Merge branch 'master' into coke/rm_pasm

Conflicts:
	MANIFEST
	examples/README

CREDITS

@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ D: typo squisher
 E: yDNA@cpan.org
 
 N: Andrew Whitworth
+D: Product Manager (2.9.0 - current)
 D: Internals development
 D: Documentation
-D: Release manager for 0.8.2, 1.3.0, 1.5.0, 2.4.0, 2.11.0, 3.3.0, 3.10.0 and 4.0.0
+D: Release manager for 0.8.2, 1.3.0, 1.5.0, 2.4.0, 2.11.0, 3.3.0, 3.10.0, 4.0.0 and 4.4.0
 E: wknight8111@gmail.com
 U: Whiteknight
 
@@ -516,6 +517,7 @@ D: various Pynie patches
 N: James E Keenan
 E: jkeenan@cpan.org
 U: jkeenan
+A: kid51
 D: Testing of configuration and build tools; release manager
 W: http://thenceforward.net/parrot/
 S: Brooklyn, NY, USA
@@ -696,7 +698,7 @@ D: clean-ups of compilers/imcc and its documentation.
 D: compilers/pirc and languages/PIR.
 D: various updates to PCT-based languages (C99,Punie,Cardinal,Ecmascript)
 D: languages/json, languages/squaak
-U: kj, kjs
+U: kjs
 E: parrotcode@gmail.com
 
 N: Klāvs Priedītis
@@ -1213,4 +1215,9 @@ N: svn
 U: svn
 E: svn@perl.org
 
+N: Bart Wiegmans
+E: bartwiegmans@gmail.com
+D: mod_parrot
+
+
 =cut

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,36 @@
+2012-06-19    release 4.5.0
+    - Core
+        + Added .write_bytes and .read_bytes methods to FileHandle and Socket
+          PMCs.
+        + Added Parrot_api_set_stdhandle, Parrot_api_new_call_object and
+          Parrot_api_setup_signature functions to the embedding API
+        + Removed the "can" VTABLE
+    - IMCC
+        + Removed .line, .file, setline and setfile directives from IMCC
+    - Documentation
+    - Tests
+    - Community
+
+2012-05-15    release 4.4.0
+    - Core
+        + Most internal calls to libc exit(x) have been replaced with
+          Parrot_x_* API calls or PARROT_FORCE_EXIT
+    - Documentation
+        + 'pdd31_hll.pod' made stable in 'docs/pdds/'.
+        + Updated main 'README' to 'README.pod'
+        + Updated various dependencies, e.g., 'lib/Parrot/Distribution.pm'.
+        + Updated all 'README' files to 'README.pod' files.
+        + Added 'README.pod' files to top-level directories.
+    - Tests
+        + Update various tests to pull from new 'README.pod'
+        + Updated 't/tools/install/02-install_files.t' to pull from new
+          'README.pod'
+    - Community
+    - Platforms
+    - Tools
+        + pbc_merge has been fixed to deduplicate constant strings and
+          merge annotations segments
+
 2012-04-17    release 4.3.0
     - Core
         + Winxed snapshot updated to 1.7.0

MANIFEST.generated

@@ -1,14 +1,14 @@
 # See tools/dev/install_files.pl for documentation on the
 # format of this file.
 # Please re-sort this file after *EVERY* modification
-blib/lib/libparrot.4.3.0.dylib                   [main]lib
+blib/lib/libparrot.4.4.0.dylib                   [main]lib
 blib/lib/libparrot.a                             [main]lib
 blib/lib/libparrot.dylib                         [main]lib
 blib/lib/libparrot.so                            [main]lib
-blib/lib/libparrot.so.4.3.0                      [main]lib
+blib/lib/libparrot.so.4.4.0                      [main]lib
 compilers/data_json/data_json.pbc                [data_json]
 config/gen/call_list/opengl.in                   []
-cygparrot-4.3.0.dll                              [main]bin
+cygparrot-4.4.0.dll                              [main]bin
 docs/ops/bit.pod                                 [doc]
 docs/ops/cmp.pod                                 [doc]
 docs/ops/core.pod                                [doc]