how exactly does one do this on Windows, without violating the "msi contract" (i.e. one was as dumb enogh to install the proposed msi package some time back) ?

Ie. I'm perfectly capable of overwriting the VM, but don't tell me it's the right thing to do" (tm).

M.R.

From: Guillermo Polito <guillermopolito@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2023 2:25:32 PM
To: Pharo Development List; Any question about pharo is welcome; pharo-vm@lists.pharo.org
Subject: [Pharo-dev] VM Release 10.0.8

Hi all,

TL;DR; update your launcher VMs and your download scripts!

There is a new VM version: release 10.0.8 which fixes, among others, a performance regression that showed in some cases that overly relied on the interpreter.

See below the changes log, and for those interested, the fix for the performance issue is here: https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/705

What's Changed

Fixes #14768: File class>>primFileAttributes�� answers corrupted result by @akgrant43 in #697
Fix/speed regression by @tesonep in #705

Full Changelog: v10.0.7...v10.0.8