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[announce/2015.04.md] add a list of changes
Note that this is a subset of all the things from the ChangeLog.
This month there were a lot of things, and we show the most notable
ones.
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Some of the changes in this release are outlined below:

TBD
* Installation directory layout changed: it now uses $PREFIX/share instead of
$PREFIX/languages
* "0" (0 as a string) is now True, no special-casing anymore
* an Int() coercion type in a multi now creates two candidates: Any and Int
* numerous small fixes
* native arrays
* 'bit' and 'byte' native types
* starts-with/substr-eq/ends-with for comparing strings inside other strings
* basic implementation of Uni, NFC, NFD, NFKC, and NFKD on Moar backend
* where constraints on variable and attribute declarations
* 'is rw' parameters implemented for native subs (they get passed as a pointer)
* Str.codes/chars/uc/lc/tc/tclc/ord/flip about 25% faster
* many smaller speedups

These are only some of the changes in this release. For a more
detailed list, see "docs/ChangeLog".
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