# Pharo News of the Week 51/2024 - [ANN] pharox-dependency-visualizer: This tool helps understand/untangle dependencies https://github.com/ironirc/pharox-dependency-visualizer - [ANN] A Pharo/Bloc port of the example code from The Nature of Code book by Daniel Shiffman https://github.com/lucretiomsp/nature-of-code-pharo - [ANN] Pharo UFFI binding with the rtmidi library https://github.com/ironirc/pharo-rtmidi - [ANN] Poster from Audio Developer Conference 2024: "Phausto: fast and accessible DSP programming in Pharo" https://hal.science/hal-04813572v1/file/ADC2024-poster.pdf The weekly newsletter takes a break for the rest of the year. We wish already a happy new year and will be back in the second week of January.! # The week on the Pharo Issue Tracker # Pharo 12 - Fix compiler literals p12 #17532 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17532 # VM - Fixes for 10.3.2 #885 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/885 - Enhancement(versionning): Extract full semantic version from git #884 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/884 # Features - Breakpoints in debugger #920 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/920 - Sorting items in bag inspector by default #915 https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/915 - Using the dedicated pointers to image #1647 https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1647 # Fixes - Fix: #17531: We can use string instead of symbols in slot in class definition #17531 #17537 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17537 - fix-SDL-default-renderer-by-platform #17517 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17517 # Refactoring Engine - Fix RBClassRegexRefactoring #17552 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17552 - rename asMethodPreamble (dated concept) to asMethodSignature #17547 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17547 - fix #17543: [RB] Comment on RBClassRegexRefactoring and superclass is wrong #17545 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17545 - Cleaning ReDriver #17541 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17541 - Fixing the rename from call site. #17536 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17536 # Compiler - Fix: #17524 MOve OCASTSemanticCleaner to its only user: Reflectivity #17546 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17546 - improve comment of private method scanToken #17539 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17539 - Deprecate IRFix #17538 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17538 - Improving opal comment4 #17530 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17530 - Better comment in opal #17526 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17526 - Deprecate RBParser and RBPatternParser. #17514 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17514 # Comments - Better class comment for commentTestCase #17540 https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/17540