While I'm not able to commit time to help due to personal commitments taking all my spare time at the moment - it does make me smile reading the list of improvements and the fact the people care about this stuff. Big thanks to all of you! Tim On Fri, 3 Mar 2023, at 10:51 AM, Marcus Denker wrote:

We merged 58 PRs this week:

Compiler ========

- Improve faulty parsing of byte array literal (alternative version) #12818 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12818

- NumberParser: kill requestor #12835 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12835

- Add RBToken>>isSpecial: to simplify parsing code #12836 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12836

- Clean some parsing code #12861 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12861

- Improve scanning: escape comments #12857 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12857

- Hook for custom syntaxhighlight #12594 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12594

- Improve faulty parsing: generalize code snippets #12847 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12847

- Improve faulty parsing: rename content as contents (a s was missing) #12854 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12854

- 12858-CopiedLocalVariable-answers-false-to-isTemporaryVariable-even-when-it-is #12869 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12869

- HotFix. Restore RBScanner>>#parseErrorNode: #12875 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12875

- Do not stack RBUnfinishedStatementErrorNode #12873 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12873

- EFFormatter use parenthesis on error nodes if some were present #12872 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12872

- RBCodeSnippet nice overview of error messages #12871 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12871

- Rewrite some error messages to follow the style Foo expected #12874 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12874

- Improve faulty parsing on variables #12868 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12868

- Improve faulty parsing of methods #12879 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12879

- Improve faulty parsing by testing unreachable code #12893 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12893

- Improve faulty parsing on chars (and primitive arrays) #12891 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12891

Fixes =====

- Update matchesTypes to fix DNU in matchesTypes #12611 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12611

- Fix float comparision with precision and start to test Math-Operation… #12615 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12615

- Refactoring TDebugger class>>#handlesContext: to TDebugger>>#handlesDebugSession: #12833 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12833

- New try at not hardcoding Metacello Attributes #12511 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12511

- Fix TPrintTests rotten green tests #12846 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12846

- Use MethodClassifier protocol for new methods instead of the selected protocol #12882 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12882

- Do not ask the user a method protocol first but instead try to auto classify the method and only ask the user if auto classification failed #470 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/470

- Fix #10929 Graphic UI selection glitch with selected text on large screens #12863 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12863

- Fix #12459 : text selection drag and drop problem. #12460 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12460

- Fixing debugger inspector that wasn't updating when the debugger entered a new optimized scope #472 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/472

- Prevent recursive retries on createIcebergRepositoryWithFallbackFor:url: #1673 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1673

- Fixes: Committing with empty description can lead to problems #1681 #1682 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1682

External Package ===============

- Update the version of graph algos to use the latest one #12851 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12851

- Updating Tonel version #12865 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12865

- Sync ston #12829 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12829

- Microdown-RichTextComposer is now managed outside #12890 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12890

CI ===

- Make all PRs to run in the latest VM #12605 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12605

- Remove zinc file system from bootstrap #12839 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12839

- Skipping test in windows as it is hanging #12887 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12887

Features ========

- new general rule ReNotEqualityOperatorsRule to inform users of != or !== #12864 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12864

- Adding new rewrite tools #464 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/464

- Loading Chest in BaselineOfNewTools: Integration of Chest as a debugger extension #451 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/451

Cleanups ========

- Remove SerialPort that relies on a vm plugin that is not in the vm anymore #12773 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12773

- Refactoring UI cleanup #12528 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12528

- Remove old slang pragmas #12849 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12849

- Remove not loaded Pillar packages #12848 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12848

- Deprecate all nativeboost methods #12838 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12838

- Remove dependency of ChangeSet on Author #12584 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12584

- Remove old RewriteTools #12607 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12607

- Remove help packages that are not loaded in the image #12613 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12613

- Cleanup: Condense Rubric packages #12626 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12626

- Cleanup: Condense System-Caching packages #12660 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12660

- Cleanup: Condense System-Changes packages #12662 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12662

- Clean up spaces in Polymorph-Widgets package #12855 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12855

- Cleanup: Condense System-BasicCommandLineHandler packages #12658 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12658

- use ifEmpty ifNotEmpty #12877 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/12877

- Remove reference to deprecated class #1679 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1679