Parrot 0.9.0 "From Outer Space" Released!

[Mark J. Reed]

Woot!

But Rakudo doesn't build for me (on OS X 10.5.6 using MacPorts' Perl
5.8.8; trunk built just fine as of a couple weeks ago):

parrot/tags/RELEASE_0_9_0/languages/perl6> make perl6
../../parrot  -o perl6.pbc perl6.pir
src/string.c:2342: failed assertion '(s)->encoding'
Backtrace - Obtained 20 stack frames (max trace depth is 32).
  Parrot_do_check_events
    Parrot_confess
      string_hash
        Parrot_set_config_hash_internal
          parrot_hash_get_bucket
            parrot_hash_get
              Parrot_NameSpace_get_pointer_keyed_str
                pmc_type
                  pmc_register
                    Parrot_lib_perl6_group_load
                      Parrot_init_lib
                        Parrot_init_lib
                          Parrot_load_lib
                            Parrot_Undef_ro_unshift_string
                              yyparse
                                imcc_initialize
                                  imcc_run
                                    start
                                      start
                                        (unknown)
make: *** [perl6.pbc] Abort trap