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diff --git a/docs/announce/2015.03.md b/docs/announce/2015.03.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d1ee6c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2015.03.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.03 + +## 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 March 2015 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 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) along with +experimental support for the JVM backend (the modules Bailador, +Digest::MD5 and Grammar::Profiler::Simple are known to fail tests). + +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 2015.03] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 2015.03 of [MoarVM], plus various +modules, documentation, and other resources collected from the +Perl 6 community. + +[release 2015.03]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2015.03.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ + +Some of the new compiler features added to this release include: + ++ several renames of semi-internal methods. Please refer to [the Rakudo + 2015.02 release notes](https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2015.03.md) for the full list ++ Allow Buf.AT-POS to return an l-value. ++ Implement method ^foo($) { ... } syntax. ++ Implemented PairMap (the simple case only, for now). ++ Implemented .antipairs (pairs with value => key). ++ Implemented .pairup for creating pairs from lists. ++ Implemented LEXICAL, OUTERS and CALLERS pseudo-packages ++ Add a array[T], usable for native int/num (MoarVM only for now) ++ Other native improvements, e.g. my int $a; $a++ ++ Implement IO::Path.resolve on r-m/POSIX + +In future, the `nqp::` namespace willl only be available after a declaration +like `use nqp;`. + +Changes to modules included in Rakudo Star: + +- [DBIish](https://github.com/perl6/DBIish) supports local Sockets on mysql, + and now correctly handles returned NULL values in the Pg backend +- [doc](https://github.com/perl6/doc) ships with much more documentation + +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 (in progress for the JVM and MoarVM backend) + * Unicode strings at levels other than codepoints + * interactive readline that understands Unicode + * 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 +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. |