Recent Squeak packages releases

Many Squeak packages have been released in the past months. Here’s a quick list:

• Torsten Bergmann has packaged Joseph Perline’s Toothpick logging framework as a Monticello package and made it available on both Squeak Map and Squeaksource.
• Elod Kironsky has released SmallDEVS, a Squeak-based, lightweight implementation of the DEVS (Discrete event systems specification) formalism.
• Damien Cassou is continuing working on his Squeak-dev and Squeak-web images.
• Pavel Krivanek announced the final 3.9 release of his KernelImage minimal image.
• Lex Spoon has released the stable package universe for Squeak 3.9.
• Bryce Kampjes released version 0.10 of Exupery.
• Goran Krampe released version 0.3 of the Gjallar issue tracker.
• Brian Rice provided new looks and functionalities to the SqueakMap Package Loader.
• Keith Hodges is continuing his work on Installer, with new features every release.
• Chris Muller has released a new stable version of the Magma OODB, available on Squeak Map.
• A new version of the Chronos library by Alan Lovejoy has been published on Squeaksource.
• Stéphane Rollandin has published a new development snapshot of muO, an experimental environment for music composition.
• Masashi Umezawa has announced version 0.2 of the SIXX XML object serializer.
• David T. Lewis has published SlangBrowser, an interactive Slang code browser.

Recent VM Releases

John M. McIntosh and Andreas Raab have recently release new versions of the Mac Carbon and Windows VM.

John has bumped the Carbon VM version to 3.8.15b1. Previous releases of this VM have also provided a MacIntel browser plugin in lieu of the old PowerPC-only plugin and many other fixes, thanks to funding by Viewpoints Research, Inc. This latest release includes fixes for bugs discovered by the Scratch support team.

Andreas has released a new VM based on the latest VMMaker (3.9). This are experimental releases, and Andreas is inviting ther Win32 users to test it and report any problems. There aren’t any new features, but this new releases use the new build system that has been put in place between Squeak versions 3.7 and 3.9.