Roadmap

https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/amber/releases

Nicolas Petton -- Towards Amber 1.0 http://esug.org/data/ESUG2013/5-Fri/01-Amber/#/home

1.0 release

not released yet.

• Complete new IDE (Helios)
• Stepping debugger
• Fully commented classes across all Amber codebase
• New package framework and commit strategies
• ObjectSpaces, or Environments ?
• SPEC?
• Remote debugger and IDE? (for example working on top of nodejs) ?

0.15+ release

(increased right part of version according to semver)

• estimated around end of Aug 2015
• enhancements for debugger
• ...
• ...

0.15.0 release

• estimated around end of April 2015
• officially stop supporting node 0.8 and stopping 0.8 tests on Travis
• officially start supporting node 0.12 and stopping 0.12 tests on Travis
• reorganization of code - moving between packages, extrecting to contrib libs
• updated documentation
• package / library / load list management made easier and from within IDE
• updated and some more amber-examples for 0.14 (using an external library, Amber Form?)

0.14.2 release, 11 January 2015

• breaking change: removal of most, if not all, deprecations
• includes simple sample app created by init
• legacy IDE removed from core (shift to "amber-attic")
• optional compatibility packs (bower install amber-compat-es5 --save, bower install amber-compat-ie8 --save)
• important: updated examples

0.13.1 release, 10 October 2014

• Reworked cleaner DNU handling in core.
• amber init fully embraced as the way to create new project.
• Helios IDE is extracted and is now a project on its own.
  • It is included as dev-dependency in any new project by default.
• Movable data out of index.html:
  • list of production packages in deploy.js;
  • list of development packages in devel.js;
  • project amd mappings in local.amd.json;
  • libraries' amd mappings in lib_directory.amd.json.
• 'Batteries included' deployment via grunt deploy.
• 0.13.1 because of technical issues w/ 0.13.0 release process.

0.12.6 release, 1 July 2014

....

0.12.1 release, 14 November 2013

• fix an issue in Helios which prevents class definitions from being compiled

0.12.0 release, 12 November 2013

• Helios IDE, beta version
• Use of require [1] to load amber packages in the browser
• Restructuring of boot.js, use of the brickz[2] reconfigurable micro composition system
• Use bower for browser-side dependencies
• Enhanced REPL
• Enhanced comandline compiler

[1] http://requirejs.org/ [2] https://github.com/amber-smalltalk/brikz

0.11.0 release, July 2013

• bug fixes
• CLI improvements
• compiler improvements regarding message send optimisations and super sends
• preview of the next IDE, named Helios
• Amber now also uses a CI server https://travis-ci.org/amber-smalltalk/amber
• Grunt.js based build system updated to version 0.4.x

0.10.0 release, 13 March 2013

• New compiler toolchain
  • Modular
  • Semantic analysis
  • IR representation
  • Better inlining
• More class comments in Kernel
• Async unit tests
• Grunt.js base build system instead of Makefiles

0.9 release, 13 September 2011

• Parser & compiler

  • Allow underscores in method names
  • Dynamic arrays support
  • Dynamic dictionaries support #{'a' -> 1. 'b' -> 2}

• More Unit tests for Kernel

• Class comments for core classes

• ProfStef ported from Pharo

• IDE

  • Working debugger
  • workspace in the inspector

• Website

  • ProfStef lessons
  • new design & name