[svn:parrot] r39569 - trunk

[whiteknight at svn.parrot.org]

Author: whiteknight
Date: Mon Jun 15 12:59:44 2009
New Revision: 39569
URL: https://trac.parrot.org/parrot/changeset/39569

Log:
[NEWS] Add a preliminary selection of news items from the past month, based on my understanding of short, oblique SVN log messages

Modified:
   trunk/NEWS

Modified: trunk/NEWS
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--- trunk/NEWS	Mon Jun 15 09:41:30 2009	(r39568)
+++ trunk/NEWS	Mon Jun 15 12:59:44 2009	(r39569)
@@ -4,6 +4,27 @@
 - Core
   + Optimization for parts of the IO system
   + Fix inheritance heirarchy of FileHandle and Socket PMC types
+  + Fixed several leaks involving subroutines and Parrot_Context
+  + Several small fixes and optimizations to GC
+  + Cleanup and refactor GC internals
+  + Optimized PMC class manipulations to use type numbers instead of string names
+  + Fixed several problems involving hashval calculations in strings
+  + Updated several unnecessary MULTI dispatches in built-in PMCs
+  + Fixed several memory leaks involving PMCs that were not properly destroyed
+  + Fixed creation of PMCProxy PMCs in correct namespaces.
+  + Added preliminary Pipe support
+  + Fixed cloning of Object PMCs
+  + Added root_new opcode
+- Compilers
+  + Fixed several memory leaks in IMCC
+  + Updated PCT to use root_new opcode
+- Documentation
+  + Improvment and expansion of /docs/book
+  + Updated documentation, including release managers guide
+- Miscellaneous
+  + Cleaning code and improving code-level documentation
+  + Various bugfixes, code cleanups, and coding standard fixes.
+  
 
 New in 1.2.0
 - Core