"Instruct me how to lie in wait for the old god, lest he foreseeing or
foreknowing may escape. Hard is a god for mortal man to master."
- Menelaus, The Odyssey, by Homer
On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 3.5.0, also known
as "Menelaus". Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.
Parrot 3.5.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/3.5.0/), 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 3.5.0 news:
- Core
+ A snapshot of Winxed is now included in Parrot core to facilitate writing
core Parrot tools from a higher level language than PIR.
+ Parrot_PMC_destroy, Parrot_PMC_mark and Parrot_PMC_invoke were removed
from the public extension API.
+ PAST now has PAST::Stmt node types, supports reusable temporary registers.
+ Test coverage of the embedding and extending interface is now at least
95%.
- Languages
+ Winxed
- Improved compile time scope search.
- Added 'using namespace' statement.
- Compiler classes and functions now live in the Winxed;Compiler
namespace.
- Tests
+ The Parrot test suite harness now understands the HARNESS_TIMER
environment variable. Setting it to a true value will show timing results
for a test run.
+ IPv6 tests are now parallel testing friendly.
The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
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parrot-3.5.0.tar.bz2
342beb2f9f2e54e0f39e6c128bfe8f9a8550db33e53b6930fc02d37de8953db9
parrot-3.5.0.tar.gz
Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
for supporting this project. The following people (in random order)
contributed to this release. Thanks!
François Perrad, Bob Kuo, Jim Keenan, Bruce Gray, Gerd Pokorra, Christoph
Otto, Fitz Elliott, Julian Albo, Peter Lobsinger, Jonathan "Duke" Leto, Kevin
Polulak, Andy Lester, Michael H. Hind, Dan Bolser, Vasily Chekalkin, Matt
Boyle, Patrick Michaud, Andrew Whitworth, Brian Gernhardt
Our next scheduled release is 19 July 2011.
Enjoy!
