Parrot 5.5.0 "Salvadori's Fig Parrot" Released!

David Golden xdg at xdg.me
Wed Jun 19 14:20:52 UTC 2013


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On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:03 AM, Bruce Gray <bruce.gray at acm.org> wrote:
> Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
> Yoda: No. There is another.
>     -- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
>
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.5.0, also known
> as "Salvadori's Fig Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
> at running all dynamic languages.
>
> Parrot 5.5.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
> (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.5.0/), or by following the
> download instructions at http://parrot.org/download.  For those who would like
> to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to
> retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code.
>
> Parrot 5.5.0 News:
>     - Build
>         + Configure options are now allowed to be quoted.
>         + Fixed build on Win32.
>         + Updated location of NQP on Win32.
>         + Fixed Parrot::Distribution detection.
>     - Documentation
>         + Noted that RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES is mostly out of date.
>     - Tests
>         + Stopped testing native PBC on 64bit LE, due to lack of access to
>           such machine.
>     - Release
>         + Added tool: make_upload_commands.pl
>     - Community
>         + Parrot has been awarded 3 student slots in Google Summer of Code 2013!
>           This means that 3 lucky students will be on a paid internship from
>           Google to work on these accepted proposals:
>           = Saurabh Kumar - "Update parrot-libgit2 to latest libgit2 release"
>               https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408
>               http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/saurabh_kgp/11002
>           = Paweł Murias - "A Javascript backend for Rakudo"
>             http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/pmurias/9002
>           = Denis Boyun  - "Improve Web UI of App::Parrot::Create"
>               https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762
>               https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/chob_rock/9001
>         + YAPC::NA::2013 hosted 4 days of Hackathon, focusing on the next
>           generation of Perl implementations.
>           = Huge Success!
>         + MoarVM was unveiled:
>             https://github.com/MoarVM
>         + P2 on Potion was debuted:
>             http://perl11.org/p2/
>
>
> The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
> 408a45660483499106a35107a836a80da27269a6d54bb114ba6e2249b2b9e9da parrot-5.5.0.tar.gz
> eb7b7d461e627673e77f5e875154506054ce9950d63b263875d9272c7814fd30 parrot-5.5.0.tar.bz2
>
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
> for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 16 Jul 2013.
>
> Enjoy!
>



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