June 2026 - Pharo-users - lists.pharo.org

A note on the Pharo 14 release
by Esteban Lorenzano June 26, 2026

June 26, 2026

Hello Pharo users and developers, You may have noticed that our usual AprilâMay release did not happen this yea. We wanted to explain why Pharo 14 has been delayed, and why we are still not quite at the point where we want to release it. There is not much mystery: we got very ambitious about what we wanted to include. We are still finishing a few important pieces that we believe need to be part of this release, as they will provide foundations for the next development cycle. Here is a non-exhaustive list of what we are aiming to include: * Massive changes in the VM (v12) * Migration to SDL3 as the backend * Alexandria, as a future replacement for Athens * A Bloc preview â yes! * Toplo, the new widget set based on Bloc, and a SpecâToplo preview * And many other things that are not polished enough yet So, yes, we are disappointed not to have met our usual release cycle. But we believe the extra time will be worth it â once we get there :) Cheers, Esteban

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An Inference engine inside Pharo for LLMs
by omar abedelkader June 26, 2026

June 26, 2026

Hello everyone, for the first time, we have the first prototype of an inference engine without any connection to any of the external provider like Ollama, LMStudio, or vLLM. https://github.com/pharo-llm/pharo-inferï¿¼ pharo-llm/pharo-infer: pharo-infer is a inference engine inside Pharo github.com ï¿¼ â OA

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ANN: pharo bindings for QREncode
by Esteban Lorenzano June 22, 2026

June 22, 2026

Hello, Looking for small examples for (one of) my ESUG talks, I generate bindings forÂ this small tool: https://fukuchi.org/en/works/qrencode/ You can have things like this: https://github.com/pharo-cig/pharo-libqrencode I think it can be pretty useful :) Cheers ! Esteban

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UKSTUG Meeting: Koen De Hondt - Behaviour-Driven Development with Hera - 24 June 2026
by UK Smalltalk June 18, 2026

June 18, 2026

At ESUG 2025, Hera ( https://github.com/koendehondt/hera-for-pharo ) was introduced as a BDD framework bringing full Gherkin expressiveness to Pharo. Since then, Hera has evolved significantly â both as a framework and as a tool adopted in real-world industrial settings. After a brief introduction to Gherkin ( https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference ) for writing given-when-then scenarios, various aspects of Hera will be highlighted. A functional overview will set the scene, followed by a dive into the code to show how Hera maps Gherkin features and scenarios to Smalltalk classes and methods. During a live demo, example Gherkin scenarios for a simple Pharo Spec application will be written to explain the full scenario development cycle. Koen De Hondt ( https://be.linkedin.com/in/koendehondt ) has used Smalltalk since 1988, first as a student, then as an academic researcher, and then in industry. He holds a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1998). In the nineties and a few years after the turn of the century, he was one of the driving forces behind the Belgian Smalltalk User Group (BSUG). In that time frame, he presented at ESUG conferences several times. In 2003, he left the Smalltalk community for other adventures. In 2023, he returned to the Smalltalk scene and started all: objects all: theTime ( https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/ ). He has been an active contributor to Pharo ever since. Software development tools are his main interest. He is the main author of the book âApplication Building with Spec 2.0â ( https://books.pharo.org/BuildingApplicationsWithSpec/ ). This will be an online meeting. If you'd like to join us, please sign up in advance on the meeting's Meetup page ( https://www.meetup.com/ukstug/events/313860369/ ) to receive the meeting details.

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ESUG 2026 Attendees | Tech Awards
by Noury Bouraqadi June 10, 2026

June 10, 2026

Hi Fellow Smalltalkers, Are you attending ESUG 2026 in Plovdiv? Time to submit your project to the Tech Awards https://esug.org/2026-Conference/callForAwards.html It's a great opportunity to share work, get feedback, and why not win a prize. See you in Plovdiv, Noury Bouraqadi

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"Logging Interactions with the Iris MCP Server" â New blog post on all: objects all: theTime
by Koen De Hondt June 3, 2026

June 3, 2026

Dear Pharo users and developers, I posted the fourth article in a series about using AI in Pharo development. After building the MCP server and pair programming with Claude to write code in a Pharo image, I decided to add logging to the MCP server to keep an eye on what Claude is doing. https://all-objects-all-the-time.st/#/blog/posts/27 As always, all feedback is welcome. Happy reading! Ciao, Koen

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