From 4a863302b91d8a32874b6080a1cbd8ac76d2de5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Mynott Date: Sat, 21 Jan 2017 20:52:27 +0000 Subject: draft announce --- docs/announce/2017.01.md | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 83 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2017.01.md diff --git a/docs/announce/2017.01.md b/docs/announce/2017.01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4528255 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2017.01.md @@ -0,0 +1,83 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2017.01 + +## 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 November 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +production distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2017 release +is available from . + +Binaries for macOS and Windows are also available. + +This is the sixth 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). + +This is the first Rakudo Star release to include "zef" as module installer. +"panda" is to be shortly replaced by "zef" and will be removed in the near +future. + +It's hoped to produce quarterly Rakudo Star releases during 2017 with 2017.04 +(April), 2017.07 (July) and 2017.10 (October) to follow. + +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 release includes [release 2017.01] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], +version 2017.01 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and other +resources collected from the Perl 6 community. + +[release 2017.01]: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rakudo/rakudo/2017.01/docs/announce/2017.01.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 2016.11 are +now listed in "2016.12.md" and "2017.01.md" under the "rakudo/docs/announce" +directory of the source distribution. + +Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star: + + + DBIish: Pg: TypeConverter post-merge cleanup + + Linenoise: Remove dependency on Native::Resources + + Pod-To-HTML: Bump version for #22 fix + + Terminal-ANSIColor: Drop 'nqp' dependency + + doc: Too many to list + + json: Fix parsing of string literals with a leading combining character. + + json\_fast: bump version since we now escape null bytes + + panda: modified to warn of its removal in the short term + + perl6-http-easy: Several pull requests merged + + perl6-lwp-simple: Tweak tests to work with TAP::Harness + + perl6-pod-to-bigpage: bump version + + test-mock: Bump version. + + zef: imported + +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) + * 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