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Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler development release #38 ("Toulouse")
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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the
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February 2011 release of Rakudo Perl #38 "Toulouse". Rakudo is an
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implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see
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<http://www.parrot.org>). The tarball for the February 2011 release
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is available from <http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads>.
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Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star distribution --
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it's announcing a new release of the compiler only. For the latest
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Rakudo Star release, see <http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads>.
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The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, with each release
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named after a Perl Mongers group. The February 2011 release is code named
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Some of the specific changes and improvements occurring with this
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* new --ll-backtrace command line option for low level backtraces
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* the negation meta operator can now only be applied to operators
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For a more detailed list of changes, see "docs/ChangeLog".
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The development team thanks all of our contributors and sponsors for
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making Rakudo Perl possible, as well as those people who worked on
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Parrot, the Perl 6 test suite and the specification.
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The following people contributed to this release:
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Moritz Lenz, Solomon Foster, Kodi Arfer, Tadeusz Sośnierz, Patrick R. Michaud,
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Carl Masak, Jonathan Scott Duff, Jonathan Worthington, Vasily Chekalkin, Will
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"Coke" Coleda, Michael Stapelberg, Arne Skjærholt, Fitz Elliott
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If you would like to contribute, see <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on
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the perl6-compiler@perl.org mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.
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The next release of Rakudo (#39) is scheduled for March 17, 2011.
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A list of the other planned release dates and code names for 2011 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.