From bd891a5846a5214481d60ceb32103366ac82d1fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Esteban Lorenzano <estebanlm@netc.eu>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 18:06:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] add changes highlights

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diff --git a/src/NewTools-WelcomeBrowser/StWelcomeBrowser.class.st b/src/NewTools-WelcomeBrowser/StWelcomeBrowser.class.st
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--- a/src/NewTools-WelcomeBrowser/StWelcomeBrowser.class.st
+++ b/src/NewTools-WelcomeBrowser/StWelcomeBrowser.class.st
@@ -69,7 +69,69 @@ StWelcomeBrowser >> addPresenter: aPresenter [
 { #category : #'accessing - contents' }
 StWelcomeBrowser >> changesContent [
 
-	^ 'TODO'
+	^ '# Pharo 11 changes overview
+
+A large international community of developers worked hard to prepare a new release of the Pharo platform.
+
+## Highlights
+
+### Tools
+- Iceberg (the git client/vcs control tool) has received a lot of tweaks and fixes to work better with github and other remote control files.
+- The debugger now incorporates a lot tweaks and notably the capability of adding bindings in the context interation model.
+- TimeProfiler (the profiling tool) has a new UI, and incorporates also the alternative Andreas Profiler.
+- DrTests (the Test Runner alternative) has been updated to latest Spec and make usable again.
+- The is a new new implementation of rewrite tools 
+- There is a new tool: The Document Browser, which allow the visualisation of microdown (markdown compatible) documents placed on the web or locally. 
+- Calypso (the System Browser) has incorporated some interesting mini tools: package dependency and baseline visualisation.
+- New and improved Inspectors, notably for AST/Blocks/IR but also a lot others.
+- All versions of NewTools, Spec, Roassal and Microdown have been updated with a lot of bugfixes. 
+
+### System 
+- Slots now have a Setting for unrestricted definitions 
+- Slots now allow more complex Slot defininions (cascade)
+- Compiler support for full blocks without outer context
+- enable optionInlineTimesRepeat and optionInlineRepeat by default
+- Adding an API in OCBytecodeToASTCache, RBMethodNode and RBBlockNode to map AST nodes to a pc range
+- add a "parse plugin" mechanism to OpalCompiler
+- Improve faulty parsing
+- lots of bugfixes and cleanups
+- Constant Block Closures are created at compile time (speeds up both creating and evaluation of [#blockslikethis])
+- Support for ephemerons
+   
+### Virtual machine
+- Ephemerons Production Ready (large amount of ephemerons supported, leaks fixed, support for old finalization, tests).
+- Improving the Memory Map of the VM (Using constant positions)
+- Initial support for Single-Instruction Multiple-Data (SIMD)
+    - Initialization of new objects using SIMD (ARM64)
+    - Adding Bytecode Extensions to support SIMD instructions
+    - Adding Vector Registers
+    - Vector Register bytecodes
+- Third-Party Dependency Update (Newer versions, Graphic Libraries using Hardware Acceleration)
+- Fixing errors and simplification of primitives.
+- Clean Ups: Remove lots of old code, notably old experiments, dead code and unused code like newspeak or plugins. 
+
+## Status
+Current Pharo development status.
+1. 309 forks on GitHub
+2. 972 issues closed since Pharo 10
+3. 1412 Pull requests processed since Pharo 10, not counting separately managed projects:
+- [http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools](http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools)
+- [http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser](http://github.com/pharo-spec/NewTools-DocumentBrowser)
+- [http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec](http://github.com/pharo-spec/Spec)
+- [http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg](http://github.com/pharo-vcs/Iceberg)
+- [http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3](http://github.com/ObjectProfile/Roassal3)
+- [http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown](http://github.com/pillar-markup/Microdown)
+- [http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments](http://github.com/pillar-markup/BeautifulComments)
+- [http://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm](http://github.com/pharo-project/opensmalltalk-vm)
+
+## Contributors
+We always say Pharo is yours. It is yours because we made it for you, but most importantly because it is made by the invaluable contributions of our great community (yourself).  
+A large community of people from all around the world contributed to Pharo 11.0 by making pull requests, reporting bugs, participating in discussion threads, providing feedback etc., etc., etc.  
+Thank you all for your contributions.  
+
+## Changelog
+
+The complete list of changes can be see (in *per week* basis) [here](https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo-changelogs/tree/master/weekly). '
 ]
 
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