VM

  Version number format changed slightly to be consistent with this
  week's flavour of image version number format.

  Several performance tweaks (40% faster compared to 3.5-1).

  Experimental support for dead keys under X11, enabled if either
  LC_CTYPE or LC_ALL is set in the environment.  New command-line
  option '-nointl' to disable this, in case of problems (or set
  SQUEAK_NOINTL=1 in the environment).

  Ephemeron support added to the VM.

  Pixel format bug fix applied to shared OpenGL renderer code.

  Control modifier correctly set for mouse wheel on OS-X.

  Support for new [Old]Socket primitive listenOn:backlogSize:interface:.

  inisqueak runs the VM if default image/sources are already installed
  in the cwd.

  Improvements to OS-X app icon and miniaturised dock image behaviour.

  Problem with 3-button mice on OS-X fixed.

  Improved timing for Delays.

  All sockets invalidated when there is no active net session.

  Minor socket changes to squash unnecessary error messages when the
  image doesn't behave itself.

  More intelligent searching for plugins.  No longer necessary to set
  LD_LIBRARY_PATH to run OpenGL, and '-plugin' option should almost
  never be required.

  New "modular" display and sound driver.  Drivers are loaded
  dynamically at startup, so (e.g.) no need for separate "headless"
  binaries.  New option '-vm' controls which drivers are loaded.
  Bundled drivers:

        display-null    (headless)
        display-X11     (traditional Unix)
        display-Quartz  (MacOSX native)
        display-fbdev   (Linux console framebuffer)
        sound-null      (deaf and mute)
        sound-OSS       (Open Sound System and Linux native)
        sound-MacOSX    (MacOSX native)
        sound-NAS       (Network Audio System)
        sound-Sun       (Solaris/SunOS).

  Deprecated options: -nodisplay, -nosound, -quartz.

  Improvements to the selection code from Ned: copy/paste issues (with
  KDE/Qt-style apps) almost all fixed, and some improvements in UTF-8
  text handling.

  New icons for OS-X from Bert Freudenberg.

  Experimental support for SIGHUP and SIGQUIT (create emergency "image
  dump" file, with or without subsequent abort).  Disabled at
  compile-time by default.  This feature has inherent dangers, so
  enabling it is deliberately nontrivial (requiring: filing-in a
  changeset to modify primitiveSnapshot, regenerating the core VM,
  finding the definition in sqUnixMain.c that turns the feature on,
  modifying it, and recompiling the whole kaboodle).

BROWSER PLUGIN VM

  NPSqueak works with latest plugin image.  Tested with Bert's ".sts"
  script, and with various project pages at Squeakland.org, on:
  Mozilla 1.5b, Firebird 0.6.1, Opera 6.03.

VM PLUGINS

  DirectoryPlugin bundled with VM.

  Updated OSPP plugin from Dave.

INSTALL

  Dependencies on glibc2.3 (GNU/Linux) eradicated.

  Rogue dependency on libiconv (MacOSX) fixed.

  MacOSX version now completely free of non-System dependencies:
  should install and run on any 10.2 machine (with or without X11).

  Contents of RPMs have "root.bin" ownership on all files.

BUILD

  configure.ac test for DOUBLE_WORD_ORDER fixed once and for all.

KNOWN PROBLEMS

  Sound on Solaris still not quite right.

  Changing display depth on MacOSX still doesn't work.

  FFIPrims refuse to work (last time I looked) when compiled
  external on Mac OS X (which is something of a mystery...).

  The fbdev driver does not handle dead keys or diacriticals very well.

Binaries and sources in the usual place for:

        PowerPC MacOSX  10.2.6	(.dmg image - vm only)
        PowerPC MacOSX  10.2.6	(.dmg image - full: vm, image, sources)
        PowerPC Darwin  6.6	(traditional Unix install)
        PowerPC GNU/Linux
        386     FreeBSD 4.7
        386     GNU/Linux
        Sparc   Solaris 2.8