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bump Rakudo Star to 2016.07
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stmuk committed Jul 22, 2016
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<h3 class="trim-top">Rakudo Star</h3>
<p> Rakudo Star 2016.04 is a useful and usable production distribution of
<p> Rakudo Star 2016.07 is a useful and usable production distribution of
Perl 6 which supports the latest Christmas Perl 6 (6.c language
version).<p>

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<p>A quick start for Linux/Mac/BSD/Cygwin etc. follows:</p>

<pre>% wget http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2016.04.tar.gz
% tar xfz rakudo-star-2016.04.tar.gz
% cd rakudo-star-2016.04
# perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --prefix /opt/rakudo-star-2016.04
<pre>% wget http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/rakudo-star-2016.07.tar.gz
% tar xfz rakudo-star-2016.07.tar.gz
% cd rakudo-star-2016.07
# perl Configure.pl --gen-moar --prefix /opt/rakudo-star-2016.07
# make install</pre>

<h3 class="trim-top">Rakudo Star 2016.04 Errata</h3>
<h3 class="trim-top">Rakudo Star 2016.07 Errata</h3>

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<li>Windows port: NativeCall modules may not work depending on compiler (differs depending on whether mingw or MSVC and whether 32 or 64 bit). Also panda needs to be invoked like "panda --notests install Zef" to work since it doesn't call prove correctly. That example also installs a panda alternative called zef which should fully work.</li>
<li>Windows port: NativeCall modules may not work depending on compiler (differs depending on whether mingw or MSVC and whether 32 or 64 bit). Also panda needs to be invoked like "panda --notests install Zef" to work since it may notcall prove correctly. That example also installs a panda alternative called zef which should fully work.</li>
<li>Linux and Mac ports: no specific issues known currently</li>
<li>All ports: DBIish should be upgraded ("panda install DBIish") for significant performance increases.</li>
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<h3 class="panel-title">Perl&nbsp;6 Language Version 6.c and Perl&nbsp;6 Rakudo Star 2016.04 Released!</h3>
<h3 class="panel-title">Perl&nbsp;6 Language Version 6.c and Perl&nbsp;6 Rakudo Star 2016.07 Released!</h3>
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<p style="font-size: 81%">Read the <a href="http://rakudo.org/2016/04/25/announce-rakudo-star-release-2016-04/">Rakudo Star 2016.04 release announcement</a>,
<p style="font-size: 81%">Read the <a href="http://rakudo.org/2016.07/25/announce-rakudo-star-release-2016.07/">Rakudo Star 2016.07 release announcement</a>,
<a href="https://perl6advent.wordpress.com/2015/12/24/an-unexpectedly-long-expected-party/">Larry Wall's poetic summary of the past 15 years</a>, or <a href="/downloads">get Rakudo Star and try out Perl&nbsp;6</a>!</p>
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