On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 3.2.0, also known as "Nanday Parakeet". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 3.2.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site (ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/3.2.0/), 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 3.2.0 News: - Core + Full support for Unicode filenames on Linux and Win32 + The configuration option --cxx is gone + New Generational GC implemented. To enable it run Configure.pl --gc=gms + Now op definitions are semantically parsed. It opens possibilities for future optimizations of parrot core. + A statement convert the '.param' PIR systax + A PMC is implemented for low-level buffer access which separate the representation from the pointers + Support added for 'long double', 'long long', and 64-bit to StructView + In math.h are tools available for Inf/NaN + Signature PMCs are used pervasively - Languages + A few tests in Cardinal are fixed + A binary .dmg is created of Rakudo Star for OS X + Winxed - Minor fixes, refactors and cleaning - New predefs replace, push and provide a way to access multiple return values - Operators exits, class and .* (indirect method call) added - $loadlib directive - -o option to installable driver added - Indent generated PIR is added to improve clarity and avoid imcc pitfalls with non indented sub bodys - Community + M0 roadmap is in progress - Documentation + 'make docs' target, which was serving only to generate superfluous POD files, has been removed. + Svn remnants from PDDs are removed - Tests + Added 'make release_check' target so that Release Manager can double-check tarball + Probes added for 'long long' and 64-bit C types - Rosella (https://github.com/Whiteknight/Rosella) Rosella is a collection of tools and building blocks for Parrot + A working proxy library is created, that make mostly-transparent custom proxies for many types of Parrot PMCs + A mockobject testing library is created, using the new proxy library + The PLA test suite is updated to use the new Rosella testing tools, including the new mockobjects to test callbacks The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are: 568b245ce41f9d8f73e306a47b179cc77c7016fe55bd7ae8c91b9e4bb3976884 parrot-3.2.0.tar.bz2 238535c743ef7fa3f98e94d5099d0274e55556f3649e3658566a3dd9f9d3eab5 parrot-3.2.0.tar.gz Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project. Our next scheduled release is 19 April 2011. Enjoy!
