<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear all,<br><br>I've decided to bite the bullet and release. Remaining issues have not been forgotten - this is hopefully the start of a more regular set of improvements to Self! <div><br></div><div>Thanks to everyone who has helped with feedback and code and a special thank you to David Ungar!<div><br></div><div>This is what I have posted to the Self blog:</div><div><br></div><div>---------------<div><br>I would like to announce the release of version 4.4 of the Self environment.<br><br>Self is a prototype-based dynamic object-oriented programming language, environment, and virtual machine centred around the principles of simplicity, uniformity, concreteness, and liveness.<br><br>Self includes a programming language, a collection of objects defined in the Self language, and a programming environment built in Self for writing Self programs. The language and environment attempt to present objects to the programmer and user in as direct and physical a way as possible. The system uses the prototype-based style of object construction.<br><br>Self is the canonical prototype based language within the Smalltalk family. It is open source under a BSD-like licence and includes a fast VM and a development environment built on the original Morphic GUI that Squeak's Morphic is a descendent of. <br><br>Changes in release 4.4 include:<br>- an improved Quartz based backend for the MacOS X version and <br>- a working port of Self to Linux (x86); <br>- various bug fixes and general improvements.<br><br>You can download Self from the website at <a href="http://selflanguage.org/">http://selflanguage.org/</a> in binary form and all sources are available either by running Self or at <a href="http://github.com/russellallen/self/">http://github.com/russellallen/self/</a><br><br>Documentation includes the Self Handbook at <a href="http://docs.selflanguage.org/">http://docs.selflanguage.org</a> and a large number of published papers on Self at<a href="http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/">http://selflanguage.org/documentation/published/</a><br><br>You can keep up to date with Self by following either the Self blog at <a href="http://blog.selflanguage.org/">http://blog.selflanguage.org</a> or joining the Self mailing list - details at <a href="http://selflanguage.org/discuss/">http://selflanguage.org/discuss/</a> and archive at <a href="http://forum.selflanguage.org">http://forum.selflanguage.org</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://forum.selflanguage.org/"></a>------------------<br><br>Yours selfishly,<br><br>Russell</div></div></div></body></html>