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UKSTUG Meeting: Esteban Lorenzano - Pharo 13 - 24 September 2025
by UK Smalltalk Sept. 23, 2025

Sept. 23, 2025

Earlier this year, the Pharo development team announced the availability of Pharo 13 ( https://pharo.org/news/2025-05-21-pharo13-released.html ). For our September 2025 meeting, Pharo's release manager Esteban Lorenzano will give us a tour of the new version - what's changed, and what remains the same. Esteban Lorenzano ( https://github.com/estebanlm ) studied Computer Sciences at Universidad de Buenos Aires, and worked since 1994 in several object-oriented and low-level technologies, in different software companies, serving in various positions from programmer to senior architect. In 2007 he co-founded Smallworks to offer Pharo-based agile development projects. Since 2012 he dedicated full time to developing the Pharo code and community. He works with the INRIA-EVREF team in Lille, France, as core developer for Pharo, being responsible with the coordination of new releases and the implementation and maintenance of several Pharo libraries. 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/310635970/) to receive the meeting details.

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Pharo News of the Week 38/2025
by Marcus Denker Sept. 22, 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 38/2025 - [ANN] Ukrainian translation of "Application Building with Spec 2.0" https://pharo.org/news/2025-09-13-Spec-Ukr.html - [Blog Post] Cooperative Pharo server shutdown https://github.com/svenvc/blog/blob/main/2025-09-12-cooperative-server-shut… - AIActions â AI-based Comment Generator for Pharo https://github.com/kasperosterbye/PharoAIActions If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker - uFFI valueholder multiple arity (external objects) #18531 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18531 - Make #printOn: on Character not print surrogates as a literal #18540 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18540 # Comand Line - move spec run cli command to clap #18535 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18535 - Replace Fuel command line handler by clap command #18534 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18534 - move back perform as a root command #18542 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18542 - move to Clap #1819 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1819 # Tools - Add inspector tab âFormSetâ showing a FormSet as an ImageMorph #1240 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1240 - Adding a setting to change default stack selection in debugger to show TestAsserter contexts when step Into #1242 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1242 # Icerberg / Git - Changing tabs when editing metadata project #1967 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1967 - Use new Iceberg merge browser in more places instead of the morphic one #1941 https://github.com/pharo-vcs/iceberg/pull/1941 # Cleanup - Deprecate asSocketAddress extension #18556 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18556 - Cleaning of SystemVersion #18551 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18551 - Removing support for parsing styledsource code ]style[ #18541 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18541 - Removed duplicate classes in new DrTest #18536 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18536 - Move Fuel code to Fuel package #1243 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1243 # Website - add news fondation uni lille #108 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/108 - news spec ukr #107 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/107 - news Coypu Concert #106 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/106

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Explanation of do: separatedBy: keyword message
by Rene Paul Mages (ramix) Sept. 22, 2025

Sept. 22, 2025

Hello, Please give me a hint to understand the "do: separatedBy:" keyword message used in ProfStef tutorial : i) in Pharo version 12 : https://ramix.org/pharo/ProfStef/iterators23.png ii) in Pharo version 13 : https://ramix.org/pharo/ProfStef/iterators25.png -- Thanks for your help. Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG key : 0x9840A6F7 https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo https://twitter.com/RenePaulMages

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Creation of a class help
by RenePaulMages Sept. 19, 2025

Sept. 19, 2025

Hello, I am restuding the chapter 5 ( Developing a simple counter ) of " Learning OOP " book : http://files.pharo.org/books-pdfs/learning-oop/2018-04-01-LearningOOP.pdf In the browser of Pharo version 13 I can't find neither the Object package nor the ProtoObject package. -- Thanks for your help Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG : 0x9840A6F7 https://wiki.linux-azur.org/?PagePHARO https://renemages.wordpress.com/smalltalk/pharo https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo

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installation of Pharo on a Linux/ubuntu laptop
by RenePaulMages Sept. 15, 2025

Sept. 15, 2025

Hello, My laptop is running Ubuntu 24.04 : https://doc.ubuntu-fr.org/noble After the download step : https://files.pharo.org/pharo-launcher/linux64 I am stuck with the following file : PharoLauncher-linux-3.4.1-x64.zip -- Thanks for your help Rene Paul Mages (ramix) GnuPG : 0x9840A6F7 https://wiki.linux-azur.org/?PagePHARO https://renemages.wordpress.com/smalltalk/pharo https://sites.google.com/view/les-logiciels-libres/pharo

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Pharo News of the Week 37/2025
by Marcus Denker Sept. 12, 2025

Sept. 12, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 37/2025 - [ANN] Live Coding and Djselecta with Lucretio + Coypu 18/09/2025 https://pharo.org/news/2025-09-12-Concert-Coypu.html - [ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member EMIT University of Fianarantsoa https://pharo.org/news/2025-09-11-Consortium-emit.html - [ANN] Fondation UniversitÃ© de Lille: Pharo selected as supported project for the Call 2024: https://fondation.univ-lille.fr/projets/les-projets-en-cours/soutenir-les-e… - SJsonPath is a Smalltalk library that provides a fluent API for creating JsonPath expression strings https://github.com/mumez/SJsonPath If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Fixes - Update POP3Client.class.st, use allButFirst #18523 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18523 # Command Line - Replace clean and save commands by their clap version #18525 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18525 - add test runner clap command #18521 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18521 - Replace metacello command line handler by clap command #18517 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18517 # FFI - FFI valueholder multiple arity: support returning array of structures #18479 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18479 # Tools - Fix syntax of "packages selected" for the finder #1238 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1238 - [Refactorings] Removing dependencies on NautilusRefactoring #18524 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18524 # Website - add consortium emit #105 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/105

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[ANN] Pharo Consortium New Academic Member: EMIT University of Fianarantsoa
by Marcus Denker Sept. 12, 2025

Sept. 12, 2025

The Pharo Consortium is very happy to announce that EMIT University of Fianarantsoa has joined the Consortium as an Academic Member. About - EMIT University of Fianarantsoa: https://www.emit.mg <https://www.emit.mg/> - Pharo Consortium: http://consortium.pharo.org <http://consortium.pharo.org/> Individuals can support Pharo via the Pharo Association https://association.pharo.org <https://association.pharo.org/>

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A couple of newb questions
by Will Senn Sept. 8, 2025

Sept. 8, 2025

Hi all, I'm brand new to pharo. I'm hoping y'all can help with a couple of beginner questions... 1) I'm running on debian 13 trixie. With Pharo 12, 13 or 14, the fonts are very tiny on my 2560x1440 display. What's the best way to make menus and text bigger. I tried a scale factor, but it looks ugly. If that's the recommended solution, fine. I can live with it, but I want to do it the right way. 2) The open url functions don't work. I get XPCOMGlueLoad errors: XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozgtk.so: /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: hb_ot_color_has_paint Couldn't load XPCOM It seems like this is an incompatible library issue. Is there a way to set another browser (I'm using Firefox) as the one pharo uses? I have several including opera and chrome. Thanks, Will

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Pharo News of the Week 36/2025
by Marcus Denker Sept. 5, 2025

Sept. 5, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 36/2025 [Wanted] Pharo News. If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 13 - [Backport] Improve folder selection in the File Browser #1232 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1232 # Fixes - Fixes #18482 Cannot push up a class var. #18504 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18504 - Allow to set tabs priority in Iceberg #18499 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18499 - Fixing ThemeIcons #18496 #18497 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18497 - Make path asFileReference for Roassal examples #18441 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18441 # Tools - Fix #1140: [Finder] Feature request: Allow saving edited method code #1215 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1215 - Fixing 18505: Pulse is not working #1236 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1236 - Do not use UIManager in ProtocolNameChooser #1235 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1235 - Fix bug in file presenter in case a folder is empty #1234 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1234 - Improve folder selection in the File Browser #1231 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/1231 - [Finder] Feature request: Allow saving edited method code #1140 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/issues/1140 - Make sure that we could have the completion working on the local clasâ¦ #18516 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18516 - First version of a driver for InsertSubclassDriver #18495 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18495 # Spec - Add tests for gh-1735 #1817 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1817 - Demo classes renamed to match better their purpose. #1816 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1816 - Fix Active presenter of a Notebook is not available in the #whenSelectedTabChangedDo: #1815 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1815 - latest changes #1814 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1814 - A fixed-width or fixed-height SpBoxLayout should not grow or shrink when adding or removing presenters #1813 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1813 # Command Lime - Add tests for Pharo command line #18473 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18473 - replace st and eval command line handlers by clap commands #18514 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18514 - add invalid code evaluation cli tests #18512 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18512 # Cleanup - Deprecate MailComposition that is in Morphic #18509 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18509 - Reduce the number of extensions in the system #18501 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18501

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Pharo News of the Week 35/2025
by Marcus Denker Aug. 29, 2025

Aug. 29, 2025

# Pharo News of the Week 35/2025 - [Wanted] Companies using Pharo https://pharo.org/news/2025-08-27-PharoCompanies.html - [ANN] Pharo Consortium New Gold Member qqDataFruits https://pharo.org/news/2025-08-28-Consortium-qqDataFruits.html If you want to add your news to this list, use this form: https://tinyurl.com/4c89buy4 # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 13 - [Backport] Manage cancelling of FileBrowser via UITheme #18478 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18478 # Fixes - backwardCompatible deprecation of trimmed in String #18337 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18337 # Code Completion - Add frequency-based completion sorting #18481 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18481 - Enh/generic workspace heuristic #18373 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18373 # Tools - Fix behavior of FileBrowser when we cancel the selection #18477 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18477 - Improve Iceberg opening management #18452 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18452 - Longer line + new line after comment. #18465 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18465 # Cleanups / Documentation - [Forward port #18414] Remove tests of deprecated code raising useless warnings #18463 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18463 - better doc on regex syntax #18461 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/18461 # Website - add news: consortium member qqDataFruits #104 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/104 - Add News: VM 3.10.6, 3.10.7 #103 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/103 - add news: Pharo Companies Wanted #102 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/102 - add QqDataFruits Success Story #101 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-website/pull/101

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