From 2a32ff7baee70145716be774865ebe659675438a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tobias Leich Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 20:22:49 +0200 Subject: add release announcement for 2014.09 --- docs/announce/2014.09.md | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 72 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2014.09.md diff --git a/docs/announce/2014.09.md b/docs/announce/2014.09.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3df3afb --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2014.09.md @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2014.09 + +## 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 September 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the September 2014 release is +available from . A Windows .MSI +version of Rakudo star will usually appear in the downloads area +shortly after the tarball release. + +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 (some module tests fail). +Two shipped modules are known to fail on Parrot (JSON::RPC and p6doc). + +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 2014.09] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 6.7.0 of the [Parrot Virtual +Machine], version 2014.09 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, +documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 +community. + +[release 2014.09]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.09.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[Parrot Virtual Machine]: http://parrot.org +[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ + +Some of the new features added to this release include: + +* panda (the module installer client) does work on windows again +* panda knows about all modules, that are shipped with this release +* ./perl6 --profile for MoarVM +* Workaround OS X make bug for MoarVM +* support for submethod DESTROY (MoarVM only) +* optimizations to Str.words, Str.lines, IO.lines, chomp, and return +* added experimental support for Proc::Async, MoarVM only for now +* Reduced memory size of CORE.setting, improved startup time +* startup (on Moar) 15% faster than p5 w/ Moose + +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 + * much of Synopsis 9 and 11 + +There is an online resource at +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 . + +See 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 +, ask on the +mailing list, or join us on IRC \#perl6 on freenode. -- cgit v1.1