Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
Yoda: No. There is another.
-- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.5.0, also known
as "Salvadori's Fig Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine
aimed
at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 5.5.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.5.0/), 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 5.5.0 News:
- Build
+ Configure options are now allowed to be quoted.
+ Fixed build on Win32.
+ Updated location of NQP on Win32.
+ Fixed Parrot::Distribution detection.
- Documentation
+ Noted that RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES is mostly out of date.
- Tests
+ Stopped testing native PBC on 64bit LE, due to lack of access to
such machine.
- Release
+ Added tool: make_upload_commands.pl
- Community
+ Parrot has been awarded 3 student slots in Google Summer of Code 2013!
This means that 3 lucky students will be on a paid internship from
Google to work on these accepted proposals:
= Saurabh Kumar - "Update parrot-libgit2 to latest libgit2 release"
https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/saurabh_kgp/11002
= Paweł Murias - "A Javascript backend for Rakudo"
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/pmurias/9002
= Denis Boyun - "Improve Web UI of App::Parrot::Create"
https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762
https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/chob_rock/9001
+ YAPC::NA::2013 hosted 4 days of Hackathon, focusing on the next
generation of Perl implementations.
= Huge Success!
+ MoarVM was unveiled:
https://github.com/MoarVM
+ P2 on Potion was debuted:
http://perl11.org/p2/
The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
408a45660483499106a35107a836a80da27269a6d54bb114ba6e2249b2b9e9da
parrot-5.5.0.tar.gz
eb7b7d461e627673e77f5e875154506054ce9950d63b263875d9272c7814fd30
parrot-5.5.0.tar.bz2
Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 16 Jul 2013.
Enjoy!
