January 19, 2005
The website has been redesigned for easier reading and access, and the descriptions reworded for succinctness and clarity. Progress is being made on the code front, with a new release soon!
October 31, 2004
Release 0.3.1 is now in the downloads area. It provides a number of important bug-fixes and minor features that should enhance usability. We urge anyone using the 0.3 release to begin using 0.3.1 instead.
August 8, 2004
We are fully bootstrapped! The much-anticipated release 0.3 is out, featuring a tiny VM buildable with C-toolchain and many simple optimizations, and kernel images from which work can be done. Again, many bugs were fixed and libraries enhanced. See the downloads area and announcement for details.
May 1, 2004
Lee Salzman has replaced his short paper on PMD with a full thesis, to complete his graduation requirements, with many corrections, clarifications and experience reports added. Also there is a wonderful slide presentation explaining the benefits of PMD in laymen's terms. See also the recommended reading area of the wiki.
March 27, 2004
Hey, folks, we've been Slashdotted. This is not our doing, and we are not at a stage where we're offering a real tutorial or a representative release configuration. So don't believe your first impressions.
January 4, 2004
Release 0.2.1 is out, in the usual place. This is a maintenance update, consisting of many bug-fixes and polishing of the libraries, as well as new work which is not yet complete towards 0.3. See downloads area and announcement for details.
December 5, 2003
Release 0.2 is official. See the downloads area for details. Source is provided, but no binaries. This release is the last major point release for Slate under Lisp. Full details are provided in the mailing list announcement.
July 29, 2003
Release 0.1 is official. We will provide it in the downloads area initially as a source-based archive. The latest snapshots will be available separately.
July 20, 2003
The Programmer's Manual is now web-browsable.
July 16, 2003
Slate was presented at the Smalltalk Solutions 2003 conference. It was received fairly well. We are hosting a web-formatted version of the slides. A short report is available from the mailing list.
June 1, 2003
A Swiki has been set up for documentation and tutorials and anything else related to Slate.
May 28, 2003
Slate bootstrapping is in progress. Also, an Emacs editing and interaction mode is available in the distribution.