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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #16 ("Bratislava")
Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #16 ("Bratislava")

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce
the April 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #16 "Bratislava".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine [1].
The tarball for the April 2009 release is available from
http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .
http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .

Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the
frequent addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we continue
to recommend that people wanting to use or work with Rakudo obtain
the latest source directly from the main repository at github.
More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo .

Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named
Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code named
after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named "Bratislava",
home to Jonathan Worthington and reportedly an excellent place to
obtain beer (a key component of Jonathan's contributions to Perl).
The Bratislava.pm group is quite active [2], with regular technical
obtain beer (a key component of Jonathan's contributions to Perl).
The Bratislava.pm group is quite active [2], with regular technical
presentations and social gatherings.

In this release of Rakudo Perl, we've made the following major changes
and improvements:

* Rakudo is now passing 10,467 spectests, an increase of 3,194
passing tests since the March 2009 release. With this release
Rakudo is now passing approximately 65% of the available
Rakudo is now passing approximately 65% of the available
spectest suite.

* About 2/3 of the increase in passing tests is due to improved
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one can write / [\w+] ** ',' / to get a comma-separated
list of words.

* More builtin functions and methods have been rewritten in
* More builtin functions and methods have been rewritten in
Perl 6 and placed as part of the setting.

* Release tar files now contain local copies of the appropriate
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see docs/ChangeLog for a more complete list.

The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to help
contribute, see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help, ask on the
perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
making Rakudo Perl possible. 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 (#17) is scheduled for May 21, 2009.
A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is
available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo
development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 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.

Have fun!

References:
[1] Parrot, http://parrot.org/
[2] Bratislava.pm, http://bratislava.pm.org/

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