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The next release of Cincom Smalltalk is scheduled for November - users of VisualWorks and Store are going to see a few changes that require changes to the database schema. What does that mean? Well, it depends on what version of VisualWorks you use. If you start with the upcoming 7.3 release, there will be code in the system that will prompt you to run the update - after which VW 7.3 will communicate with the repository just fine. What about older versions of VisualWorks? if you do upgrade the repository, previous releases will not (initially) be able to connect to it. We will be providing some patches (in the form of file-ins) which will allow older versions of VW with Store to connect and work with the repository. What are these changes about?

• Support for external files. This release of Store will allow you to push files directly into the repository with your code. This will be useful for making sure that files dependent on a specific version of your code (images, ssp files, etc) will be managed with your code
• Support for searching package properties.
• We are working on a project we call SmalltalkDoc, which will make it easier to produce documentation directly from Smalltalk code. A few changes were required in order to fully support this.

All of this information will be available in the release notes when we ship the product - feel free to contact me with questions in the meantime.