TruffleSqueak 25.0.1

Release Notes

• Built on and compatible with GraalVM for JDK 25.0.1
• Speed up becomeForward: with forwarding pointers (f5a503d)
• Implement process preemption yields (5cd14a6)
• Revise and extend InterpreterProxy (dc5cd4d)
• Drop LargeIntegerObject (9e58f1f), as well as FrameMarker and SenderChainLink (09f7aec)
• Various bug fixes and improvements (e.g., 6fde47d, f4301ce, a406f7c, f95edbe, 544883f, 716f3d7, and 1b2c708)

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	24.2.2...25.0.1
TruffleSqueak image	24.2.2-image...25.0.1-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	24.2.2-image-awfy...25.0.1-image-awfy

Standalone Downloads

Platform
Linux (aarch64)
Linux (amd64)
macOS (aarch64) †
macOS (amd64) †
Windows (amd64)

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† If you are using macOS Catalina or later, you may need to remove the quarantine attribute from the download artifacts before you can unpack and use them. To do this, run the following command on the downloaded file:

$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/trufflesqueak-<version>-darwin-<architecture>.tar.gz

TruffleSqueak 24.2.2

Release Notes

• Built on and compatible with GraalVM for JDK 24.0.2
• Ephemeron support (#188)
• ObjectGraphUtils traversal optimizations for faster becomeForward:, allInstances, et al. (#195)
• Support for virtually infinite call stacks (#186)
• Bump march to x86-64-v2 and armv8.1-a (4bbf66a)
• Add support for -- as image args separator (22a750a)
• Various bug fixes and improvements (e.g., 5e3fdea, 560b015, 6ec4e8a, 6c465a0, 7cff18f, a9e7e8c, 6b0c334, da892a9, #194, d28b8a0, and #200)

New Contributors

• @Sabine-Schnabeltier made their first contribution in #181

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	24.1.2...24.2.2
TruffleSqueak image	24.1.2-image...24.2.2-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	24.1.2-image-awfy...24.2.2-image-awfy

Standalone Downloads

Platform
Linux (aarch64)
Linux (amd64)
macOS (aarch64) †
macOS (amd64) †
Windows (amd64)

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† If you are using macOS Catalina or later, you may need to remove the quarantine attribute from the download artifacts before you can unpack and use them. To do this, run the following command on the downloaded file:

$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/trufflesqueak-<version>-darwin-<architecture>.tar.gz

TruffleSqueak 24.1.2

Release Notes

• Compatible with GraalVM for JDK 23.0.2
• Speed up image loading (0ae803a and 4ce9317)
• Support primitiveDoMixedArithmetic (21cd9ed)
• Extend interop with BigInteger, meta parents, and readBuffer (5ae9534 and 4e1c15e)
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements (e.g., c92e331, 29bd189, fcd8e8c, and d209eff)

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	24.0.2...24.1.2
TruffleSqueak image	24.0.0-image...24.1.2-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	24.0.0-image-awfy...24.1.2-image-awfy

Standalone Downloads

Platform
Linux (aarch64)
Linux (amd64)
macOS (aarch64) †
macOS (amd64) †
Windows (amd64)

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† If you are using macOS Catalina or later, you may need to remove the quarantine attribute from the download artifacts before you can unpack and use them. To do this, run the following command on the downloaded file:

$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/trufflesqueak-<version>-darwin-<architecture>.tar.gz

24.0.2

Release Notes

• Compatible with GraalVM for JDK 22.0.2
• Implement InterpreterProxy #175 (thanks to @DieKautz and @MariusDoe)
• Introduce trufflesqueak-polyglot-get (a4d578a and 7636483)
• Check for interrupts in trivial loops (6ca99a5)
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements (e.g., c773884, c06fcd1, 1daead2, and 7954034)

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	23.1.0...24.0.2
TruffleSqueak image	23.1.0-image...24.0.0-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	23.1.0-image-awfy...24.0.0-image-awfy

Standalone Downloads

Platform
Linux (aarch64)
Linux (amd64)
macOS (aarch64) †
macOS (amd64) †
Windows (amd64)

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† If you are using macOS Catalina or later, you may need to remove the quarantine attribute from the download artifacts before you can unpack and use them. To do this, run the following command on the downloaded file:

$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/trufflesqueak-<version>-darwin-<architecture>.tar.gz

23.1.0

Release Notes

• Compatible with GraalVM for JDK 21
• Add JVM standalones for all platforms and native standalone for Windows (7103040 and 2192bc7)
• Revise and fix configuration for Oracle GraalVM (152813e)
• Fix crash on start on macOS (4afbdb1 and 78058e5)
• Fix CallTargetBrowser (2224687 and 22da80b)

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	23.0.1...23.1.0
TruffleSqueak image	23.0.1-image...23.1.0-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	23.0.1-image-awfy...23.1.0-image-awfy

Standalone Downloads

Platform
Linux (aarch64)
Linux (amd64)
macOS (aarch64) †
macOS (amd64) †
Windows (amd64)

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† If you are using macOS Catalina or later, you may need to remove the quarantine attribute from the download artifacts before you can unpack and use them. To do this, run the following command on the downloaded file:

$ sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/trufflesqueak-<version>-darwin-<architecture>.tar.gz

23.0.1

Release Notes

• Compatible with GraalVM for JDK 17.0.8 and GraalVM for JDK 20.0.2
• Build standalones with Oracle GraalVM (cc77afa)
• Add support for Squeak/Smalltalk 6.0 release (c23e1e7 and 7c9697b)
• Drop JDK 11 support (8565f2f) and add JDK 20 builds (ce50156)
• Add support for bytecode OSR (5ae54a4)
• Use max stack depth to determine number of frame slots to improve memory usage (7907cfa)
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements (e.g., 7492ef8, 010646f, 099c1fc, 43d659c, and 8150566)

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	22.3.0...23.0.1
TruffleSqueak image	22.3.0-image...23.0.1-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	22.3.0-image-awfy...23.0.1-image-awfy

Quick Install via SDKMAN! and GraalVM Updater

$ sdk install java 17.0.8-graal # and make it the default $JAVA_HOME
$ $JAVA_HOME/bin/gu -C https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/main/gu-catalog.properties install smalltalk
$ $JAVA_HOME/bin/trufflesqueak

Standalone Downloads

TruffleSqueak 22.3.0

Release Notes

• Compatible with GraalVM CE 22.3.0
• Add JDK 19 builds (23e8955) and ship TruffleSqueak standalones for Linux (dba8c34)
• TruffleSqueak is now built on Ubuntu 20.04 (68172f0)
• Store hash and mark bit in one field to further reduce memory footprint (a4b4aed)
• Revise classTable handling (af8564a) and image reading (1cd3049)
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements (e.g., fddca4e, 28a2ce9, cb038ba, and 1e77c80)

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	22.2.0...22.3.0
TruffleSqueak image	22.2.0-image...22.3.0-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	22.2.0-image-awfy...22.3.0-image-awfy

Quick Install via GraalVM Updater

$ bash <(curl -sL https://get.graalvm.org/jdk) graalvm-ce-java17-22.3.0
$ # Follow instructions to add GraalVM to $PATH
$ gu -C https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/main/gu-catalog.properties install smalltalk
$ trufflesqueak

Standalone Downloads

TruffleSqueak 22.2.0

Release Notes

• Compatible with GraalVM CE 22.2.0
• Add support for the new Squeak/Smalltalk 6.0 release (details in #159) (e.g., 10388ec, a068eca, and 34ed38e)
• Build TruffleSqueak Native on JDK11 and with AWT backend (works on Linux and Windows) (54c7935)
• Downgrade and pin build environments to provide compatibility with older versions of Linux, macOS, and Windows (828d656)
• Backport macOS fix for #168 (3b717b9)
• Improve SqueakSSL plugin (thanks to @psvensson!) (e.g., 4249738 and ca86bb4)
• Fix Smalltalk version of CD benchmark (8985802)
• Various bug fixes and performance improvements (e.g., d516181, 0a9c853, ac1c1c5, 23e54fb)

Component	Details
TruffleSqueak virtual machine	22.1.0...22.2.0
TruffleSqueak image	22.1.0-image...22.2.0-image
AWFY benchmarks for TruffleSqueak image	22.1.0-image-awfy...22.2.0-image-awfy

Quick Install via GraalVM Updater

$ gu -C https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/main/gu-catalog.properties install smalltalk
$ $GRAALVM_HOME/bin/trufflesqueak

22.1.0

Release Notes

• Compatible with GraalVM CE 22.1.0
• TruffleSqueak now supports Apple Silicon and native mode on all platforms. Native mode is TruffleSqueak AOT-compiled with GraalVM Native Image and can be enabled with the --native option (requires SDL2). (8e33516 and 1508238)
• Rename default branch to main (2d58da5)
• Add ability to access language classes (a289d9d and e1296bf)
• Run aarch64 builds on self-hosted runners (c56b7f3)
• Use new quick build mode of GraalVM Native Image for development (51e9ed2)
• Various performance improvements and memory footprint tweaks (e.g., bdf4726, 782e95b, 7b99bfa, e905b5d, and d68f905)
• Various cleanups and bug fixes (e.g., b83ffbc, b22ac1b, 8197d00, b6928ab, f75d54a, and 5759737)

All VM-side changes: 22.0.0...22.1.0
All image-side changes: 22.0.0-image...22.1.0-image

Quick Install via GraalVM Updater

$ gu -C https://raw.githubusercontent.com/hpi-swa/trufflesqueak/main/gu-catalog.properties install smalltalk
$ $GRAALVM_HOME/bin/trufflesqueak

22.0.0

• Compatible with GraalVM CE 22.0.0.2
• Add preliminary support for Cuis-Smalltalk (1a1acf4, 34d5060, bd958df, and c46eafb)
• Allow users to choose image on first launch (c4391a2)
• Migrate to new index-based Frame API (2e456e1)
• Report loop counts in interpreter and first tier (afbf57b)
• Fix off-by-one error in DeflatePlugin (5b6066b)
• Add support for keyboard down and up events (ba75056)
• Various bug fixes and improvements (e.g. 424b091, f154536, b267a16, and 8cfb5df)

All VM-side changes: 21.3.0...22.0.0
All image-side changes: 21.3.0-image...22.0.0-image