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NEWS

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 New in 3.0.0
 - Core
- + Added a new embedding API in "parrot/api.h"
- + Removed autovivification behavior from ResizablePMCArray
- + Packfile PMCs have been refactored and can now generate usable bytecode
- + Packfile manipulation functions now throw exceptions on error instead of
+  + Added a new embedding API in "parrot/api.h"
+  + Removed autovivification behavior from ResizablePMCArray
+  + Packfile PMCs have been refactored and can now generate usable bytecode
+  + Packfile manipulation functions now throw exceptions on error instead of
     printing error details directly to stderr
- + Improved Unicode support for file IO, environment variables, program names,
+  + Improved Unicode support for file IO, environment variables, program names,
     and command-line parameters
+  + Added gdb pretty-printers for Parrot STRINGs and PMCs (gdb 7.2 or later required)
+  + Noticably faster build due to c2str.pl improvements
 - Languages
 - Community
-    + tree-optimization library by Tyler L. Curtis, a GSoC student, joined the nest
+  + tree-optimization library by Tyler L. Curtis, a GSoC student, joined the nest
     and how lives at http://github.com/parrot/tree-optimization
 - Documentation
-    + HTML documentation generation has been rewritten and simplified
-    + New section in docs/project/git_workflow.pod about keeping a fork
-      of parrot.git in sync
-    + Translations of our README in various languages are now in the
-      docs/translation directory
+  + HTML documentation generation has been rewritten and simplified
+  + New section in docs/project/git_workflow.pod about keeping a fork
+    of parrot.git in sync
+  + Translations of our README in various languages are now in the
+    docs/translation directory
 - Tests
-    + Increased test coverage of many core PMCs, dynamic PMCs and dynamic opcodes
-    + Jonathan "Duke" Leto set up Debian Linux x86_64 and sparc32 smokers
-        in the GCC Compile Farm, which continually submit smoke reports with
-        different Configure.pl flags and compilers
+  + Major increases in test coverage of many core PMCs, dynamic PMCs and
+    dynamic opcodes thanks to Google Code-In and the interpid students it
+    attracted
+  + Jonathan "Duke" Leto set up Debian Linux x86_64 and sparc32 smokers
+    in the GCC Compile Farm, which continually submit smoke reports with
+    different Configure.pl flags and compilers
+  + Makefile dependency checking is now tested, resulting in a more reliable
+    parallel build
 
 New in 2.11.0
 - Core