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GNU Smalltalk 2.2d has been released. It is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: licensing changes, the creation of RegexResult objects in C code rather than in Smalltalk, packaging fixes, Brad Watson's ncurses bindings, plus other changes and fixes.

Smalltalk Solutions 2007 has put out a call for papers.

The submission deadline is December 15, 2006. The conference will be held from April 30 to May 2, 2007, in Toronto, Canada.

GNU Smalltalk 2.2c has been released. It is a portable, open source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: greater accuracy for several floating point operations, headers that can be compiled with a C++ compiler, and bug fixes.

Exupery 0.10 has been released. Exupery compiles Squeak bytecode to machine code.

The November 5 to 11, 2006 edition of The Weekly Squeak Summary is now available. It is a summary of developments within the Squeak community. Squeak is a portable, open-source Smalltalk implementation and environment.

IBM VisualAge Smalltalk Enterprise V6.0.4 has been released.

This release includes bug fixes.

VA Smalltalk 7.0.1 is now available for download. VA Smalltalk is a Smalltalk system based on IBM VisualAge Smalltalk.

This release includes a number of bug fixes.

The October 29 to November 4, 2006 edition of The Weekly Squeak Summary is now available. It is a summary of developments within the Squeak community. Squeak is a portable, open-source Smalltalk implementation and environment.

The October 22 to 28, 2006 edition of The Weekly Squeak Summary is now available. It is a summary of developments within the Squeak community. Squeak is a portable, open-source Smalltalk implementation and environment.

It has been announced that the the next Toronto Smalltalk User Group workshop meeting will be held on November 2, 2006.

The October 15 to 21, 2006 edition of The Weekly Squeak Summary is now available. It is a summary of developments within the Squeak community. Squeak is a portable, open-source Smalltalk implementation and environment.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Ottawa Smalltalk Users Group will be held on November 1, 2006.

GNU Smalltalk 2.2b has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable, open-source Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release includes: preliminary support for x86 Darwin, support for newer releases of GTK+, other changes, and bugfixes.

The October 8 to 14, 2006 edition of The Weekly Squeak Summary is now available. It is a summary of developments in the Squeak community. Squeak is a portable, open-source Smalltalk implementation and environment.

It has been announced that a Smalltalk UK meeting will be held on October 20, 2006.

GNU Smalltalk 2.2a has been released. GNU Smalltalk is a portable Smalltalk-80 implementation.

This release candidate includes: Unicode support improvements, speedups, a new lazy collections example, plus other changes and bugfixes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Toronto Smalltalk User Group will be held on October 5, 2006.

It has been announced that Sun Microsystems has released the source code to the Strongtalk virtual machine under a Berkeley-style license. Strongtalk is a Smalltalk implementation with an emphasis on performance, and also including a strong, static type system.

Exupery 0.09 has been released. Exupery is a bytecode compiler for Squeak. Squeak is a portable Smalltalk implementation.

This release includes dynamically inlined primitives, and bugfixes.

It has been announced that a Smalltalk Party will be held in Paris, France on November 25, 2006.