From b59cefe3bc2dd34daf5e62084e5635c6acb066f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Steve Mynott Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2016 11:04:57 +0000 Subject: import of Rakudo Star 2016.01 announce --- docs/announce/2016.01.md | 102 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 102 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2016.01.md diff --git a/docs/announce/2016.01.md b/docs/announce/2016.01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c6a8332 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2016.01.md @@ -0,0 +1,102 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2016.01 + +## A useful and usable production distribution of Perl 6 + +On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce +the January 2016 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable production +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2016 release is available +from . + +This is the first 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). + +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 2016.01.1] of the [Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version +2016.01 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, documentation, and other resources +collected from the Perl 6 community. + +[release 2016.01]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2016.01.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ + +Some of the new compiler features since the last Rakudo Star release include: + ++ Chained .grep calls on Supply fixed (RT #127297) ++ Fixed interaction with perl6-debug and precompilation that resulted in an + endless loop ++ re-enabled warning when smart-matching against a True or False literal ++ Fixed internal error when reporting certain type errors (RT #127207) ++ Fixed rare "duplicate definition of symbol" errors (RT #127107) ++ Fixed interpolating of pairs with non-key strings into signatures ++ Fixed error when smart-matching Seq against a Set (RT #127166) ++ Improved error message when smart-matching against an S///-expression ++ Fixed bad interaction between EXPORTHOW and multiple declarations (RT #126566) ++ Fixed various issues regarding precompilation ++ Improved accuracy of Complex.sqrt ++ hyper now preserves order of results, as designed ++ Range.sum on an empty, numeric Range is now 0 ++ Fixed Promise.allof() with an empty list of promises (RT #127101) ++ Improved message on premature virtual method call (RT #127097) ++ Better error message for module load failures of types that are part of + the setting ++ Support for Readline in addition to Linenoise ++ Initial shaped array support ++ \r\n (Carriage Return/LineFeed) is now a single (synthetic) grapheme ++ Unicode support adheres to Unicode Annex #29 ++ Unicode quotes are now also allowed in regular expressions ++ Improved newline support with "use newline" and updates to IO::Handle ++ Added List.head, List.tail, List.repeated methods ++ Str.encode now allows :replacement parameter for unencodable sequences ++ Str.split now accepts multiple strings to split on ++ New Range.int-bounds returns first/last value for integer ranges ++ Auto-generated meta-ops vivified by referring to them, instead of executing ++ Illegal assignment of different Numeric values now caught at compile time ++ &nextcallee implemented, which returns the routine that nextsame would invoke ++ Many speedups + +Notable changes in modules shipped with Rakudo Star: + +* Bailador: The PSGI module by default now sets p6sgi instead of psgi +* DBIish: Many fixes +* Digest::MD5: Updated to conform to new newline handling +* doc: p6doc -l added. p6doc now works for most non-core docs with pod +* LWP::Simple: Replace "as Int" with proper coercion type to fix build +* Linenoise: Many fixes +* MIME::Base64: Adjust to pack being made experimental +* panda: Large number of precomp and other bug fixes. Now depends on 6.c +* Template::Mojo: use MONKEY-SEE-NO-EVAL +* Shell::Command: removed "as" + +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) + * much 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, reference +materials, specification documents, and other supporting resources. A +Perl 6 tutorial is available as docs/2015-spw-perl6-course.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