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diff --git a/docs/announce/2016.07.md b/docs/announce/2016.07.md index e5eae4c..2674f69 100644 --- a/docs/announce/2016.07.md +++ b/docs/announce/2016.07.md @@ -2,24 +2,26 @@ ## A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 -On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce -the July 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2016 release is available -from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. +On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to +announce the July 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2016 release +is available from <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. This is the third post-Christmas (production) release of Rakudo Star and -implements Perl v6.c. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend (all module -tests pass on supported platforms). +implements Perl v6.c. It comes with support for the MoarVM backend (all +module tests pass on supported platforms). -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. +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". This Star +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 2016.07] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version -2016.07 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources -collected from the Perl 6 community. +release includes [release 2016.07] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], +version 2016.07 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and +other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. [release 2016.07]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rakudo/rakudo/2016.07/docs/announce/2016.07.md [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo |