This week (13/2021) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

We merged 32 Pull Requests and closed 24 issues on the main repository.
But some PRs combine multiple fixes and commits, thus the real number is far higher.


Merge NewTools 0.6 #8876
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- This version introduces new Spotter tool!
- uses style contributor (thanks @tesonep) to add styles for each tool (using it in spotter)
- fixes cmd+p, and cmd+i, etc on playground.
- fixes pharo-spec/NewTools#171
- fixes #8765
- fixes pharo-spec/NewTools#161
- fixes pharo-spec/NewTools#176
- several debugger fixes
- cleanups
- https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/releases/tag/v0.6


Merge newtools 0.6.1 #8922
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- fixes #5551
- fixes pharo-spec/NewTools#189
- fixes pharo-spec/NewTools#197
- fixes pharo-spec/NewTools#192
- fixes pharo-spec/NewTools#205
- spotter: showing of tips configurable
- spotter: several small bug fixes/enhancements
- inspector: Avoid errors when printing in title
- https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/releases/tag/v0.6.1

Spec 0.8.6
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- add cursorPositionIndex: to input fields
- add beEditable property to input fields
- https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/releases/tag/v0.8.6

Spec2 0.8.7
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- fixes SpFilteringSelectableListPresenter>>selectItems:
- fix missing style apply for just-built layouts
- https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/releases/tag/v0.8.7


Refactoring Engine
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- RB - Improve extract setUp Refactoring #8877
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8877

- RB - Add preview when use "extract method refactoring" #8898
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8898
       
- RB - Replace method's senders by another #8903
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8903
       
- RB - Improve Extract Method Refactoring #8924
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8924

Improved Rules
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- ReVariableReferencedOnceRule-show-varname #8874
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8874
       
- ReVariableAssignedLiteralRule-Skip-PoolVars #8882
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8882

- 8009-Rule-required-for-shadowed-variables #8917
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8917

First Class Variables
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- Variable-model-Shadowing #8909
        https://blog.marcusdenker.de/modeling-variable-shadowing
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8909

- add SystemDictionary>>#resetReservedVariables #8907
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8907

- Speedup-reflective-read-IndexedSlot #8928
        https://blog.marcusdenker.de/first-class-variables-speeding-up-reflective-variable-access-of-indexed-variables
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8928


Features
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- Add CairoLibrary>>versionString #8880
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8880

- Add SDL2 class >> version #8912
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8912

- add isDoubleQuote method #8896
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8896

- 8194-Enhance-Welcome-with-Build-Date #8919
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8919
       
- Added RewriteRuleEditor to world menu #8902
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8902

Fixes
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- Use LibraryFinder in CairoLibrary>>macLibraryName #8879
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8879

- 8793-some-settings-for-code-completion-are-not-working #8885
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8885
       
- Rolling back to the old morphic behavior (but in OUPS) when opening debuggers #8893
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8893
       
- [fix] fixes #8878: Fluid class and more got broken by recent calypso... #8884
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8884
       
- taskbarCloseAllLikeThis closes windows with the same name #8914
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8914
       
- 8525-Errors--Insufficient-buffer-size-to-read-current-working-directory-at-the-launch-of
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8911
       
- [Redo #8894] Introduce bestNodeForAtPosition: by moving selector extractor heuristic. #8905
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8905
       
- 8793-some-settings-for-code-completion-are-not-working Part 2 #8895
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8895

Cleanups
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- 8921 gtDisplayString should be deprecated and use displayString #8923
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8923

- 8814-Is-registerBreakableIndex-still-needed #8920
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8920
       
- testNoUnusedInstanceVariablesLeft-down-to-19 #8915
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8915
       
Comments
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- fixes #8904 Better class comment for some SUnit classes #8913
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8913
       
- 6970-win32ModuleName-not-implemented #8842
        https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/8842