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Add Changelog entries to release announcement
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coke committed Dec 25, 2015
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Expand Up @@ -71,12 +71,36 @@ and the specification. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see
<http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. A Christmas-based version will
be available soon.

Some of the changes in this release are outlined below:
In addition to being our Christmas release, this is yet another
monthly compiler release; Some of the changes that are new in
release are outlined below:

New in 2015.12:
+ Christmas!
+ Fixed size and multi-dimensional typed and native arrays
+ Greatly overhauled module loading and installation, including handling
precompilation at module installation time in Rakudo
+ while/until loops can now return lists of values
+ We now catch many more kinds of "Useless use of X in sink context"
+ A number of convenient Unicode equivalents were introduced
+ Superscripts can now be used for integer powers
+ Non-digit unicode characters with a numeric value (½ and such) can now be
used for that numeric value
+ There is a new "approximately equal" operator
+ Add support for USAGE argument help
+ Provide tau constant (also: τ)
+ Can now use channels with supply/react/whenever
+ Bool is now a proper enum
+ Supply/Supplier improvements
+ Use of EVAL now requires a declaration of 'use MONKEY-SEE-NO-EVAL'
+ Make pack and unpack experimental
+ Dynamic variables are now visible inside start { ... } blocks
+ Autoincrements on native ints are now faster than on Int
+ The ~~ operator can now chain with other comparisons in many circumstances
+ Various numeric operations now return overflow/underflow failures instead
of wrong value
+ The :ss, :ii, and :mm options to s/// now all work together

These are only some of the changes in this release. For a more
This is only a partial list of the changes in this release. For a more
detailed list, see “docs/ChangeLog”.

The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
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