Author: rgrjr
Date: Sat Aug 16 19:22:17 2008
New Revision: 30273
Modified:
trunk/NEWS
Log:
[NEWS] Flesh this out a bit.
Modified: trunk/NEWS
==============================================================================
--- trunk/NEWS (original)
+++ trunk/NEWS Sat Aug 16 19:22:17 2008
@@ -1,10 +1,51 @@
# $Id$
-New in August 2008 release
-- Tools
- + parrot_debugger renamed from pdb
+New in 0.7.0 [r29473 through r30270]
+- Specification
+ + PDD27: add multisub lookup
+- Languages
+ + Cardinal (Ruby):
+ + Lua:
+ - [opengl4lua branch merge?]
+ + Pipp (PHP):
+ + Pugs (Perl 6):
+ - removed due to bit rot
+ + Rakudo (Perl 6):
+ - updated the Rakudo roadmap
+ - Perl 6 multi dispatch
+ - dispatch with slurpies
+ - class attributes ("my $.x")
+ - now up to 2196 passing tests
+ + Tcl:
+ - [lots]
+- Compilers
+ + PCT:
+ - :scope('register') for PAST::Var nodes
+ + PIRC:
+ - PIR registers now use the vanilla register allocator
+ - all PASM output now uses PASM registers
+ - all .locals and $registers are mapped
+- Configuration
+ + tests now clean up after themselves
+ + improved parallel test support
+ + ports/cygwin added
+ + Darwin problems fixed
+- Deprecations
+ + ".pragma n_operators" is deprecated
+ + old PASM register syntax (without "$") is deprecated
+ + bare (unquoted) method names are deprecated
+ + "#line" will be replaced with ".line"
+ + ".HLL_map" syntax will change
+ + ".loadlib" is now separate from ".HLL"
+ + mmdvtregister and mmdvtablefind opcodes are deprecated
+ + removed getfd, getclass opcodes, plus numeric get_attr and set_attr
- Implementation
- + removed opcode getfd
+ + new concurrency implementation (see PDD25)
+ + new "say" opcode
+ + Exception PMC now captures a return continuation
+- Tools
+ + parrot_debugger renamed from pdb, numerous tweaks
+- Miscellaneous
New in 0.6.4
- Documentation
