Hello World !

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Welcome to the 5.x ST/X release.

Please refer to the online documentation for detailed release notes.

Whats new in 5.3 ?

    can generate self-installing deployable packages (null-soft instller packages)

    can generate makefiles from windows systems

    new shared class library naming scheme

    new external library function binding mechanism

    glorp updated

    FCGI support for webServer

    ODBC support improved (threaded, nonBlocking API for Win32)

    SharedPool support added.

    MenuEditor: added menuSlices.

    Browser: some refactorings on SHIFT-code-menu; better project support;

	     build features, more project support

    Editor: sort

    VM: dynamic library loading bug fixed; jitted-literal bug fixed

    Notebook/TabView: destroy tab feature added

    Documentation updates

    Win32:

	Fixes for dual screen operation

	Button event & focus handling fixes; better winXP look;

	Bug fixes in the socket, externalStream and hostname handling

	Bug fixes in the API-call cleanup code & interrupt handling

	(cleanup when interrupting and/or aborting threaded API calls)

	Preliminary, experimental support for native widgets (for now: only scrollbar)

	5.2.6 was the first "non-beta" win32 release.

Whats new in 5.2 ?

    General Unicode font support.

    xpSwiki ported.

    FileBrowser improved (is now almost a usable unicode editor !)

Whats new in 5.1.6 ?

    Bug fixes in the windows version (API-wraps, exceptions etc.)

    HTML-tree and HTTPService presenter (for flexible response-layout)

    Font handling: FontPanel fixes; better unicode handling.

    File-I/O: fixes for 32bit API (seek, stat etc.) to handle full 32bit

    positions; added 64bit API (huge file support)

Whats new in 5.1.5 ?

    Bug fixes in the windows version (API-wraps, exceptions etc.)

    HTTPServer/HTTPService framework improvements.

Whats new in 5.1.4 ?

    Better performance and restructured code in the HTTPServer/HTTPService framework.

Whats new in 5.1.2 ?

    NewSystemBrowser and NewFileBrowsers are now the default.

    added more features (code search) to the NewSystemBrowser.

    SIXX (Smalltalk Instance exchange via XML) added.

    Some bug fixes.

Whats new in 5.1.1 ?

    Removed unused instance variables from Class (therefore a major version step).

    Stream positioning is now 0-based.

    File open errors now raise an error instead of raising a notification and returning nil.

    Many HTTPServer improvements.

Whats new in 4.1.9 ?

    Better HTTPServer administration.

    XML-Xpath and XSL support

    Comanche STT added (Smalltalk Templates)

Whats new in 4.1.8 ?

    HTTPServer refactored for much easier pluggability

    SOAP demos & examples

	try the translation service

	(in the workspace or via the Launchers Demos-BabelFish menu item.)

    Comanche Swiki ported from Squeak

	a *much* nicer swiki; nice look; better administration.

    NewProcessMonitor

	better look;

    More configuration options and improved settings dialog

    Many improvements and bug fixes all over the place (lots of WIN32 fixes)

    We now recommend the use of the NewFileBrowser and NewSystemBrowser

    tools (they are in use for quite some time now)

Whats new in 4.1.x ?

A list of new features with links into the documentation

is found via the Launchers "Help" -> "Whats new in ST/X" menu item.

    first of all:

	finally a new licensing scheme;

	Please read the files

		TOP/README  (the README tab)

	which contains the additional license information.

	Make sure you agree - or else please contact us.

    Settings

	you will find a preliminary version of the pluggable settingsApp

	in the Launchers System-Menu, if you turn ON the

	"Use the new SettingsDialog" flag in the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog.

    NewSystemBrowser

	go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog,

	and turn ON the "Use the new SystemBrowser" flag.

	    (This takes a short time to load the browser,

	    so you may want to save an image after that, to avoid the delay in the future.)

	Please have a look into the updated HTML Documentation.

	cg: it is a good idea to also turn ON the

	   "new VersionDiff Browser" flag.

	   However, I dont like the new ChangesBrowser anymore ;-)

    NewFileBrowser

	MultiPane, Hierarchical Tree, File Properties,

	mime-type controlled presentation and more...

	go to the "Launcher-Settings-Tools" dialog,

	and turn ON the "Use the new FileBrowser" flag.

    ChangesBrowser

	now has multi-select capability and a pull down menu.

	if auto-compare is ON, diffs are shown immediately in the lower pane.

    SUnit testing framework

	see the Launchers "Tools" menu, or double click on any

	class derived from TestCase in the NewSystemBrowser.

	Last TestResults are remembered and indicated in the browsers class-icons.

Additional ported goodies:

    Minnestore, an object data base

	(status: runs almost testcases and I think it is almost usable; but who knows...)

    SOAP

	thanks to Steve Waring & Masashi Umezawa

    XML-VW

	thanks to Cincom; a portable XML parser

	And then there were two of them ;-)

	Some preliminary support to fileIn XML-source has also been added.

    XML-YAXO

	yet another XML parser.

    SIF

	the smalltalk interchange format

    RefactoryBrowser

	is available both in its original version

	(see the RefactoryBrowser class)

	and via the NewSystemBrowser (which uses the reafactorings,

	but is not based on the refactoryBrowser other than that)

    measurements

	a units package (kelvin to fahrenheit at its best)

    stMath

	a math package (see the test cases)

    quite a bunch of new widgets, widget improvements and bug fixes.

    Many bug fixes in the compiler(s) and the VM.

    For Windows Users:

	winstx.exe (i.e. stx without a console window) now works again;

	[although as a developer, I still prefer stx.exe ...)

	stx.exe/winstx.exe can now be started multiple times under

	W95/W98 (had a wrong linker flag in the nt.defs file, which

	prevented the previous version from doing that).

	stx for win can now be (re)compiled using the freeBorland tools

	(and the free stx version actually is ...).

	There is no longer a need to buy a compiler to add primitive

	code to st/x.

	Of course, if you stay on the smalltalk level, there is still no

	need for any compiler at all - the built-in jitter does not

	require a compiler.

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