Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #40 ("ZA")
On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the April 2011 release of Rakudo Perl #40 "ZA". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see <http://www.parrot.org>). The tarball for the April 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 April 2011 release is code named "ZA" after ZA.pm in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, South Africa because the denizens of #perl6 have an unusual facination with zebras and ZA just happens to have a "Z" and, according to my meager research, there are indeed zebras in the area. :-) Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this release include: * implemented Str.indent * A new, much simpler API and implemention of IO::Socket::INET 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: Moritz Lenz, Tadeusz SoĊnierz, Martin Berends, Andy Lester, Jonathan Scott Duff, flussence, Patrick Abi Salloum, Carl Masak, Jarrod If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the perl6-compi...@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. The next release of Rakudo (#41) is scheduled for May 19, 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!