From 011e894b2dc1b9cdb64ddc61ee7855559e12b40b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Mynott Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 10:14:24 +0000 Subject: import new announce & tweak docs --- README | 4 +-- docs/announce/2018.01.md | 78 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2018.01.md diff --git a/README b/README index 9950b6c..59077a8 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ -This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Perl 6 production distribution. +This is Rakudo Star, a useful, usable Rakudo Perl 6 production distribution. -This is the 2017.10 release of Rakudo Star for the 6.c version of Perl 6. +This is the 2018.01 release of Rakudo Star for the 6.c version of Perl 6. Rakudo Star is Copyright (C) 2010 - 2018 by the Rakudo Star Team. diff --git a/docs/announce/2018.01.md b/docs/announce/2018.01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac9343c --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2018.01.md @@ -0,0 +1,78 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2018.01 + +## A useful and usable production distribution of Rakudo Perl 6 + +On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm pleased to announce +the January 2018 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production +distribution of Rakudo Perl 6. The tarball for this release is available from +. + +Binaries for macOS and Windows (64 bit) are also available at the same +location. + +This is a 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). Currently, Star is on a quarterly release cycle. + +IMPORTANT: "panda" has been removed from releases after 2017.10 since it is +deprecated. Please use "zef" instead. + +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 6". + +This Star release includes [release 2018.01] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], +version 2018.01 [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and other +resources collected from the Perl 6 community. + +[release 2018.01]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rakudo/rakudo/2018.01/docs/announce/2018.01.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ + +The Rakudo compiler changes since the last Rakudo Star release of 2017.10 are +now listed in "2017.11.md", "2017.12.md", and "2018.01.md" under the +"rakudo/docs/announce" directory of the source distribution. + +Important Rakudo bug fixes are now listed at +[Perl 6 Alerts]: https://alerts.perl6.org/ + +Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star: + + + JSON-Class: Alter the way in which the re-exporting of the traits works + + JSON-Marshal: Fix for associative and positional type objects + + Pod-To-HTML: Document P6DOC\_DEBUG + + doc: Too many to list. + + json\_fast: fix off-by-one in treacherous escape detection + + perl6-lwp-simple: HTML header names with mixed case fix + + svg: Fix example in README + + tap-harness6: Make TAP parsing loose by default before rakudo 2017.09 in prove too + + zef: Warns about missing META6.json. Sort "list" output. + +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 + * some bits of Synopsis 9 and 11 + +There is an online resource at +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 . + +See for links to much more information about +Perl 6, including documentation, example code, tutorials, presentations, +reference materials, design documents, and other supporting resources. +Some Perl 6 tutorials are available under the "docs" directory 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 +, ask on the +mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- cgit v1.1