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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #41 ("Dahut")
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the
May 2011 release of Rakudo Perl #41 "Dahut". Rakudo is an
implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see
<http://www.parrot.org>). The tarball for the May 2011 release
is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads>.
Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star distribution --
it's announcing a new release of the compiler only. For the latest
Rakudo Star release, see <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each release
named after a Perl Mongers group. The May 2011 release is code named
"Dahut".
Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this
release include:
* added a call counter for builtins in Perl 6-level subroutines
* gcd (greatest common divisor) and lcm (largest common multiple) operators
* implemented Int.base
For a more detailed list of changes, see "docs/ChangeLog".
The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on
Parrot, the Perl 6 test suite and the specification.
The following people contributed to this release:
Patrick R. Michaud, Moritz Lenz, Jonathan Scott Duff, Tadeusz Sośnierz,
Carl Masak, Solomon Foster, bacek
If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on
the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
The next release of Rakudo (#42) is scheduled for June 23, 2011.
A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2011 is
available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo
development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.
Have fun!