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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #18 ("Pittsburgh")
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
the May 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #18 "Pittsburgh".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the June 2009 release is available from
http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .
Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the
frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue
to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain
the latest source directly from the main repository at github.
More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo .
Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named
after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Pittsburgh", which
is the host for YAPC|10 (YAPC::NA 2009) [2] and the Parrot Virtual Machine
Workshop [3]. Pittsburgh.pm has also sponsored hackathons for Rakudo
Perl as part of the 2008 Pittsburgh Perl Workshop [4].
In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes
and improvements:
* Rakudo is now passing NN,NNN spectests, an increase of NNN
passing tests since the May 2009 release. With this release
Rakudo is now passing NN% of the available spectest suite.
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The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible. 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 (#19) is scheduled for July 23, 2009.
A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 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!
References:
[1] Parrot, http://parrot.org/
[2] YAPC|10 http://yapc10.org/yn2009/
[3] Parrot Virtual Machine Workshop, http://yapc10.org/yn2009/talk/2045
[4] Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, http://pghpw.org/ppw2008/