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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 distribution for "early adopters". -This is the 2015.09 release of Rakudo Star. +This is the 2015.11 release of Rakudo Star. Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2015 by the Rakudo Star Team. diff --git a/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf b/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf Binary files differindex 3f28e7b..be2a223 100644 --- a/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf +++ b/docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf diff --git a/docs/announce/2015.11.md b/docs/announce/2015.11.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b090c5f --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2015.11.md @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.11 + +## 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 November 2015 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the November 2015 release is +available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. + +This Rakudo Star release comes with support for the MoarVM +backend (all module tests pass on supported platforms). + +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 2015.11] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 2015.11 of [MoarVM], plus various +modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the +Perl 6 community. + +[release 2015.11]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2015.11.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ + +Some of the new compiler features since the ast Rakudo Star release include: + ++ There is now an `infix:<.>` operator that does method calls with slightly + looser precedence than the postfix unary method call. ++ New operator `infix o` for function composition ++ `fc` for Unicode-correct case folding implemented ++ grep now accepts :k, :v, :kv, :p attributes ++ `Supply.throttle` for rate-limiting ++ Array.push is now used for pushing one element (mostly); Array.append + exists for pushing multiple values. Same for `unshift`/`prepend` ++ Basic arithmetic operations (`+`, `*`, `-`, `/`) on Range objects + that shift or scale the end points while maintaining exclusions ++ The v notation now allows alphabetic components: v1.2.beta. (Incompatible + because method calls on a version must be protected by \ or () now.) ++ `use v6b+;` notation is now recognized and enforced ++ Many built-in methods that return iterables are now much faster ++ Better error messages when comparing version strings with numbers ++ Several error messages that were lacking line numbers now include them ++ Initial shaped array support ++ `\r\n` (Carriage Return/LineFeed) is now a single (synthetic) grapheme ++ Unicode support adheres to Unicode Annex #29 ++ Unicode quotes are now also allowed in regular expressions ++ Improved newline support with "use newline" and updates to IO::Handle ++ Added List.head, List.tail, List.repeated methods ++ Str.encode now allows :replacement parameter for unencodable sequences ++ Str.split now accepts multiple strings to split on ++ New Range.int-bounds returns first/last value for integer ranges ++ Auto-generated meta-ops vivified by referring to them, instead of executing ++ Illegal assignment of different Numeric values now caught at compile time ++ `&nextcallee` implemented, which returns the routine that `nextsame` would invoke ++ Many speedups + +The Rakudo Perl 6 compiler is now officialy in beta for the upcoming +production release around Christmas 2015. + +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. + +Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star: + +* Bailador: Add MIT License +* DBIish: Improved Windows support +* doc: More documentation; generated HTML is better searchable +* Template::Mustache: Switchted from LGPL to Artistic License 2.0 +* panda: Default action is no longer `install`; better help messages +* Digest::MD5: Now accepts non-ASCII input (internally encodes as Latin-1) +* LWP::Simple: Support for successful return codes besides 200 +* Shell::Command: `which` routine for locating executables +* Updated docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.pdf from Nov 21 + +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) + * much 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, reference +materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. A +Perl 6 tutorial is available as docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.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. diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile.in b/tools/build/Makefile.in index bf926f7..4627f45 100644 --- a/tools/build/Makefile.in +++ b/tools/build/Makefile.in @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ MOAR_DIR = moarvm NQP_DIR = nqp RAKUDO_DIR = rakudo -STAR_VERSION = 2015.09 +STAR_VERSION = 2015.11 # install location PREFIX_DIR = @prefix@ |