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authorSteve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>2018-11-03 08:02:01 +0000
committerSteve Mynott <steve.mynott@gmail.com>2018-11-11 14:54:32 +0000
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# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.10
-## A useful and usable production distribution of Rakudo Perl 6
+## A useful and usable production distribution of Rakudo
On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce
the October 2018 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production
-distribution of Rakudo Perl 6. The tarball for this release is available from
+distribution of Rakudo. The tarball for this release is available from
<https://rakudo.perl6.org/downloads/star/>.
Binaries for macOS and Windows (64 bit) are also available at the same
@@ -17,15 +17,15 @@ on supported platforms). Currently, Star is on a quarterly release cycle.
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 6".
+We make a distinction between the language ("Perl 6") and specific
+implementations of the language such as "Rakudo".
-This Star release includes [release 2018.10] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler],
+This Star release includes [release 2018.10] of the [Rakudo compiler],
version 2018.10 [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and other
-resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
+resources collected from the community.
[release 2018.10]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rakudo/rakudo/2018.10/docs/announce/2018.10.md
-[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
+[Rakudo compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/
The Rakudo compiler changes since the last Rakudo Star release are now listed
@@ -67,11 +67,10 @@ 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 <https://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.
+See <https://perl6.org/> for links to much more information, including
+documentation, example code, tutorials, presentations, reference materials,
+design documents, and other supporting resources. 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