Parrot 1.7.0 is Coming Soon

[Jonathan Leto]

Howdy,

If anybody has any items that they want added to NEWS, please send
them to me before  noon-ish, Pacific time, today. Currently, this is
what I have:

New in 1.7.0
- Functionality
 + Parrot_capture_lex has been added to the PARROT_EXPORT API
 + PARROT_MAX_ARGS has been increased from 8 to 16 to allow for ops
that take more than 8 args
- Performance
 + The profiling runcore now caches metadata for improved performance
- Maintenance and cleanup
  + Continue to port internals to use the STRING API
- Deprecations
 + implicit optional named parameters (eligible in 2.1)
 + continuation-based ExceptionHandlers (eligible in 2.1)
- Bugfix
- Tests
  + Converted many more Perl 5 tests to PIR
  + Expanded test coverage of the CallSignature PMC
- Compilers
  + Improved line number tracking in IMCC


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Jonathan Leto
jonathan at leto.net
http://leto.net