# Pharo News of the Week 46/2025 - [Blog Post] What if Java had Symmetric Converter Methods on Collection? https://donraab.medium.com/what-if-java-had-symmetric-converter-methods-on-collection-cbb824885c3f - [Research] 221 research papers in the PHARO Collection: https://inria.hal.science/PHARO. You can add your papers: https://pharo.org/web/PharoPublications - [ANN][TALK] Wednesday, Nov 26: Norbert Hartl - Soil: a database for fun and profit https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/311265917/ News wanted! You can add your news to this list (that is, next week) using this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - fix: make OnlineSourceDebugInfo>>#readVariableNamed:fromContext: work… #18719 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18719 - Fix #testUndeclared #18893 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18893 - Fix large array compilation #18825 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18825 # Tools - Using DebugInfo #1259 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1259 - Migrate Epicea browsers to NewTools #1282 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1282 - Remove Epicea browsers from Pharo #18896 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18896 - Add back sha in about #1281 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1281 - Bring back Select package as right dependency feature #1279 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1279 - Add a defaultAction to InformativeNotification #1278 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1278 - Inspecting a string should display the ' ' (Fix #814) #1277 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1277 - Fixes: Message browser panes cannot be removed with Cmd x anymore #18872 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18872 # Refactoring - Better comment and names for refactoring #18891 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18891 - Fix issue #18507: Scope issue breaks refactoring (retry) + new hook instantiateRefactoring #18890 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18890 - Tests references #18871 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18871 - Adding tests and comments for references: OCNodes #18863 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18863 - Feat/exposing temp def move #18861 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18861 # Spec - Do not use StPharoApplication in Spec #1842 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1842 - fixes on SpCodePresenter>>styleScheme and revert a rename #1841 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1841 - add selectedRowPresenter to tables #1840 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1840 # VM - A new file plugin #1024 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/1024 - Only scan the class table if become: was performed to an active class object #1023 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/1023 # Git / Iceberg - Introduce IceTipRepositoryStatusModel to avoid multiple commit lookups #1918 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1918 - 1686-SSH-Key-pair-should-not-ask-user-it-should-use-the-user-from-the-URL #1687 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1687 - MetacelloPharoPlatform>>#withMetacelloLoadSessionDo: is now in Pharo #1990 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1990 - Fixing the fetchAllRemotes DNU #1989 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1989 - Litlle fix for inform call #1986 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1986 - Miss select a folder to clone user input validation #1985 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1985 # inform: cleanup - Less meta prog for classes that are loaded. #18889 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18889 - Less inform: #18888 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18888 - Reduce dependencies to UIManager #18844 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18844 # Cleanup - 18813-Remove-Binary-representation-in-MCZ-files #18815 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18815 # Command Line - Allow to fetch flags and positionals not declared in the last subcommand #18875 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18875 # Packaging / Boostrap / Package loading - Fix multiple dependencies in DebugPoints #18892 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18892 - Clean Keymapping baseline #18887 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18887 - Fix kernel system dependency test #18886 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18886 - Fix minimal image tests #18885 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18885 - Clean a few dependencies of the kernel #18884 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18884 - Extract ParseTreeRewriter to its own package #18883 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18883 - Fix TFFI reset and fix load order #18882 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18882 - Revert loading order of TFFI #18880 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18880 - Start SessionManager with a session #18870 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18870 - Fix startup preferences loading #18867 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18867 - Clean traits in the bootstrap #18842 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18842