Pharo3 was released in March 2014. Not even a year later, we are close to the release of Pharo4.

This talk will give an overview of the changes and improvements done and show some demos of new functionality. Again, Pharo4 is just a small step: after the release in the Spring of 2015, we will start to iteratet on Pharo5. I will present the roadmap of what we will work on in Pharo5.

Bio Marcus Denker is a permanent researcher (CR1, with tenure) at INRIA Lille - Nord Europe. Before, he was a postdoc at the PLEIAD lab/DCC University of Chile and the Software Composition Group, University of Bern. His research focuses on reflection and meta-programming for dynamic languages. He is an active participant in the Squeak and Pharo open source communities for many years. Marcus Denker received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bern/Switzerland in 2008 and a Dipl.-Inform. (MSc) from the University of Karlsruhe/Germany in 2004. He is a member of ACM, GI, and IEEE and a board-member of ESUG.