GemBuilder for Smalltalk/VW Release Notes

1. Release Notes for GemBuilder for Smalltalk 8.5

Supported Platforms and Versions

Changes and New Features

Support for GemStone/S 64 Bit version 3.6

New Specials added

Performance Improvements

Finding methods in a class

UserProfile edit and SymbolList tool

Bugs Fixed

GbsStackDumper could error and produce incomplete stack dumps

On login, GBS disabled GEM_HALT_ON_ERROR

Unnecessary imports of server special objects

Debugger error on modify server method temp

GBS’s finalizer process did not run on saved and restarted image

Instances of Time are truncated to seconds on replication

NoModificationError on clustering of immutable replicated byte objects

Browse versions errored from a Class Hierarchy browser

Launcher Issues

Launcher menu item Parameters > Copy nonfunctional

Current session not bold in Launcher

X509 sessions display in Launcher without session ID

Inspector issues

Improved handling of failures in inspectors

Some cases of inspector failures due to internal variable naming

Wrong error when connecting class variable connector with unresolved server variable

Unnecessary extra ’class’ in fileout for class method from implementors/senders browsers

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