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@@ -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 |