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-# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.03
-
-## A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6
-
-On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm honored to announce
-the March 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production
-distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 2016 release is available
-from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>.
-
-This is the second post-Christmas (production) release of Rakudo Star and
-implements Perl v6.c. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend (all module
-tests pass on supported platforms).
-
-Please note that this release of Rakudo Star is not fully functional with the
-JVM backend from the Rakudo compiler. Please use the MoarVM backend only.
-
-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 2016.03] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version
-2016.03 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources
-collected from the Perl 6 community.
-
-[release 2016.03]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rakudo/rakudo/2016.03/docs/announce/2016.03.md
-[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
-[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/
-
-Some of the new compiler features since the last Rakudo Star release include:
-
- * Much improved REPL with multi-line support.
- * Native string arrays.
- * Values in the environment value hash are now allomorphic.
- * Blob is now a proper value type.
- * Many Time & Memory efficiency improvements including faster accessor/mutators.
- * Can now uninstall modules.
- * Modules can now be shared between rakudo versions.
- * The usual assortment of bug fixes and error message improvements.
-
-Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star:
-
- * Bailador: removed and available in the ecosystem.
- * ufo: removed and available in the ecosystem.
- * Native::Resources: helper for native code added.
- * DBIish: Better Oracle & Postgres support, more GLRish API and many other fixes.
- * Shell::Command: deprecated "which".
- * Panda: Fix issues with paths containing spaces, '--help' option added etc.
- * And much more
-
-There are some key features of Perl 6 that Rakudo Star does not yet
-handle appropriately, although they will appear in upcoming releases.
-Some of the not-quite-there features include:
-
- * advanced macros
- * non-blocking I/O (in progress)
- * some bits of Synopsis 9 and 11
-
-There is an online resource at <http://perl6.org/compilers/features>
-that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo's
-backends and other Perl 6 implementations.
-
-In many places we've tried to make Rakudo smart enough to inform the
-programmer that a given feature isn't implemented, but there are many
-that we've missed. Bug reports about missing and broken features are
-welcomed at <rakudobug@perl.org>.
-
-See <http://perl6.org/> for links to much more information about
-Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, presentations,
-reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources.
-Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory in
-the release tarball.
-
-The development team thanks all of the contributors and sponsors for
-making Rakudo Star possible. If you would like to contribute, see
-<http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the <perl6-compiler@perl.org>
-mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode.