Parrot 1.7.0 is Coming Soon

[Will Coleda]

Also, we have a lot of old PLATFORM entries that could stand to be
updated/removed.

On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Jonathan Leto <jaleto at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
>
> Jonathan Leto
> jonathan at leto.net
> http://leto.net
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Will "Coke" Coleda