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ChocoSmallTalk 0.1 has been released. It is a Smalltalk implementation written in Common Lisp.

It has been announced that a meeting of Squeak users will be held in Potsdam, Germany, on March 7 and 8, 2009. Squeak is a portable, open-source Smalltalk implementation and environment.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Toronto Smalltalk User Group will be held on January 12, 2009.

VA Smalltalk V8 Beta 1 has been released. VA Smalltalk is a multi-platform, VisualAge Smalltalk-compatible Smalltalk implementation.

This beta release includes: support for tabbed browsers, documentation updates, Seaside, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.1 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: new BlockClosure methods for evaluating blocks and removing parameters that are not accepted by the block, a common Iterable superclass for Collections and Streams, extended support for calling C functions, new Stream methods, support for line numbers and filenames in error backtraces, relocatable installations where possible, improved socket support, new Cairo and LibSDL bindings, new OpenGL and GLUT bindings, the inclusion of Seaside and the Swazoo web server, bug fixes, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.5 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: updated GTK+ bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

Dolphin Next Generation has been announced. It will be the next version of Dolphin Smalltalk, developed as a partnership between Object Arts and Lesser Software.

The planned features include: performance improvements, a multi-threaded VM, Unicode support, support for Smalltalk Link Libraries, 64-bit support, and more.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Toronto Smalltalk User Group will be held on September 18, 2008.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.4 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: performance improvements, a number of bug fixes, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0c has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: Iterable as a common superclass for Collections and Streams, line numbers and filenames in error backtraces, FileDescriptor as a subclass of Stream, new methods for various classes, bindings to OpenGL and GLUT, and other changes.

VA Smalltalk Forum Europe 2008 has been announced. It will be held in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on September 23, 2008.

Pragmatic Smalltalk 0.5 has been released. It is a native Smalltalk compiler offering integration with Objective-C.

It has been announced that slides are now available for most of the presentations of Smalltalk Solutions 2008.

Smalltalk YX 0.1.7 has been released. It is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: scheduler updates, improved error handling, the addition of the Random class, improved system signal handling, documentation updates, interpreter improvements, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0b has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: support for backing CObjects with garbage-collected storage, a relocatable installation if possible, a rewrite of the virtual filesystem subsystem, suport for thread-local variables, bindings to Cairo and LibSDL, bug fixes, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.3 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: new methods, a new -i command line option for gst-load, bug fixes, and other changes.

The SABLE programming language has been announced. It is a Smalltalk-derived programming language, running on .NET and Mono.

It has been announced that the next Toronto Smalltalk User Group meeting will be held on April 7, 2008.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0a has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: support for Seaside, the gst-remote tool for remotely controlling a GNU Smalltalk VM via a TCP socket, unbuffered sockets support, and other changes.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.2 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: improved GNUPlot bindings, a variety of new methods, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Sydney Smalltalk Users Group meeting will be held on February 26, 2008.

The International Smalltalk Joint Conference 2008 has put out a call for contributions.

The conference will be held from August 25 to 29, 2008, in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

It has been announced that registration for Smalltalk Solutions 2008 is now open.

It will be held from June 18 to 21, 2008, in Reno, Nevada.

GNU Smalltalk 3.0.1 has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes a number of bug fixes.

It has been announced that a Smalltalk meeting will be held in London, England on March 8, 2008.