Parrot 5.4.0 "Austin Parrot" Released!

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

Thank you!

I suggest that all release managers get a special t-shirt or hat.

Who wants to volunteer to make some graphics? ;)

Duke

On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Gray <bruce.gray at acm.org> wrote:
>     Jimi Hendrix, deceased, drugs.
>     Janis Joplin, deceased, alcohol.
>     Mama Cass, deceased, ham sandwich.
>         -- Austin Powers (making a list of friends from the Summer of Love)
>
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.4.0, also known
> as "Austin Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
> at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6.
>
> Parrot 5.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
> (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.4.0/), 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 5.4.0 News:
>     - Core
>         + Implemented the coth() and acot() math functions.
>         + Fixed chomp to only trim a newline when it ends the string. [GH #958]
>         + Added readlink() and Parrot_file_readlink(), with tests. [GH #967]
>     - Build
>         + Parrot now detects the CPU model on Linux systems, as well as
>           detecting more CPU models on BSD, Cygwin, Solaris, Win32, and Darwin.
>           ARM v7 is also now recognized. [GH #962]
>     - Documentation
>         + Threads examples now have proper POD sections and useful descriptions
>           with links to references.
>         + Added main description for Task PMC.
>         + Added descriptions to trig methods in Float PMC.
>     - Tests
>         + Added improved test coverage targets "cover_new" and "fullcover_new".
>         + Improved tests for acot(), coth(), acot() math functions.
>         + Added tests for options passed to debugger.
>         + Updated native PBC test files for string, number, and integer,
>           which resolved 11 TODOs in the test suite. [GH #959]
>         + Fixed test for the auto/arch config step.
>     - Release process
>         + Added message digests to crow.pir.
>         + Added in release.json: "release.type" can be "devel" or "supported".
>         + Refactored common code to sub in auto_release.pl.
>     - Community
>         + Parrot is part of the Hackathon at YAPC::NA::2013, in Austin, TX, USA!
>             http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/wiki?node=Hackathons
>         + Parrot has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2013!
>         + Currently there are two high-quality proposals being worked on:
>             https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408        - parrot-libgit2
>             https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762 - App::Parrot::Create
>
>
> The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
> 4e37686911b446f5e5f2c0aa62138988ba0c411d2c5e2ba231d1a3421a85ad10 parrot-5.4.0.tar.gz
> 91d0e46fe3ef08e692e80756f26ee0e7311fe58e49d6c31f3f5180d4eb475696 parrot-5.4.0.tar.bz2
>
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
> for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 18 Jun 2013.
>
> Enjoy!
>
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