13 files changed, 104 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/README b/README
index a90e4c4..1013322 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 distribution for "early adopters".
 
-This is the 2012.11 release of Rakudo Star.
+This is the 2012.12 release of Rakudo Star.
 
 Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2012 by the Rakudo Star Team.
 
diff --git a/docs/announce/2012.12 b/docs/announce/2012.12
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c110b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/announce/2012.12
@@ -0,0 +1,95 @@
+Announce: Rakudo Star - 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 December 2012 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and
+usable distribution of Perl 6.  The tarball for the  December 2012
+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.
+
+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 2012.11 [0] of the
+Rakudo Perl 6 compiler [1], version 4.10.0 of the Parrot Virtual
+Machine [2], and various modules, documentation, and other
+resources collected from the Perl 6 community.
+
+Some of the new features added to this release include:
+
+* Parse errors are much improved, and follow STD, the standard parser,
+  much more closely; they are more accurate and more information is given
+
+* Rakudo now keeps parsing after some less serious errors
+
+* Better errors for various parse failures
+
+* The junction autothreader is now an order of magnitude faster
+
+* Texas (ASCII) versions of the Set and Bag operators implemented
+
+* Nested Pairs now give correct .perl output
+
+* { a => $_ } now correctly considered a block, not a hash as before
+
+This release also contains a range of performance improvements, bug fixes,
+improvements to error reporting and better failure modes. 
+
+The following features have been deprecated or modified from previous
+releases due to changes in the Perl 6 specification, and are being removed
+or changed as follows:
+
+* 'for'-loops will become lazy, and are only evaluated eagerly in
+  eager or sink (void) context. This means that if a for-loop is
+  the last statement in a routine, it will usually run after the
+  routine has returned, so it cannot call return() anymore.
+
+* Unary hyper ops currently descend into nested arrays and hashes.
+  This will change to make them equivalent to a one-level map.
+
+* The Str.ucfirst builtin is deprecated; it will be replaced by Str.tc.
+
+* Leading whitespace in rules and under :sigspace will no longer be
+  converted to <.ws> .  For existing regexes that expect this conversion,
+  add a <?> in front of leading whitespace to make it meta again.
+
+* The ?-quantifier on captures in regexes currently binds the capture
+  slot to a List containing either zero or one Match objects; i.e., it
+  is equivalent to "** 0..1".  In the future, the ?-quantifier will
+  bind the slot directly to a captured Match or to Nil.  Existing code
+  can manage the transition by changing existing ?-quantifiers to
+  use "** 0..1", which will continue to return a List of matches.
+
+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
+  * threads and concurrency
+  * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints
+  * interactive readline that understands Unicode
+  * non-blocking I/O
+  * much of Synopsis 9
+
+There is an online resource at http://perl6.org/compilers/features 
+that lists the known implemented and missing features of Rakudo 
+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, reference
+materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources.
+A draft of a Perl 6 book is available as <docs/UsingPerl6-draft.pdf> 
+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.
+
+[0] https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2012.12
+[1] http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo
+[2] http://parrot.org/
diff --git a/modules/Pod-To-HTML b/modules/Pod-To-HTML
-Subproject 284cc49aba08326bed79da8989997dc6180f849
+Subproject b6fe3814c426fcccd6c72553f136dda389d02fd
diff --git a/modules/doc b/modules/doc
-Subproject 3d6ca6b266f774edda993e8e3cb41fbe61ba4e1
+Subproject 4b715a979de01655489e6fb154f1b5563a1aa19
diff --git a/modules/jsonrpc b/modules/jsonrpc
-Subproject 0d8f3ff7ddcb5f7894463683d8ea639b8d715aa
+Subproject 0cf47c91c47725b32138f2f3b31537a96d3678a
diff --git a/modules/panda b/modules/panda
-Subproject f4f19b5a8cb8bc95f5c7652434232b49322ca51
+Subproject 9d68a7005235fe9bc702965c8c5cf318b308427
diff --git a/modules/rakudo-debugger b/modules/rakudo-debugger
-Subproject 68f1a3659b098e009c4d3924ada64d420bce3d5
+Subproject d8f47ac05ea21d81942ae1132868668d92b495d
diff --git a/modules/ufo b/modules/ufo
-Subproject 2f477c525ff6077ee093d69510c4199c673d0ab
+Subproject 0755ad0ddb9cf6900205acdc4670e1bb12ade1c
diff --git a/modules/uri b/modules/uri
-Subproject 348c40f91bb341469b9d865469265023c4de619
+Subproject 50980c0e9a788ffd67528e3725c794848d97a58
diff --git a/modules/zavolaj b/modules/zavolaj
-Subproject 9ace1eeb745dadb66362e67a216074a29c650fa
+Subproject 45ff47c297116336063094171a04669b12b0a7c
diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile.in b/tools/build/Makefile.in
index fcc6987..7c169c1 100644
--- a/tools/build/Makefile.in
+++ b/tools/build/Makefile.in
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 PARROT_DIR = parrot
 NQP_DIR    = nqp
 RAKUDO_DIR = rakudo
-STAR_VERSION = 2012.11
+STAR_VERSION = 2012.12
 
 PARROT_ARGS      =
 
diff --git a/tools/star/Makefile b/tools/star/Makefile
index cfaf1ed..16a58d7 100644
--- a/tools/star/Makefile
+++ b/tools/star/Makefile
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-RAKUDO_VER  = 2012.11
-NQP_VER     = 2012.11
-PARROT_VER  = 4.6.0
-PARROT_REL  = supported/$(PARROT_VER)
+RAKUDO_VER  = 2012.12
+NQP_VER     = 2012.12
+PARROT_VER  = 4.10.0
+PARROT_REL  = devel/$(PARROT_VER)
 
 STAR_REL    = rakudo-star-$(VERSION)
 STAR_TGZ    = $(STAR_REL).tar.gz
@@ -9,10 +9,10 @@ STAR_TGZ    = $(STAR_REL).tar.gz
 SRC_DIR = src
 
 RAKUDO_TGZ = rakudo-$(RAKUDO_VER).tar.gz
-RAKUDO_URL = https://github.com/downloads/rakudo/rakudo/$(RAKUDO_TGZ)
+RAKUDO_URL = http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/$(RAKUDO_TGZ)
 RAKUDO_SRC = $(SRC_DIR)/$(RAKUDO_TGZ)
 NQP_TGZ    = nqp-$(NQP_VER).tar.gz
-NQP_URL    = https://github.com/downloads/perl6/nqp/$(NQP_TGZ)
+NQP_URL    = http://rakudo.org/downloads/nqp/$(NQP_TGZ)
 NQP_SRC    = $(SRC_DIR)/$(NQP_TGZ)
 PARROT_TGZ = parrot-$(PARROT_VER).tar.gz
 PARROT_URL = http://ftp.parrot.org/releases/$(PARROT_REL)/$(PARROT_TGZ)
diff --git a/tools/star/release-guide.pod b/tools/star/release-guide.pod
index 2aac0c3..cb57e39 100644
--- a/tools/star/release-guide.pod
+++ b/tools/star/release-guide.pod
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ You're done!  Celebrate with the appropriate amount of fun.
     2012.09         pmichaud
     2012.10         jnthn
     2012.11         moritz
+    2012.12         moritz
 
 =cut