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Martin Berends committed Feb 18, 2010
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New in 2010.02 release
+ The branch formerly known as 'ng' becomes the new master branch
+ The previous master branch is now rakudo/alpha
+ The previous master branch is now Rakudo/alpha
+ NQP-RX replaces NQP in the Parrot Compiler Toolkit, enabling the
source code of the compiler to be written in a subset of Perl 6 that
is much more powerful, most importantly with regexes, as the name
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+ The name of the root of the object hierarchy is now Mu
+ The term 'undef' is gone, replaced by Nil, Mu or *.notdef depending on
context
+ Builin class derive from Cool which derives from Any
+ Builtin classes derive from Cool which derives from Any
+ The refactored source code is more compact and more easily extended
+ The number of spectests passed has reduced from a peak of 32731 in
alpha to 24167, because porting the functionality to the new master
alpha to 24563, because porting the functionality to the new master
is still ongoing
+ Release numbering changes from 'dash' to 'dot' delimiter to get on
better with various package management systems
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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #26 ("XXX")
Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #26 ("Amsterdam")

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
February 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #26 "XXX".
February 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #26 "Amsterdam".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the February 2010 release
is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .

Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release
code named after a Perl Mongers group. The February 2010 release
is code named "XXX" for ...
Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named
after a Perl Mongers group. The February 2010 release is code named
"Amsterdam" for the largest chapter of the Dutch Perl Mongers. Perl
development enjoys considerable support from the Netherlands, with
donations from NLNet, and hosting of the feather machines and several
important Perl 6 web domains and sites.

This release is the first release based on the new branch of
Rakudo development begun in October 2009. The branch refactors
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