202312181441

Release Version 2023.12 (for updated Squeak 6.0/5.3 bundles and Cuis 6)

• Fixes file drop from OS into the image on macOS
• Fixes pass-through of command-line arguments on macOS
• Fixes warning about applicationSupportsSecureRestorableState on macOS 12.0+

This is a patch release. Also see the release notes of OSVM Version 2023.

🚧 Compatibility notes

• Pre-built Linux binaries require GLIBC_2.29, which means Ubuntu 20.04 or later
  • For older systems, please build on your own
  • We will happily help out; just ask on the vm-dev mailing list
• On macOS, a restart of the VM is required after installing SqueakFFI for the first time
  • Otherwise, modules and function addresses cannot be loaded

⚠️ Known issues

• On Ubuntu 22.04 within VirtualBox 7.0, screen contents stop refreshing after some keyboard input until mouse cursor is moved again
• On Ubuntu/Linux, many SqueakSSL tests fail on Squeak 6.0+ ... might be an image-related issue w/ old certificates
• Occasional crashes (or lock-ups) on RaspPi4 and RaspPi5; we are investigating
  • The platform subtype can be 'aarch64', which means that (at least in Squeak) the detection of #isLowerPerformance fails and thus lots of tests are timing out. See TestCase >> #defaultTimeout

202311211431

📢 Please use the more recent release candidate OSVM Version 2023.12

Release Candidate Version 2023

• Adds error codes for ImageSegment storage primitive fail
• Adds error codes for primitiveFileClose on Linux, macOS, and Windows
• Adds machine-code primitive for #primitiveHighResClock on 64-bit platforms
• Adds machine-code primitive for #perform:withArguments: (84)
• Adds VM parameter 50 for maxLiteralCountForCompile
• Adds primitive 96 (primitiveObjectsAccessibleFromRoots) to be used on an array of objects; internally part of primitive 98 (primitiveStoreImageSegment)
• Adds support for multi-byte data to ClipboardExtendedPlugin
• Adds support for various data types to ClipboardExtendedPlugin on Windows
• Adds support for UTF8 Unicode to ClipboardExtendedPlugin on Windows
• Adds flag #upscaleDisplayIfHighDPI to be set via command line or stored in image header; true by default
• Adds support for -eventtrace on Linux and Windows
• Fixes memory leak related to scale-factor lookup on Linux (X11)
• Fixes potential GDI leak in getDpiSystem on Windows
• Fixes failure of Spur image segment loading due to not having enough memory
• Fixes path lookup for "." (i.e., current directory) on Windows
• Fixes JIT issue around frameless block activation
• Fixes JIT issue around cache flushing on ARMv8
• Fixes bug in primitive 105 (primitiveSpurStringReplace)
• Fixes bug in SpurSegmentManager
• Fixes bug in BitBlt rgbMul combination
• Fixes structure argument passing for ARMv8 FFI call-outs
• Fixes float conversions for FFI call-outs
• Fixes float arguments for FFI call-outs on RiscV64
• Fixes #become: on compiled methods for Spur flavors
• Fixes jitted #perform: primitive by adding argument-count check
• Fixes MoveCqR on ARMv8 for certain bit patterns (in the JIT)
• Fixes crash on ARMv8 when toggling fail/succeed primitives for mixed mode arithmetic
• Fixes accessor-depth calculation in SocketPlugin and other places
• Fixes type-declaration problem in DeflatePlugin for 64-bit RiscV
• Fixes other issues around SmartSyntaxInterpreterPlugins (e.g., JPEGReadWriter2Plugin, BitBltSimulation, SocketPlugin)
• Updates support for compilation on RiscV64 (including FFI plugin)
• Updates VectorEnginePlugin to 2022-10-28 (89cc00e86...) from Cuis
• Updates BitBltPlugin to be faster for noSource/noHalftone setup
• Updates joystick support on Linux

🚧 Compatibility notes

• Pre-built Linux binaries require GLIBC_2.29, which means Ubuntu 20.04 or later
  • For older systems, please build on your own
  • We will happily help out; just ask on the vm-dev mailing list
• On macOS, a restart of the VM is required after installing SqueakFFI for the first time
  • Otherwise, modules and function addresses cannot be loaded

⚠️ Known issues

• On Ubuntu 22.04 within VirtualBox 7.0, screen contents stop refreshing after some keyboard input until mouse cursor is moved again
• On Ubuntu/Linux, many SqueakSSL tests fail on Squeak 6.0+ ... might be an image-related issue
• On macOS, command-line arguments are not passed to the image (see #668)
  • Fixed via 1b15c7e
• On macOS, file-drop crashes the VM
  • Fixed via cc2dd90
• Crashes on RaspPi4; we are investigating
  • The platform subtype can be 'aarch64', which means that (at least in Squeak) the detection of #isLowerPerformance fails and thus lots of tests are timing out. See TestCase >> #defaultTimeout

202206021410

Release Version 2022.06 (for Squeak 6.0 and updated 5.3 bundles)

• Adds joystick/gamepad support on Linux
• Fixes support for OpenSSL3 on Linux
• Fixes resolution of fully-qualified domain names (FQDNs) longer than 64 characters on Linux

This is a patch release. Also see the release notes of OSVM Version 2022.

⚠️ Known Issues

• Memory leak on X11 (Linux) related to scale-factor lookup
  • 100-200 KiB every 3-6 seconds
  • See issue #642
  • Workaround via environment variable SQUEAK_DISPLAY_PER_MONITOR_SCALE=1
  • Does not affect -headless -vm-display-X11 -headless -nodisplay -vm-display-null (i.e., smalltalkCI is fine)

202205110711

📢 Please use the more recent patch release OSVM Version 2022.06

Release Version 2022

• Adds ARMv8/Aarch64/ARM64 JIT incl. support for Apple M1
• Adds "fast C primitives" via #FastCPrimitiveFlag
• Adds support for catching exceptions in FFI callouts
• Adds #primitiveScreenScaleFactor (for DPI-aware images)
• Adds primitives 568 and 578 complementing 88 (primitiveSuspend)
• Adds #primitiveMultipleBytecodeSetsActive to update image format for SistaV1
• Adds VectorEnginePlugin
• Fixes regressions in ARMv6 support
• Fixes performance regressions of -metal and -opengl backends on macOS
• Fixes -core-graphics backend on macOS
• Fixes Retina scaling on macOS, i.e., support "backing scale factor"
• Fixes primitive 126 to fail on graphics backends w/o composition buffer
• Fixes regressions in vm-display-fbdev on Linux
• Fixes time sync (e.g., for DST) on Windows
• Fixes UDP binding on Windows

⚠️ Known Issues

• No support for OpenSSL3 (e.g., on Ubuntu 22.04)

202204190959

Release Candidate 3

202112201228

Release Candidate 2

202112022203

CogVm source as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.3117

Cog ARMv8: Since id_aa64isar0_el1 is a priviledged instruction use getauxval on
linux to derive the value(s) derived there-from, currenty whether atomic
instructions are available or not. This addresses opensmalltalk-vm Issue #608.

latest-debug-build

CogVM source as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.3470

Implement SmalltalkImage>>maxIdentityHash efficiently in the Cogit.
It's used a lot (e.g. in Dictionary lookup).

Eliminate warnings in computing jump spans on x86_64.

Slang:
Eliminate statements following a return inserted into a block in
optimization up to the next label. Get printing semicolons after
the last label in a block correct. Eliminate a spurious cr in
comments marking the end of inlinings. Further adapt to
Compiler-eem.508. Don't suppress output of comments for
TLabeledCommentNode when sent from TStmtListNode gen loop.

latest-build

Update signing certificates for Squeak

Following up on #579.

latest-assert-build

CogVM source as per VMMaker.oscog-eem.3470

Implement SmalltalkImage>>maxIdentityHash efficiently in the Cogit.
It's used a lot (e.g. in Dictionary lookup).

Eliminate warnings in computing jump spans on x86_64.

Slang:
Eliminate statements following a return inserted into a block in
optimization up to the next label. Get printing semicolons after
the last label in a block correct. Eliminate a spurious cr in
comments marking the end of inlinings. Further adapt to
Compiler-eem.508. Don't suppress output of comments for
TLabeledCommentNode when sent from TStmtListNode gen loop.