We've decided to start the ball rolling with a beta release for Dolphin 6.1. Unlike our previous beta programmes this one will be public rather than closed, although you will have to have a valid Dolphin Professional license to take part (i.e. Dolphin Community Edition keys will not yet unlock the installer).

The setup program can be downloaded from here and the release notes for the current beta can be found here.

As you'll see, this release offers quite a few bug fixes to 6.02 and a number of enhancements. The latter are things like: better cosmetic appearence under Vista, the ability to save out Idea Space templates and an SUnit Plugin for the Class and System browsers.

Actually, although we've called this a beta, in some ways it's more like an alpha. There are a number of features we'd still like to add to the IDE, particularly in the area of the STS integration and these should appear in the next beta release.

Please use the Dolphin Newsgroup (comp.lang.smalltalk.dolphin) for any discussion about the beta.