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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #23 ("Lisbon")
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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
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November 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #23 "Lisbon".
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Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
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(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the November 2009 release
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is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads
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Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent
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addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we recommend building Rakudo
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from the latest source, available from the main repository at github.
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More details are available at http://rakudo.org/how-to-get-rakudo.
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Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release code
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named after a Perl Mongers group. The November 2009 release is code
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named "Lisbon" for Lisbon.pm, who did a marvellous job arranging this
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Shortly after the October 2009 (#22) release, the Rakudo team
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began a new branch of Rakudo development ("ng") that refactors
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the grammar to much more closely align with STD.pm as well as
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update some core features that have been difficult to achieve
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in the master branch [1, 2]. Most of our effort for the past month
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has been in this new branch, but as of the release date the new
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version had not sufficiently progressed to be the release copy.
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We expect to have the new version in place in the December 2009 release.
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This release of Rakudo requires Parrot 1.8.0. One must still
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perform "make install" in the Rakudo directory before the "perl6"
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executable will run anywhere other than the Rakudo build directory.
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For the latest information on building and using Rakudo Perl, see the
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readme file section titled "Building and invoking Rakudo".
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Some of the specific changes and improvements occuring with this
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* Rakudo is now passing 32,753 spectests, an increase of 171 passing
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tests since the October 2009 release. With this release Rakudo is
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now passing 85.5% of the available spectest suite.
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* As mentioned above, most development effort for Rakudo in November
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has taken place in the "ng" branch, and will likely be reflected
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in the December 2009 release.
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* Rakudo now supports unpacking of arrays, hashes and objects in
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* Rakudo has been updated to use Parrot's new internal calling conventions,
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resulting in a slight performance increase.
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The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
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making Rakudo Perl possible. If you would like to contribute,
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see http://rakudo.org/how-to-help , ask on the perl6-compiler@perl.org
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mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
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The next release of Rakudo (#24) is scheduled for December 17, 2009.
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A list of the other planned release dates and codenames for 2009 is
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available in the "docs/release_guide.pod" file. In general, Rakudo
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development releases are scheduled to occur two days after each
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Parrot monthly release. Parrot releases the third Tuesday of each month.
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[1] http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39779
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[2] http://use.perl.org/~pmichaud/journal/39874
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