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| Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #41 ("Dahut") | ||
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| 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>. | ||
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| 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>. | ||
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| 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". | ||
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| Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this | ||
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| * added a call counter for builtins in Perl 6-level subroutines | ||
| * gcd (greatest common divisor) and lcm (largest common multiple) operators | ||
| * implemented Int.base | ||
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| For a more detailed list of changes, see "docs/ChangeLog". | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| The following people contributed to this release: | ||
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| Patrick R. Michaud, Moritz Lenz, Jonathan Scott Duff, Tadeusz Sośnierz, | ||
| Carl Masak, Solomon Foster, bacek | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Have fun! |
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| Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #42 ("Bruxelles") | ||
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| On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the | ||
| June 2011 release of Rakudo Perl #42 "Bruxelles". Rakudo is an | ||
| implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see | ||
| <http://www.parrot.org>). The tarball for the June 2011 release | ||
| is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads>. | ||
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| 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>. | ||
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| The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each release | ||
| named after a Perl Mongers group. The June 2011 release is code named | ||
| "Bruxelles". | ||
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| DON'T PANIC: Browsing the change log below, it might appear | ||
| as though not much Rakudo development is taking place. Nearly | ||
| all of the development activity is now occurring in the "nom" | ||
| branch of the Rakudo repository (over 500 commits since the 2011.05 | ||
| release). This new branch will shortly become the mainline branch | ||
| from which monthly releases are made, and already contains many | ||
| important bugfixes and performance improvements. | ||
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| Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring in the | ||
| master branch with this release include: | ||
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| * Fixed a bug with &infix:<=> when used in multiple assignments to | ||
| aggregate elements. | ||
| * Improved parrot register handling for more efficient code. | ||
| * Added take-rw and return-rw functions. | ||
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| For a more detailed list of changes, see "docs/ChangeLog". | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| The following people contributed to this release: | ||
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| Patrick R. Michaud, Moritz Lenz, Martin Berends, Tadeusz Sośnierz, | ||
| JD Horelick, and others. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| The next release of Rakudo (#43) is scheduled for July 21, 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. | ||
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| Have fun and don't forget your towel! |
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| Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #43 ("Beijing") | ||
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| On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the | ||
| July 2011 release of Rakudo Perl #43 "Beijing". Rakudo is an | ||
| implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see | ||
| <http://www.parrot.org>). The tarball for the July 2011 release | ||
| is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads>. | ||
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| 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>. | ||
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| The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each release | ||
| named after a Perl Mongers group. The July 2011 release is code named | ||
| "Beijing" after the host of the Beijing Perl Workshop 2011, which featured | ||
| several Perl 6 related talks. | ||
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| This will be the last compiler release made from the current "master" | ||
| branch of Rakudo. For the past several months, Rakudo compiler | ||
| development has primarily occurred in the "nom" branch of the | ||
| Rakudo repository (over 1200 commits since the 2011.05 release). | ||
| Shortly after this release, the "nom" branch will become the new | ||
| "master" branch and will be the source for future releases, | ||
| including the 2011.08 release. We expect there will be several | ||
| releases in the near future -- watch http://rakudo.org/ for | ||
| details. | ||
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| Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring in the | ||
| master branch with this release include: | ||
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| * Fix bug in exponentation of negative numbers | ||
| * Fix build on systems with little RAM | ||
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| For a more detailed list of changes, see "docs/ChangeLog". | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| The following people contributed to this release: | ||
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| Moritz Lenz, Patrick R. Michaud, atrodo, Solomon Foster, bacek and others. | ||
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| 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. | ||
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| Rakudo has traditionally released two days after each Parrot | ||
| monthly release. Because the new version of the compiler has | ||
| additional dependencies beyond Parrot, starting in August 2011 | ||
| we will make releases sometime in the week following each monthly | ||
| Parrot release. (Parrot releases occur on the third Tuesday of | ||
| each month.) Thus the next regular release of Rakudo will occur | ||
| sometime before August 23, 2011. We also expect to have additional | ||
| "pre-release" versions of Rakudo and Rakudo Star prior to that date. | ||
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| A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2011 | ||
| is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. | ||
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