[Help-smalltalk] Release-candidate for GNU Smalltalk 2.2

[Paolo Bonzini]

I have just finished uploading GNU Smalltalk 2.1h to

This release is the release candidate for GNU Smalltalk 2.2.

It includes an important bug fix for asynchronous I/O, a new and simpler 
syntax to call C functions, a port of the class browser to Gtk+ 2.4/2.6. 
The HTTP client supports the chunked encoding in HTTP/1.1, and the 
sockets library had other important bug fixes. It includes all the bug 
fixes and portability improvements in the 2.1.12 version from the stable 
branch, including support for 64-bit processors.

Thanks to Mike Anderson, Robert Collins, Michael Koehne and everybody 
else who helped with this release.  I hope that in the five years 
between 1999 and 2004 I have made GNU Smalltalk a pleasant environment 
for you to work with.  Of course I will continue to work on GNU 
Smalltalk, but unfortunately my pace is not likely to be much faster 
than it has been in the last year.  However, I am starting to see a 
(small, but growing in interest and talent) community for GNU Smalltalk, 
and a lot of the class library changes in GNU Smalltalk 2.1h would not 
have been done without users.  It's very good that this happens now that 
I have less time to hack on it.

Regards,

Paolo Bonzini