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| author | jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net> | 2014-05-02 22:08:27 +0200 |
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| committer | jnthn <jnthn@jnthn.net> | 2014-05-02 22:08:27 +0200 |
| commit | 7b16c2f951f849720c44afaa783ebdc5b1725640 (patch) | |
| tree | f7eec673fdaf830a51eb7e0ca98511a98a35a8d2 | |
| parent | 9977651d1ee96a4772258a1c7d7faf50a286bf2b (diff) | |
Release announce work for 2014.04 release.
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/announce/2014.04 | 20 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/docs/announce/2014.04 b/docs/announce/2014.04 index b4b5d51..779ebe6 100644 --- a/docs/announce/2014.04 +++ b/docs/announce/2014.04 @@ -3,24 +3,26 @@ ## A useful, usable, "early adopter" distribution of Perl 6 On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to -announce the March 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 2014 release is +announce the April 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 2014 release is available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. A Windows .MSI version of Rakudo star will usually appear in the downloads area shortly after the tarball release. -This is the first Rakudo Star release with experimental support for -the JVM and MoarVM backend. +This is the first Rakudo Star release with support for the MoarVM +backend (all module tests pass on supported platforms) along with +experimental support for the JVM backend (some module tests fail). In the Perl 6 world, we make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific implementations of the language such as -"Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes [release 2014.03] of the +"Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes [release 2014.04] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 6.1.0 of the [Parrot Virtual -Machine], version 2014.04 of the [MoarVM], plus various modules, -documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. +Machine], version 2014.04 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, +documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 +community. -[release 2014.03]: - https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.03.md +[release 2014.04]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.04.md [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo [Parrot Virtual Machine]: http://parrot.org [MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ |