[Parrot-users] Parrot 2.9.0 "Red-masked" supported release.

[Gerd Pokorra]

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 2.9.0
"Red-masked".
Parrot [0] is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 2.9.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or follow the
download instructions [1]. For those who would like to develop on
Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Subversion
on the source code repository to get the latest and best Parrot code.

[0] - http://parrot.org/
[1] - http://parrot.org/download


SHA digests for this release are:
657f4a67de97290ccf621f8c600726d7567922ffdd7b6eddd3b12d9bfc877362
parrot-2.9.0.tar.gz
d5e23c1d1dc279ef5942c5190de67cb23c66a97eb9f2afce22400e93d4f4f243
parrot-2.9.0.tar.bz2


Parrot 2.9.0 News:
- Core
  + Parrot and Rakudo's build and tests can now be run under the
profiling runcore
  + IPv6 is now detected, laying the groundwork for future networking
improvements
  + mk_language_shell.pl and create_language.pl no longer require an
installed parrot
  + String PMC's 'reverse' method is now faster and supports all
encodings
  + improvements and simplifications in internal string processing
  + Added API for adding STRINGs to the gc root set
  + Speed up ord, substr, index and string comparison opcodes
- Testing
  + "make smoke" supports parallel testing by honoring TEST_JOBS
  + Added tests for Socket PMC, StringBuilder PMC, ByteBuffer PMC,
    mk_language_shell.pl, create_language.pl
  + Fixed "Configure.pl" about missing tests
  + Parrot and Rakudo Perl 6 now have access to the GCC Compile Farm
  + Testing on Darwin/PPC
- Git Migration
  + Most developer tools have been ported to Git
  + Majority of developer docs have been written for Git
- Platforms
  + Parrot can now be built on Minix


Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
sponsors for supporting this project. 
Our next scheduled release is 16 November 2010.

Enjoy!