Smalltalk/X jv-branch ChangeLog

• 2015-09-21
  • FIX: Fixed a bad bug in Xft font rendering causing a VM crash (due to memory corruption, see c5cb9d5dfaae/stx.libview)

• 2015-09-11
  • ENH: Mercurial: Added support for commit amending (i.e., for hg commit --amend. See ​stx:libscm issue 19.

• 2015-09-09
  • ENH: X11: Make Smalltalk/X be more adhering to ​ICCCM 2.0 and ​EWMH 1.5 standards. This improves UX of Smalltalk/X when run under modern window manager, such as Gnome Shell. See 12bc34f97b84/stx.libview, e2d3459c6309/stx.libview, 7f3a3fe5b871/stx.libview, 2a4ce6c4d0b5/stx.libview.

• 2015-08-07
  • ENH: Performance & functional improvement in FFI callouts (see de37550dc3dd/stx.libbasic)

• 2015-07-27
  • FIX: Fixed a baad bug causing VM crash when one set a breakpoint on Java Method (see librun commit 79868de791e7)

• 2015-07-07
  • FIX: Fixed bug introduced by upstream change a37464a68e70/stx.libbasic (commit d0cc0d0cfffd/stx.libbasic )
  • ENH: Enabled FFI for 64bit Linux builds (though 64bit linux builds are not yet considered "stable enough")

• 2015-07-05
  • MAJOR CHANGE: Bye bye, Borland! . Use MINGW32 toolchain to build 32bit Windows version. Got rid of ancient Borland compiler. Finally! Argh...

• 2015-06-29
  • Virtual Machine
    • FIX: Fixed a baad bug causing VM crash when one set a breakpoint on Java Method (librun commit 79868de791e7)

• 2015-06-20
  • stx:goodies/smallsense
    • ENH: Integrated Jakub Nesveda's excellent custom refactorings (​announcement)

• 2015-06-18
  • stx:libtool
    • FIX: Fixed issue #39 - see 868a99865eb9/stx.libtool.
    • ENH: Integrated new DocBook based documentation for STX:LIBJAVA to CI builds.

• 2015-06-17
  • stx:libbasic
    • FIX: Fixed issue #65 - see 8735bd9eee2f/stx.libbasic.

• 2015-06-10
  • STC, Virtual Machine, stx:libbasic, stx:libcomp
    • ENH: Fill in Block source position, i.e., an offset of opening bracket. Given a Block instance, one may ask for it's source position by aBlock sourcePos. Moreover, one can get a parse tree (RB) of the block by aBlock parseTree. This allows for nice optimizations in PetitParser compiler.

• 2015-06-03
  • stx:libbasic
    • ENH: Performance fixes in String>>at: and Array>>at:/at:put: - see 877a8f1b326d/stx.libbasic and 9e4db770f8f5/stx.libbasic

• 2015-05-30
  • Virtual Machine
    • FIX: Fixed bug in Java synchronized method invocation (see ​issue #84).
  • stx:libbasic
    • FIX: Fixed FileStream>>position, position: and setToEnd when stream is in non-buffered mode. See commit 5e7e40d367f2/stx.libbasic
• 2015-05-21
  • Virtual machine
    • ENH: Use mmap() / munmap() to allocate new space.
    • ENH: When VM is compiled in DEBUG mode (default), allocate extra guard pages behind each newspace halve.
    • FIX: Fixed baaad bugs in various allocation routines causing overflow to memory behind newspace and thus trashing whatever data are there. See commit 384622fa1a79/stx.libbasic. Few VM routines suffered the same.
    • FIX: Fixed initialization of poly caches (they have not been cleared properly)