[ANN] Timeline Release Pharo 14

You may have noticed that our usual April–May release did not happen this year.

We wanted to explain why Pharo 14 has been delayed, and why we are still not quite at the point where we want to release it.

There is not much mystery: we got very ambitious about what we wanted to include. We are still finishing a few important pieces that we believe need to be part of this release, as they will provide foundations for the next development cycle.

Here is a non-exhaustive list of what we are aiming to include:

• Massive changes in the VM (v12)
• Migration to SDL3 as the backend
• Alexandria, as a future replacement for Athens
• A Bloc preview — yes!
• Toplo, the new widget set based on Bloc, and a Spec–Toplo preview
• And many other things that are not polished enough yet

So, yes, we are disappointed not to have met our usual release cycle. But we believe the extra time will be worth it — once we get there :)