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I'm trying to summarize the changelog for Pharo 7 (based on about 2500 merged PRs, not counting standalone commits to Iceberg and Calypso). If something more should be mentioned, please let me know.

Revolutionary kernel changes

- bootstrap

- modular stateful traits

- traits flattening in kernel packages

- new sources file for every bootstrapped version, empty changes

- new class builder

- binary packages loading (Hermes)

Infrastructure changes

- switch to GitHub

- Tonel code format��

- update building infrastructure to Jenkins 2

Code management

- Calypso, the new system browser

�� - new navigation model�� ����

�� - faster UI

�� - tabs toolbar instead of single source code panel

�� - explicit commands instead of duplicated menu and shortcuts

�� - extendable by plugins

�� - suitable for the remote scenario

�� - "dynamic protocols", support multiple tags per method

�� - not required star convention for class extension

�� - support multiple tags per class

�� - visibility option for inherited methods

�� - methods inherited from traits are not shown by default

�� - variable view as the special mode for method group view.

�� - better keyboard navigation

�� - and many more

Iceberg

- a new friendly user interface

- simplification of solving problems with repositories

- workflow simplification

- better GitHub, BitBucket, GitLab support

- improved code merging and comparisons

- new code serialization format (Tonel)

- repositories metadata

- documentation

- better error handling, tags support

- improved Iceberg-Metacello integration

- credentials store

Cleanups

- remove Nautilus

- remove UpdateStream

- remove all Configurations

- remove ShoreLine-Report

- remove TxText

- remove PluggableTabBarMorph

- remove the old Compiler

- remove Watery theme

- remove Versionner

- remove Komitter

- remove LegacyWeakSubscription

- continue on deprecation of FileStream

- dead code cleanups

- code organization cleanups

- unify categorization of common methods

- cleanups of object inspection protocol

- start with Ring deprecation

- better structure of packages

- package comments

Updates

- Zinc��

- Epicea

- FFI

- Metacello

- Fuel

New��

- Calypso

- integrate WebBrowser

- integrate ReferenceFinder

- Hermes

- Refactoring 2

- Commander

- ClassAnnotation

Spec

- ComposableModel renamed to ComposablePresenter

- new calendar presenter��

- Spec-Demo

- improve Spec linking to domain models

Look & Feel

- use the white theme by default

- improve themes switching

- main menu bar

- new window management shortcuts

- better support of fallback bitmap fonts

- improved Inspector refreshing

- Spotter is looking for opened windows

- display scale factor

- FastTable improvements

VM interface

- DoubleWord and DoubleByte arrays

- add EncoderForSistaV1

- read-only literals support

- improvements and fixes for 64-bit support

- fixes for FullBlockClosure

- support of the new bytecode set

Reflectivity

- breakpoints improvements

- test coverage using metalinks

- reflectivity and metalinks improvements

Other

- startup running in a fresh process

- better pin messages

- NewValueHolder and Model API unification

- better working and image directories meaning separation

- SortFunctions composable

- better OSWindow support

- convert rules to the Renraku architecture

- class and method comments improvements

- extensible Playground (pageActionOrder:)

- optional password management for command line handlers

- system dependencies tests

- unify way to obtain package manifests