<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi guys,<div><br></div><div>I've released Self 4.4 Beta 1.</div><div><br></div><div>Download VM installers for MacOS X and Linux and Clean and Demo snapshots from: <a href="http://selflanguage.org/download/">http://selflanguage.org/download/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Barring minor fixes, I will reissue this release as Self 4.4 at the start of April. The proper description of Self 4.4 is a revived Self running on Mac OS X and Linux x86 and ready as a base for new functionality.</div><div><br></div><div>Self 4.4 will be the first Self release since Self 4.3 which was released in June 2006. In future we will attempt a slightly faster turnaround :)</div><div><br></div><div>Please post bugs to the Self bugtracker at <a href="http://self.lighthouseapp.com">http://self.lighthouseapp.com</a> and to this mailing list.</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Russell</div><div><br></div><div>--------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Since Alpha 2 we have changed (this is a quick dump from commit messages):</div><div><div><ul class="MailOutline"><li>Changes to SelfDroplet to ensure proper registration of filetype </li><li>Minor changes to website </li><li>Fix for bug ticket #3 - Compressed snapshots now work on Linux </li><li>Fix to UI1 text editing and small improvement to error handling</li><li>Fix for bug ticket #2 - Self will now compile on Ubuntu</li><li>Fix for bug ticket #1 - Linux: Display will now reopen after saving world in new snapshot</li><li>Added -Wno-write-strings flag to GCC compile </li><li>Initial copy of Self Handbook (incorporates existing manuals in RST for Sphinx) </li><li>Changes for Snow Leopard </li><li>Add a nice icon for the Dock in MacOS X </li><li>Removed some binaries from the git repository, split sortedList out of the list module. </li><li>Fix colorsFor: in 'traits ui2Image' to account for mapped or unmapped </li><li>Add PNG support and fix JPG/GIF support in webBrowser </li><li>Changed flag to be "-headless" to start image without ui2 </li><li>Added Chris Double as an AUTHOR </li><li>Make webBrowser send Host: header </li><li>Add linux build files to .gitignore </li><li>Set the module for linux socketConstants </li><li>Added value:With:With:With:With:With:With:. </li><li>Get builds working under Arch Linux </li><li>Add a socketConstants slot for os_file under linux </li><li>Fix sockets under Linux </li><li>Clarification of copyright AUTHORS to include Sun and Stanford University </li><li>Split mirrorProgramming from mirror, so that Klein won't need to file it in. </li><li>Added blockTests.self. </li><li>Clean up and clarification of copyright terms </li><li>Source tree cleanup </li><li>Fixes to UI1 </li><li>Starting to refactor the tests to make it easier to use them in Klein. </li><li>Also refactored the slotFinder to be iterative instead of recursive. </li><li>Made the javaServer stuff file in OK (sort of, I think). It still needs to be filed in from the terminal, without the Self desktop running. </li><li>Updated website to Sphinx 0.6.1 and added links to blog </li><li>Fixed a typo in some comments, added max: and min: methods to the ordered mixin. </li></ul></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></body></html>