds major improvements on performance for big repositories
> - adds pull request review plugin
> - repositories browser: group branches by remote
> - adds bitbucket and gitlab to recognised providers on metacello integration
> - uses libgit v0.25.1 as backend
> - several bugfixes
>
> Other important change:
>
> - linux vm by default is now vm threaded heartbeat.
>
> We still miss 64bits Windows (sorry for that), but we are getting there. I hope to have it running right after ESUG.
>
> To download 6.1 version, you can go to http://pharo.org/download page, or with zeroconf:
>
> wget -O- get.pharo.org | bash
>
> Enjoy!
> Esteban

> On 24 Jul 2017, at 13:56, Esteban Lorenzano <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are releasing Pharo 6.1.
> Usually, between each major version we just apply bugfixes changing the build number and not announcing new versions but this time is different since the fixes applied required a new VM.
> The principal reason for the new version is to update Iceberg support, bringing it to macOS 64bits version.
>
> So, now Pharo 6.1 comes with Iceberg 0.5.5, which includes:
>
> - running on macOS 64bits
> - adds cherry pick
> - adds major improvements on performance for big repositories
> - adds pull request review plugin
> - repositories browser: group branches by remote
> - adds bitbucket and gitlab to recognised providers on metacello integration
> - uses libgit v0.25.1 as backend
> - several bugfixes
>
> Other important change:
>
> - linux vm by default is now vm threaded heartbeat.
>
> We still miss 64bits Windows (sorry for that), but we are getting there. I hope to have it running right after ESUG.
>
> To download 6.1 version, you can go to http://pharo.org/download page, or with zeroconf:
>
> wget -O- get.pharo.org | bash
>
> Enjoy!
> Esteban