From c46312ab4f1bd53cfe4a68ef618a83b4d3405b25 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Moritz Lenz Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 17:30:59 +0100 Subject: Add release announcement for 2015.01 --- docs/announce/2015.01.md | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 79 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/announce/2015.01.md diff --git a/docs/announce/2015.01.md b/docs/announce/2015.01.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2cd814 --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/announce/2015.01.md @@ -0,0 +1,79 @@ +# Announce: Rakudo Star Release 2015.01 + +## 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 January 2015 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable +distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the January 2015 release is +available from . + +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). +Three shipped modules are known to fail on Parrot (zavolaj (NativeCall), +jsonrpc and doc) + +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 2015.01.1] of the +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler], version 7.0.1 of the [Parrot Virtual +Machine], version 2015.01 of [MoarVM], plus various modules, +documentation, and other resources collected from the Perl 6 +community. + +[release 2015.01.1]: + https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/nom/docs/announce/2015.01.md +[Rakudo Perl 6 compiler]: http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo +[Parrot Virtual Machine]: http://parrot.org +[MoarVM]: http://moarvm.org/ + +Some of the new compiler features added to this release include: + ++ Many improvements to Java interop for the JVM backend ++ New simple way of creating an object hash: :{} ++ Substitution now supports assignment meta-op, e.g. s[\d+] += 2 ++ Many memory and CPU optimizations ++ Supply.for deprecated in favour of Supply.from-list + +Changes to modules included in Rakudo Star: + +- [Bailador](https://github.com/tadzik/Bailador) handles POST and URL params separately +- [ÐBIish](https://github.com/perl6/DBIish) has improved error reporting on SQLite +- [doc](https://github.com/perl6/doc) ships with much more documentation +- [panda](https://github.com/tadzik/panda) has a new command `installdeps` +- [Pod::To::HTML](https://github.com/perl6/Pod-To-HTML) now supports callbacks for code areas +- [HTTP::Easy](https://github.com/supernovus/perl6-http-easy) has received a few algorithm optimizations that made it faster. + +In the next Rakudo Star release, modules `Math::RungeKutta` and `Math::Model` +will likely be dropped. They can still be installed with `panda`. + +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 (in progress for the JVM and MoarVM backend) + * 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 +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