link: http://perlwannabe.vox.com/library/post/padre-056-has-been-released.html
Text follows: It's always my pleasure to announce the latest release of Padre, the Perl IDE. As is the case of the release manager, especially this one, I see bits and pieces of what's going on in the IRC channel and do my best to commit fixes or improvements to trunk, but I rarely do. So as release manager I get to spend about 30 minutes getting Padre packaged up and ready and then make an announcement to the world. For that I get to say I'm part of the Padre team! :) Without doubt this was one of the busiest development cycles between releases I've seen. Check out the Changes file as proof of this. The listed changes this time around are so numerous I'm not going to repeat it all here. What can be said about Padre 0.56 is that it is faster than it has been in a long time. Adam Kennedy said so himself. There's little to argue that it isn't. I find it amusing that our splash screen has little to do these days. Pity because it's quite pretty. As is normal with projects like this, people add and take bits from the source tree, each little bit can start to add up in terms of the overall performance of the application. Adam has worked hard on improving the locking subsystem and make plenty of commits which over time has seen incremental improvements to the application's performance. However it should be noted that Steffan's branch that improves the background task thread memory use is not in this release as Adam said in his blog entry about 0.56. It was felt that given the number of changes in this release that it would be best to hold the merge of Steffan's branch until after 0.56 allowing the devs to poke and prod at the new changes in the dev cycle to release of 0.57. This could mean a few things. 0.56 is the last stable and fast release for a while, or we find that the changes coming in with this merge will be fine and we release early a 0.57 to allow work to be done after a successful release. All in all, Padre continues to move forward. It continues to bring with it incremental improvements and every now and then a release that is simply a giant stride. Such is 0.56. As always, it's a pleasure to be apart of group of great people each doing their bit to make their programming life, and hopefully others, just that little more pleasant. If you find any problems with Padre, feel free to drop into #padre on irc.perl.org and tell us about it. There's usually someone around to check into it.
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