[Parrot-users] Parrot 3.10.0 "Apple Pi" Released

Andrew Whitworth wknight8111 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 19 23:31:03 UTC 2011


On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to (belatedly) announce Parrot 3.10.0,
also known as "Apple Pi".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual
machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 3.10.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/3.10.0/), 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 3.10.0 News:
    - Core
        + The mark VTABLE was added to the Select PMC
        + The Parrot::Embed Perl 5 module was removed from parrot.git
and now lives
            at https://github.com/parrot/parrot-embed
        + A set_random method was added to the Integer PMC, so random
numbers can
            be generated without needing to load math dynops
        + A new implementation of green threads was added to Parrot,
in preparation
        for a robust hybrid threading system. Green threads are currently
        not available on Windows.
    - Languages
        + Winxed
          - 'multi' modifier improved
          - throw "string" now emits throw instead of die
          - several optimizations in generated code
          - improved some error dianostics
    - Community
    - Documentation
    - Tests


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:

9d646579d64b070d1db9c23981d2b4401c75cc036cfaf479266e066f52859e7b
parrot-3.10.0.tar.bz2
2c0c4aa5cf167e739d660eca97ad0c3faab28985586da94bef1cb2aea4f59114
parrot-3.10.0.tar.gz

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 20 December 2011.

Enjoy!

--Andrew Whitworth


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