This week (08/2021) on the Issue Tracker

Merge NewTools 0.5.2 #8589
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- VersionBrowser: fix DNU when browsing source code.
- ExternalBrowser: Migrated (not activated yet)
- Inspector: now it can inspect ProtoObjects
- Inspector: add several object inspections (text, blocks)
- Debugger: add segment selections to highlight position
- Debugger: several bug fixes
- a lot of small bugfixes
- https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/releases/tag/v0.5.2


Spec 0.8.3:
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- add limited support for drag&drop (drop just to tables/lists, for the moment)
- fixes a problem of sizing lists/trees within paned layouts.
- fixes a problem on default SpIconProvider, which should answer a broken icon instead throwing an error if icon is not there
- fixes selected icons in trees and sorted columns
- minor bugfixes
- https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/releases/tag/v0.8.3


upgrading Pharo 9 with Roassal 0.9.6
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- https://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3/releases/tag/v0.9.6


Refactoring Browser enhancements
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RB - Improve convert temporary to instance variable refactoring #8609
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8609
       
RB - Improve some warning messages #8598
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8598
       
RB - Rename method only in specific packages #8597
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8597
       
RB - Improve extract set up method refactoring #8596
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8596
       
RB - Refactor methods to use Factory class instead of RB*Change classes directly #8619
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8619


Features
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- Icon for abstract classes #8618
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8618
       

Fixes/Cleaning
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- fix column width calculous #8628
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8628

- Rule for setUp and tearDown should be applied for TestResource too #8616
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8616

- improve browse history when a method belongs to multiple packages #8633
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8633
       
- 8564-Running-tests-from-the-command-line-does-not-execute-parametrized-cases #8565
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8565
       
- Fix #8621: Improve the help of the new spec-based inspector #8622
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8622
       
- Inconsistent casing in Debug menu item #8637
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8637
       
- 6438-TextEditorpluggableYellowButtonActivity-call-dead-code #8626
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8626
       
       

Cleanups unused variables
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- testNoUnusedClassVariablesLeft-improve #8624
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8624

- Cleanup-unused-classvars-WindowsStore #8603
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8603
       
- 8613-Unused-class-Variable-in-ZnConstants #8620
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8620
       
- cleanup-unused-ClassVar-ISO88597TextConverter #8611
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8611
       
- Fix-unused-classvars-CDClassWithFullDefinitionExample #8607
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8607
       
- Cleanup-unused-ivar-RBItemsSelectionPresenter #8605
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8605
       
- Cleanup-unused-classvars-Locale #8604
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8604
       
- Cleanup-unused-classVar-FFIStringCalloutTest #8590
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8590
       
- Unused-ClassVar-CleanUp-Deprecated #8591
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8591
       
- Cleanup-unused-classvars-FTSizeRec #8601
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8601