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This week (25/2024) on the Pharo Issue Tracker

Pharo 12

• Backport change of default value for setting #autoSetCanvasScaleFactor to true #16783

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16783

• Remove (wrong) primitive usage #16781

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16781

• [Backport] Port fixes on traits and metaclasses to Pharo 12 #16776

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16776

• Backport use of FormSet for #withCloseBox and #withPinBox on MenuTitleMorph #16774

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16774

• Backport selective removal of entries in #shrinkTo: on FreeTypeCache #16773

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16773

• [P12][Backport] fix #needRequestorScope of StDebuggerContextInteractionModel so that its bindings can be used when evaluating code in the debugger #784

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/784

VM

• New harmonize rule #817

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/817

• Fixing warnings that are errors in newer versions of clang #813

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/813

• Adding an implementation of the aio.c using EPOLL in Linux. #805

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/805

• Ignoring EAGAIN in epoll_wait #818

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-vm/pull/818

Features

• Update roassal to v1.06f #16770

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16770

• Propose a DarkBlueTheme #16777

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16777

• Make setting pages less dense without comments for each setting #772

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/772

Fixes

• test file dialogs returns the selected file #778

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/778

• Revert "Use taskbar icon name for inspector and playground" #779

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/779

• Fix issue when opening custom scope on calypso #783

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/783

• Fix Open Playground menu item hanging the image #787

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/787

• Add back old playground shortcut with deprecation #16788

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16788

• Remove (wrong) primitive usage #16780

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16780

• add missing accessor #1558

https://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec/pull/1558

• adding test to ensure it is possible to recompile code within a bloc with a dead home context twice #723

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/723

Refactoring Engine

• Migrate Refactoring for Generating Equal and Hash Methods #16786

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16786

Cleanup

• Remove call to deprecated Author #83

https://github.com/pharo-vcs/libgit2-pharo-bindings/pull/83

• Remove deprecated classes and methods #758

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/758

• Removing UIMnagaer dependencies from the debugger infrastructure #16015

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16015

• The debugger now delegate UI decisions to the backend provided by its application #667

https://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools/pull/667

• Fix deprecated usage of StInspector #16769

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16769

• taskbarIcon moved to SystemWindow #16792

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16792

• Rename RBNode into ASTNode #16596

https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/16596