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| %% title: Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2019.03 | ||
| %% date: 2019-03-30 | ||
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| On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce | ||
| the March 2019 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production | ||
| distribution of Rakudo. The tarball for this release is available from | ||
| <https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/>. | ||
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| Binaries for macOS and Windows (64 bit) are also available at the same | ||
| location. | ||
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| This release of Rakudo Star implements | ||
| Perl v6.d. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend (all module tests pass | ||
| on supported platforms). Currently, Star is on a quarterly release cycle. | ||
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| Please note that this release of Rakudo Star is not fully functional with the | ||
| JVM backend from the Rakudo compiler. Please use the MoarVM backend only. | ||
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| We make a distinction between the language "Perl 6" and specific | ||
| implementations of the language such as "Rakudo". | ||
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| This Star release includes [release 2019.03.1] of the [Rakudo compiler], | ||
| version 2019.03 [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and other | ||
| resources collected from the community. | ||
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| [release 2019.03.1]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rakudo/rakudo/2019.03.1/docs/announce/2019.03.1.md | ||
| [Rakudo compiler]: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo | ||
| [MoarVM]: https://moarvm.org/ | ||
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| The Rakudo compiler changes since the last Rakudo Star release are now listed | ||
| in "2018.11.md", "2018.12.md" and "2019.03.md" under the "rakudo/docs/announce" directory of | ||
| the source distribution. | ||
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| This Rakudo Star release comes with an additional JS backend. | ||
| See `6pad` project at <https://perl6.github.io/6pad/> for running Perl 6 code | ||
| directly in your browser. | ||
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| Important Rakudo bug fixes are now listed at <https://alerts.perl6.org/> | ||
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| Also see the Rakudo Star errata at <https://perl6.org/downloads/> | ||
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| Deprecation: | ||
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| * LWP::Simple is deprecated and will be removed. Please use "HTTP::UserAgent". | ||
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| Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star: | ||
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| * Pod-To-HTML now depends on p6-pod-load | ||
| * tap-harness6 and app-prove6 are two separate modules now | ||
| * zef: version 0.7.1 | ||
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| There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet | ||
| handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases. | ||
| Some of the not-quite-there features include: | ||
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| * advanced macros | ||
| * some bits of Synopsis 9 and 11 | ||
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| There is an online resource at <http://perl6.org/compilers/features> | ||
| that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo's | ||
| backends and other Perl 6 implementations. | ||
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| In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the | ||
| programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many | ||
| that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are | ||
| welcomed at <https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues> | ||
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| See <https://perl6.org/> for links to much more information, including | ||
| documentation, example code, tutorials, presentations, reference materials, | ||
| design documents, and other supporting resources. Tutorials are available | ||
| under the "docs" directory in the release tarball. | ||
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| The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for | ||
| making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see | ||
| <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the <perl6-compiler@perl.org> | ||
| mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. |