Cincom Smalltalk Spring 2007

This page details what we intend to release in late January, 2007. Note that some of these details might change over time - time pressure and customer/prospect interest has a way of changing the best laid plans.

ObjectStudio

• ObjectStudio 8 Beta Release
• ObjectStudio running on the VW VM
• Bug fixes for ObjectStudio 7.1.2 (7.x existing VM path)

VisualWorks

• VM
• Support for intel based Mac OS X (may be beta)
• New, more stable PPC Mac OS X VM (may be beta)
• Loadable GUI on PPC/AIX & HPPA/HPUX
• 64 bit DLLCC on all supported 64 bit platforms)
• Base System
• Fix for font lookup issues that impact some Linux distributions
• Threaded COM Support
• Win CE support folded into the base system
• Continued work on simplifying the deployment of Smalltalk applications
• Delivery of a smaller base.im
• More Locales - Chinese, possibly others
• Store
• Support for Overrides in Bundles available
• load order support in future
• Atomic Source Loading (shadow compiling) available, but off by default
• Improvements to the Merge Tool
• Tools
• Continued work on unifying the tools sub-strata for inspectors, debugger, and browsers
• XSchema moved to supported state
• Security
• (deferred) Ciphers - CTR Mode, RSA-PKCS1v2 padding
• OpenSSL wrapper - add RSA, DSA, DH (preview)
• X.509
• certificate creation APIs
• (deferred) more extensions
• SSL
• (deferred) TLS v 1.1/1.2
• (deferred) Pluggable APIs for the OpenSSL wrapper
• ASN.1: support for Unicode string types
• Net Clients
• new fully implemented SMTPClient. The client supports login and plain authentication.
• POP3Client and SMTPClient support secure connection (SSL)
• HttpClient: improved downloading of large attachments (directly into files)
• Smalltalk to Smalltalk (Opentalk)
• bi-directional connections (two-way message traffic on the same connection)
• firewall/NAT traversal (linking brokers to external IP addresses)
• (deferred) secure connections (SSL)
• Web Services
• Support for creating Soap header processors in Wsdl Wizard
• Many smaller improvements, for example:
• Support for multiple bindings by one broker on Opentalk-SOAP server
• Improved authentication handling by the WsdlClient and SOAP Request
• Provide access to SOAP headers from service operation methods
• Improved support for incremental updating of client/server code
• Pollock (Widgetry) - see the Roadmap for details
• Widgetry 8.1.0 with new coordinate system in preview
• Deliver Feature Set 3
• Web Toolkit
• Scripting (startup) support
• Better headless operation
• Browser (Web) Plugin
• Preview for IE/Mozilla/Firefox on Win platforms
• CAB installer support for IE
• XPI installer support for Mozilla/Firefox
• GLORP
• Move to supported state in the next (post 7.5) release
• Database
• Sybase 15 support
• SQL Server 2005 Support
• Oracle timestamp data type support
• ODBC Connection Pooling
• Unicode ODBC Support
• MySQL Support (Preview)
• Connects for 64 bit platforms