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I suggest that all release managers get a special t-shirt or hat. Who wants to volunteer to make some graphics? ;) Duke On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 9:16 PM, Bruce Gray <bruce.g...@acm.org> wrote: > Jimi Hendrix, deceased, drugs. > Janis Joplin, deceased, alcohol. > Mama Cass, deceased, ham sandwich. > -- Austin Powers (making a list of friends from the Summer of Love) > > On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.4.0, also known > as "Austin Parrot". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed > at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6. > > Parrot 5.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site > (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.4.0/), or by following the > download instructions at http://parrot.org/download. For those who would like > to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using Git to > retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code. > > Parrot 5.4.0 News: > - Core > + Implemented the coth() and acot() math functions. > + Fixed chomp to only trim a newline when it ends the string. [GH > #958] > + Added readlink() and Parrot_file_readlink(), with tests. [GH #967] > - Build > + Parrot now detects the CPU model on Linux systems, as well as > detecting more CPU models on BSD, Cygwin, Solaris, Win32, and > Darwin. > ARM v7 is also now recognized. [GH #962] > - Documentation > + Threads examples now have proper POD sections and useful > descriptions > with links to references. > + Added main description for Task PMC. > + Added descriptions to trig methods in Float PMC. > - Tests > + Added improved test coverage targets "cover_new" and > "fullcover_new". > + Improved tests for acot(), coth(), acot() math functions. > + Added tests for options passed to debugger. > + Updated native PBC test files for string, number, and integer, > which resolved 11 TODOs in the test suite. [GH #959] > + Fixed test for the auto/arch config step. > - Release process > + Added message digests to crow.pir. > + Added in release.json: "release.type" can be "devel" or "supported". > + Refactored common code to sub in auto_release.pl. > - Community > + Parrot is part of the Hackathon at YAPC::NA::2013, in Austin, TX, > USA! > http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/wiki?node=Hackathons > + Parrot has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2013! > + Currently there are two high-quality proposals being worked on: > https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408 - parrot-libgit2 > https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762 - App::Parrot::Create > > > The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: > 4e37686911b446f5e5f2c0aa62138988ba0c411d2c5e2ba231d1a3421a85ad10 > parrot-5.4.0.tar.gz > 91d0e46fe3ef08e692e80756f26ee0e7311fe58e49d6c31f3f5180d4eb475696 > parrot-5.4.0.tar.bz2 > > Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors > for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 18 Jun 2013. > > Enjoy! > > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev -- Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonat...@leto.net> Leto Labs LLC http://letolabs.com 209.691.DUKE http://duke.leto.net @dukeleto _______________________________________________ http://lists.parrot.org/mailman/listinfo/parrot-dev
