On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the May 2011 release of Rakudo Perl #41 "Dahut". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see <http://www.parrot.org>). The tarball for the May 2011 release is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads>.
Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star distribution -- it's announcing a new release of the compiler only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>. The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named after a Perl Mongers group. The May 2011 release is code named "Dahut". Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this release include: * added a call counter for builtins in Perl 6-level subroutines * gcd (greatest common divisor) and lcm (largest common multiple) operators * implemented Int.base For a more detailed list of changes, see "docs/ChangeLog". The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on Parrot, the Perl 6 test suite and the specification. The following people contributed to this release: Patrick R. Michaud, Moritz Lenz, Jonathan Scott Duff, Tadeusz SoĊnierz, Carl Masak, Solomon Foster, bacek If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the [email protected] mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. The next release of Rakudo (#42) is scheduled for June 23, 2011. A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2011 is available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month. Have fun!
