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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)
We will have more details on ObjectStudio 8 as initial beta testing happens
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