From 7b16c2f951f849720c44afaa783ebdc5b1725640 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jnthn Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 22:08:27 +0200 Subject: Release announce work for 2014.04 release. --- docs/announce/2014.04 | 20 +++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/announce/2014.04 b/docs/announce/2014.04 index b4b5d51..779ebe6 100644 --- a/docs/announce/2014.04 +++ b/docs/announce/2014.04 @@ -3,24 +3,26 @@ ## 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 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable -distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the March 2014 release is +announce the April 2014 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the April 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 is the first Rakudo Star release with experimental support for -the JVM and MoarVM backend. +This is the first Rakudo Star release 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). 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 2014.03] of the +"Rakudo Perl". This Star release includes [release 2014.04] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 6.1.0 of the [Parrot Virtual -Machine], version 2014.04 of the [MoarVM], plus various modules, -documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 community. +Machine], version 2014.04 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, +documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 +community. -[release 2014.03]: - https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.03.md +[release 2014.04]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2014.04.md [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo [Parrot Virtual Machine]: http://parrot.org [MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ -- cgit v1.1