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# Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Development Release #69 ("Roederbergweg")
# Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Development Release #70 ("Malmö")

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the
October 2013 release of Rakudo Perl #69 "Roederbergweg". Rakudo is an
November 2013 release of Rakudo Perl #70 "Malmö". Rakudo is an
implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine and the Java Virtual
Machine. The tarball for this release is available from
<http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>.
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<http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>.

The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each
release named after a Perl Mongers group. The October 2013 release is
code-named after Roederbergweg.pm, a Perl Mongers group very near the recent
Perl 6 Internals Workshop
release named after a Perl Mongers group. The November 2013 release is
code-named after Malmö, from which this release has been launched.

Some of the changes in this release are outlined below:

+ postcircumfix {} and [] are now implemented as multi subs rather than
multi methods. This should allow for better optimization in the future.
+ Add support for "is deprecated", making it easy for early adopters
to stay current.
+ Track multiple spec changes for various container classes.
+ Greatly reduce object creation during Regex parsing.
+ Various portability fixes.
+ Many concurrency primitives harmonized with new S17, but still pretty fluid
+ Refactored build system that allows building rakudo on rakudo/JVM in the same place
+ Order::Increase/Decrease are deprecated. Please use Order::Less/More.
+ Leading whitespace is ignored for :sigspace
+ Better null pattern detection in regexes
+ The "gethostname" function implemented
+ Performance optimization: unfold junctions in 'when' clauses
+ various other bug fixes, optimisations and additional tests

These are only some of the changes in this release. For a more
detailed list, see "docs/ChangeLog".
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The following people contributed to this release:

Jonathan Worthington, Arne Skjærholt, Timo Paulssen, Carl Masak, Moritz Lenz, Tobias Leich, Alexander Moquin, Patrick R. Michaud, Elizabeth Mattijsen, grondilu, Jonathan Scott Duff, Will "Coke" Coleda
Moritz Lenz, Tobias Leich, Jonathan Worthington, Timo Paulssen,
Will "Coke" Coleda, Mouq, Brian Gernhardt, Arne Skjærholt, foo, L. Grondin,
Geoffrey Broadwell, Steve Mynott, Andrew Egeler, grondilu, Elizabeth Mattijsen

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 (#70), is scheduled for November 21, 2013.
The next release of Rakudo (#71), is scheduled for December 19, 2013.
A list of the other planned release dates and code names for future
releases is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. A Rakudo
development release occurs soon after each Parrot monthly release is
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