Hello World !
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Welcome to the 7.x ST/X release.
Please refer to the online documentation
("What's new in ST/X" and "What's new in the Documentation") for detais.

What's new in 7.2 ?
    syntactic extension: c-style string literals like c'hello\nworld'.
    WebSocket support in HTTPInterface.
    Improved proxy support.
    tool improvements.

What's new in 7.1 ?
    some incompatible class changes make old binary class libraries incompatible;
    therefore a major version number change.
    again, many tool improvements.
    OS X support (64bit)
    64bit support for windows and linux
    better packaging and stand alone compilation tools

What's new in 6.2.5 ?
    many tool improvements.
    much better macosx view style
    better Xft font support (you need to enable those in the settings dialog).

What's new in 6.2.4 ?
    improved scripting support
    better java and javaBridge integration
    mercurial SCM
    smallsense
    initial port of the SWF (flash) file reader and writer (basil)

What's new in 6.2.3 ?
    ported Vassili Bykov's Announcements package
    package loading speedup and fixed prerequisite package loading
    all class libraries can now be compiled with mingw (mingwmake)
    Thrift IDL support"
    Cassandra Database interface
    GOODS Database interface
    improved monticello packager
    additional lint checks for collection protocol usage and dialect compatibility
    fixes and improvements in the line-breakpoint handling
    per process debug/halt enabling & disabling in browser's debug menu
    count method invocations per receiver class in browser's debug menu
    timestamping of transcript messages
    fixed and improved the VT100 terminal emulator
    improved break- and tracepoint handling in the system browser, debugger abd breakpoint browser
    improved code completion
    improved code correction when accepting invalid code
    many additional useful menu operations here and there (workspace, debugger, launcher, file browser)

What's new in 6.2.2 ?
    enhanced coverage analysis and display
    regex package cleaned for unicode
    browser enhancements
    improved windows menu in the launcher
    can be compiled/built with Visual-C (windows)

What's new in 6.2.1 ?
    Integrated Jan Vrany's enhancements: libsvn, new tools, lint
    many tool improvements (system browser, file browser)
    Method annotations
    Fixed SOAP via HTTPS
    stc generates messages in a gcc compatible format
    ported and included: monticello, gofer
    coverage display

What's new in 6.1.1 ?
    MOP-message lookup support.

Incremented the major version number, because the layout of a fundamental class
(Behavior) has changed.

What's new in 5.4.7 ?
    LDAP library in "stx:goodies/net/ldap"
    XMLRPC Server and Client (stx:goodies/xml/xmlrpc)

What's new in 5.4.6 ?
    some default keyboard settings changed (F2 vs. CTRL-space)
    many bug fixes and minor enhancements.
    Magritte framework included
    Merged Jan Vrany's changes. Can now load SmallRuby directly into the distributed st/x.
    rdoit (goodies) compiles with bcc32 (WIN32)
    inspector: new menu item: 'show widget hierarchy' (if a view is selected in the field-list)
    packager: very easy generation of deployable standAlone programs
    class creation wizard in the browser
    immutableLiterals (cmd-line argument to VM)

What's new in 5.4.4 ?
    oldSpace limit increased (512Mb)
    fixedPoint literals (like 12.34s2) supported by stc
    splash screen support
    remote scripting interface

What's new in 5.4.3 ?
    added abbreviations/snippet support
    CodeView functions to insert as String Literal
    Unicode Support: input methods, window title, filenames and attributes

What's new in 5.4 ?
    Mutex support for Win32
    BreakPoint browser
    GUI-Painter improvements
    Debugger shows flyBy info
    improved code-completion

What's new in 5.3 ?
    INIFile reader/writer
    skip-halt feature in Debugger
    tip of the day
    myWorkspace feature (many other improvements in workspaces)
    can generate self-installing deployable packages (null-soft instller packages)
    can generate makefiles for win32 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
	     compare two repository versions
    Editor: sort
    VM: dynamic library loading bug fixed; jitted-literal bug fixed
    FFI support
    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.

What's new in 5.2 ?
    General Unicode font support.
    xpSwiki ported.
    FileBrowser improved (is now almost a usable unicode editor !)

What's 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)

What's new in 5.1.5 ?
    Bug fixes in the windows version (API-wraps, exceptions etc.)
    HTTPServer/HTTPService framework improvements.

What's new in 5.1.4 ?
    Better performance and restructured code in the HTTPServer/HTTPService framework.

What's 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.

What's 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.

What's new in 4.1.9 ?
    Better HTTPServer administration.
    XML-Xpath and XSL support
    Comanche STT added (Smalltalk Templates)

What's 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)


What's new in 4.1.x ?

A list of new features with links into the documentation
is found via the Launchers "Help" -> "What's 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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