Parrot 5.9.0 "Fantastick Parrot" Released!

[Jonathan "Duke" Leto]

Howdy,

Thank you, Bruce! This is a "fantastick" release :)

Duke


On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 10:06 PM, Bruce Gray <bruce.gray at acm.org> wrote:

>     Try to remember the kind of September
>     When life was slow and, oh, so mellow.
>     Try to remember the kind of September
>     When grass was green and grain was yellow.
>         -- El Gallo in "The Fantasticks"
>            (World's Longest Running Musical)
>
> On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.9.0, also
> known
> as "Fantastick Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine
> aimed
> at running all dynamic languages.
>
> Parrot 5.9.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
> (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/supported/5.9.0/), 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 5.9.0 News:
>     - Core
>         + Don't complain about utf8 multibyte characters split by chunk
> boundaries
>         + Fixed readall SEGV at eof, e.g. when calling readall twice [GH
> #981]
>         + Fixed SEGV when .const not found. [GH #996]
>         + Added PackfileView-compatible methods to EvalPMC. [GH #937]
> (Temporary)
>     - Build
>         + Fixed MacOSX -Wno-long-double warning [GH #980]
>     - Testing
>         + Sorted hash keys to allow better diffs between runs of `make
> fulltest`.
>     - Branches
>         + The new-packfile-api branch with the final removal of the EvalPMC
>           is ready and will most likely land in 5.10.0
>     - Documentation
>         + Fixed and improved the documentation about Parrot_str_new
>     - Community
>         + Zefram reported 31 issues. Thanks a lot!
>         + All three of our GSoC students completed their projects, and
> passed
>           their finals with flying colors. Congratulations! Their weekly
> reports
>           are available here:
>             = Saurabh Kumar - "Update parrot-libgit2 to latest libgit2
> release"
>                 http://www.parrot.org/tags/parrot-libgit2
>             = Paweł Murias - "A Javascript backend for Rakudo"
>                 http://parrot.org/blog/1850
>             = Denis Boyun  - "Improve Web UI of App::Parrot::Create"
>                 http://parrot.org/blog/1843
>
>
> The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
> 52d2e7c33ba9b2c3ed692738af8a27b13c838d45790cee0609e116c724d3d7b4
> parrot-5.9.0.tar.gz
> b4704231d90ddec827f45f945b9ad13dd4f9dc7cc9bc0cfc97ab6e30ec1c38ca
> parrot-5.9.0.tar.bz2
>
> Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our
> sponsors
> for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 19 Nov 2013.
>
> Enjoy!
>
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