On 18 Mar 2013, at 11:26, stephane ducasse <stephane.ducasse@free.fr> wrote:

> Thanks to everybody for all the energy put in this good version.
>
> Stef

Finally, 2.0 released !

My general feeling is that of gratitude towards the community for everybody's contributions.

Sven

> On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:21 AM, Benjamin <benjamin.vanryseghem.pharo@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>

>> Ben
>>
>> On Mar 18, 2013, at 11:12 AM, Marcus Denker <marcus.denker@inria.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> We are proud to announce the release of Pharo 2.0!
>>>
>>> You can find information about Pharo at: http://www.pharo-project.org
>>>
>>> About this release
>>> ------------------
>>> All in all, there were over 1600 issues treated in the issue tracker
>>> and 1350 improvements integrated into 2.0.
>>>
>>> http://code.google.com/p/pharo/issues/list?can=1&q=Milestone%3D2.0+status%3AIntegrated
>>>
>>> Read it again, yes 1350 is huge, take two minutes and have a look at the list of
>>> improvements! Now you got the feel of the effort. And this was a true community
>>> effort. It is possible because people worldwide helped! We want to deeply thank them.
>>>
>>> We want to thank Inria for its constant support, in particular for the salary of Igor
>>> Stasenko and Esteban Lorenzano, and for the help in the infrastructure.
>>>
>>> We have accomplished this huge task for a better system because we were together. Do not
>>> forget that we are working on a consortium to support our system:
>>>
>>> - http://consortium.pharo.org (for companies and organizations)
>>> - http://association.pharo.org (for individuals)
>>>
>>> Our goal is to build a system so that we can make a living with our creativity and
>>> programming skills.
>>>
>>> You can find information about Pharo on http://www.pharo-project.org. In particular,
>>> you may be interested in:
>>>
>>> - Joining us and getting help http://www.pharo-project.org/community
>>> - Getting the Pharo By Example book (available as a free PDF): http://www.pharobyexample.org
>>> - Watching the screencasts http://www.pharocasts.com
>>> - Reporting problems http://www.pharo-project.org/community/issue-tracking
>>> - Reading the forth coming book http://rmod.lille.inria.fr/pbe2
>>> - Reading the Pharo vision document http://bit.ly/HNkEru
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for your participation, energy and fun.
>>>
>>> � � � � � � � � � � � � � � -- The Pharo Team
>>>
>>> Summarized issues for 2.0
>>> ==================
>>>
>>> UI
>>> ---
>>>
>>> - Spec
>>> - Widget enhancements
>>> - Layout improvements/cleanups
>>> - Keybindings
>>> - New icons (famfam)
>>> - Growl style notifications
>>> - Revamp progress bar
>>>
>>> Developer tools
>>> ---------------
>>>
>>> - Nautilus browser
>>> - Critics browser
>>> - Improved version diff browsing
>>> - Spotlight
>>> - Revamp Code Completion and smart chars
>>> - Interactive navigation using ctrl/cmd+click over classes/methods
>>> - Shout themes
>>> - Andreas profiler
>>>
>>> Networking
>>> -----------
>>>
>>> - Update Zinc
>>> - Zodiac (SSL)
>>>
>>> System
>>> -------
>>>
>>> - System Announcer
>>> - RPackage replacing PackageInfo
>>> - Command line tools / Headless mode
>>> - Native boost
>>> - Update Ring metamodel
>>> - Fuel serializer
>>> - Freetype fonts
>>>
>>> Kernel
>>> ------
>>>
>>> - DateAndTime refactoring
>>> - Updated FileSystem and replaced FileDirectory
>>>
>>> VM
>>> --
>>>
>>> - Latests cog builds
>>> - SSLPlugin
>>> - FilePlugin enhancements
>>> - SocketPlugin fixes
>>> - Included libraries: freetype2, cairo
>>>
>>> Cleanups
>>> -------------
>>>
>>> - FileDirectory removed (replaced by FileSystem)
>>> - SmartRefStream and ReferenceStream removed (replaced by Fuel)
>>> - PackageInfo deprecated (replaced by RPackage)
>>>
>>> Other
>>> -------
>>>
>>> - Zeroconf scripts
>>> - Continuous Integration for every aspect of our release process.
>>>
>>> Not all the changes are reported here, but this is to give you an impression,
>>> you can find better explanation here: https://code.google.com/p/pharo/wiki/ActionsInPharo20
>>>
>>>
>>>
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