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Pharo News of the Week 45/2026 ============================== 30 October - 6 November 2026 News ---- - A complete Smalltalk-80 virtual machine written in Smalltalk, based on the 1983 Xerox PARC publication (3 Nov) https://github.com/ljulliar/smalltalk-80-sources - Video: Music and sound with Pharo (4 Nov), Domenico Cipriani's talk at the UK Smalltalk User Group, 27 May 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgdwVsI28no - Video: Behaviour-driven development with Hera (5 Nov), Koen De Hondt's talk at the UK Smalltalk User Group, 24 June 2026 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fChZGdJ03U0 Highlights ---------- - Pharo 15 moves to Unicode 18.0, with the Unicode tables now stored as bytes (#20168). - The Commander 2 migration takes another step in Calypso (#20145, #20165, #20166). - Pharo Launcher now lists the Compiler Course image and Moose Suite 13 for Pharo 14. - Merged PRs: pharo 29 (28 on Pharo15, 1 on Pharo14), NewTools 5, Spec 1, pharo-launcher 2; pharo-vm and iceberg 0. Pharo 15 -------- 28 PRs merged into the Pharo15 branch. Commander 2 and Calypso - #20145 New step on commander 2 migration https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20145 - #20165 Use CmCommandAborted instead of CmdCommandAborted https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20165 - #20166 Align API of SystemCommand to Commander2 API https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20166 - #20144 Some fixes in Calypso https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20144 - #20148 ClyShowPoolUsersCommand should be available only on class pools https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20148 Formatter, refactorings and rules - #20180 Keep a binary receiver of a binary message free of parentheses https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20180 - #20179 Reformat with the package's formatter, from EnlumineurFormatter https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20179 - #20167 Fix: raise a refactoring error for invalid intervals in extract method https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20167 - #20157 Make RBRemoveTemporaryVariableTransformation handles nested (shadowed variables) - now UnusedTemp has auto fix https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20157 - #20160 Improving the replaceMethod source code before turning it into a visitor https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20160 Reflectivity - #20118 Fix method sender reification after selector node migration https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20118 - #20171 Make reflectivity more robust https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20171 System, libraries and UI - #20168 Update the Unicode data to 18.0 and store its tables as bytes https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20168 - #20136 Create FFI callbacks through their library https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20136 - #20138 Fix/png reader https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20138 - #20174 Fix store settings of groups https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20174 - #20142 Update the Shout style on theme change when no style was chosen https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20142 - #20135 Pharo UI Improvements https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20135 - #20177 Revert "Pharo UI Improvements" https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20177 - #20143 Revert "Sync Zinc with svenvc/zinc" https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20143 Class comments - #20151 fix/zipped comment fix #20147 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20151 - #20155 fixing the bytearray>>zipped executable comment for real this time. https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20155 - #20154 Integrating the CRC template into the comment builder. https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20154 Tests and cleanups - #20146 Fix multiple tests https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20146 - #20162 Fix last failing test https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20162 - #20176 Fix testLocalMethodsOfTheClassShouldNotBeRepeatedInItsTraits https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20176 - #20096 Work on methods with equivalent in superclass https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20096 - #20164 Last P14 to P15 sync https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20164 Pharo 14 (1 PR) - #20117 Fix ReImplementedNotSentRule reporting methods that send their own selector https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/20117 VM and other repositories ------------------------- NewTools (pharo-spec/NewTools) - #1557 Use the receiver inherited from the parent group in settings items https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1557 - #1558 Do not write settings when showing their values https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1558 - #1561 fix: fix namespace test setup and expected changes size https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1561 - #1559 Restore zip compressed items inspection tab from Pharo 12 (fixes pharo#20092) https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1559 - #1545 Transcript: Introduce API agnostic to internal line return https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1545 Spec (pharo-spec/Spec) - #1962 Improve assertions failures descriptions for some tests https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1962 Pharo Launcher (pharo-project/pharo-launcher) - #781 Update sources.list with Moose Suite 13 for Pharo 14 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/pull/781 - #783 Add compiler course image to the launcher list next to the mooc (the "Pharo Mooc" entry becomes "Pharo Courses") https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-launcher/pull/783 pharo-vm, iceberg, pharo-website, pharo-zeroconf: no commits this week. Mailing lists ------------- pharo-users - Pharo by Example (1 Nov): a 2025 thread revived to ask whether the book, which still targets Pharo 9, will now be updated after the Pharo 14 release; no reply yet. https://lists.pharo.org/hyperkitty/list/pharo-users@lists.pharo.org/thread/B... - Call for presenters - UKSTUG 2027 meetings (3 Nov): the UK Smalltalk User Group is looking for speakers for its monthly online meetings; open dates from 27 January to 24 November 2027. https://lists.pharo.org/hyperkitty/list/pharo-users@lists.pharo.org/thread/S... pharo-dev - No new threads apart from last week's News of the Week.