VAST now officially runs on ARM® v7, v8 processors (32 & 64-bit) with JIT compilation. Various Linux® distros are already supported, and Windows® support is coming in the near future!  

Easily deploy to cloud-based instances using processors like Amazon® AWS' Graviton2, or alternatively deploy to small, single board computers on the edge like a Raspberry Pi®.

With ARM, you can take advantage of deployment targets that tend to be more cost effective and energy efficient than those that are Intel®/AMD®-based.

Unicode can be quite complex, so we set out to create a truly ergonomic Unicode experience for Smalltalk. We went beyond "basic" Unicode support, and instead designed an advanced implementation that focused on "Unicode Correctness" and performance.

For example, all Unicode normalization is handled automatically by default to help prevent silent errors and other issues. VAST's new Unicode strings also maintain full API compatibility with the current String and Character while using a modern, compact UTF-8 representation. Our Unicode library even allows for representational flexibility and bridging to existing string classes through the use of "Views".

To keep these features performant, Unicode strings are optimized at creation (and during usage) through SIMD algorithms, just-in-time optimizations, and copy-on-write methodologies. They provide rapid UTF-8 and ASCII validation, fast string search, and exceptional memory efficiency. In fact, validation can occur at over 20 GB/sec!

See our Unicode documentation for a full review of this libraries' capabilities.

VAST continues to deliver more capabilities for asynchronous programming which can be used to efficiently expand and maintain the most complex systems.

Asynchronous streams provide data and/or events that can be used along with our futures/promises framework.

With asynchronous zones, you can effortlessly control, monitor, and share data between asynchronous activities within your program.

As part of the Unicode support library implementation, workspaces can now treat UTF-8 and CodePage elements within them appropriately and  allow for conversion between the two. As a result, the full Unicode 14 character set can be displayed in workspaces.

As part of the Unicode support library implementation, new object inspectors have been created that provide rich visualizations for Unicode strings, graphemes, and Unicode scalars. Additionally, properties are displayed for each code point from the Unicode character database.

As part of the Unicode support library implementation, the Scintilla-based code editors within VAST now offer support for full-color emoji as well as all other Unicode 14 characters. DirectWrite and GPU acceleration are now used for emoji in the editors.

Windows table control now available for a native look in VAST that provides a great looking widget for row and column data in your application.

Using our asynchronous streams functionality, retrieve large pieces of streamed HTTP content, and asynchronously process these large files in smaller pieces for improved efficiency.

Access and transfer remote files natively and securely from the VAST Platform.

Ensure your application's security is up-to-date and supported with the latest version of OpenSSL®. We provide a high-level object oriented wrapper around OpenSSL that's easy to use, and examples are given for every algorithm we provide. Additionally, our crypto wrapper is backwards compatible with the functionality of 0.9.8 through 1.1.x. 

This updated security framework includes FIPS module support as well as more cryptographic algorithms and SSL modules.

Many new features, improvements, and fixes to Tonel tools are included in the latest release, like better support for cross-dialect migrations, and more configuration options to fine-tune loading.

See the full list on GitHub.