I am jubilant to announce that PAR 0.76 has been uploaded to CPAN,
with a bytecode-compiling filter, which finally brings us on par with
Java's obscurability. ;-)  It is also available at:

    http://aut.dyndns.org/dist/PAR-0.76.tar.gz
    MD5 (PAR-0.76.tar.gz) = 44e2565cb30d063f0eefd2a7d6e17dff

People without a C compiler should also fetch the appropriate pre-built
pardists from http://aut.dyndns.org/par/ -- currently only ActivePerl
5.6.1 and 5.8.0 for Win32 are available.

* New Features

    - Input filters. "pp --filter Bleach" now obfuscates the incoming
      script with PAR::Filter::Bleach; "pp --modfilter Bleach" applies
      Bleach to all packed modules.

    - Two previously built-in filters, PodStrip and PatchContent,
      are refactored out as PAR::Filter subclasses.

    - Two new filters, Bleach and Bytecode, are added for source-hiding
      purporses.

    - New utility, "tkpp", provides a GUI frontend to "pp".

    - New option, "pp --perlscript", to generate stand-alone scripts.

    - The old "PAR::Intro" documentation has been replaced by two
      new ones: "PAR::Tutorial" and "PAR::FAQ".

    - Tk pixmap (.xpm) files can now be packed with "pp --add".

* Bug fixes

    - Perl 5.8.1 has an off-by-one bug that prevents "parl" to
      function properly.  We have now provided a workaround;
      this bug should also be fixed in Perl 5.8.2. 

    - Fixed https support for LWP via the new Module::ScapDeps.

Again, contributed binary packages built with 'make par' are most welcome;
please check http://aut.dyndns.org/par/ first to see if somebody already
sent me a package for your platform and perl version.

Thanks,
/Autrijus/

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