particle writes "On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.4.8, "Eponymous." Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.
You may now grab Parrot 0.4.8 from the CPAN.
New in 0.4.8:
- Compilers:
- HLLCompiler: added tracing options, modified api
- PGE & TGE bugfixes and updates
- PAST:
- added global and lexical variable support
- added looping constructs, arrays, hashes
- Languages:
- Updated PHP ("Plumhead"), Tcl ("ParTcl"),
forth, perl6, lua, abc, APL, WMLScript, punie
- ParTcl is passing > 24.9% of Tcl cvs-latest test suite
- perl6 now supports hashes, arrays, method calls, arity-based
multisubs, quoted terms, ranges (non-lazy), try blocks, $!
- Design:
- Updated PHP ("Plumhead"), Tcl
- PDD01 "Overview" — updated
- PDD22 "I/O" — rewritten and approved
- Test Suite:
- Updated PHP ("Plumhead"), Tcl
- Converted Perl 5 Regex tests to PIR, with notable speedup
- Added tests for opcodes, compilers, languages, and coding standards
- Build:
- Updated PHP ("Plumhead"), Tcl
- Major improvements in test coverage for 'pmc2c.pl'
- Misc:
- Updated PHP ("Plumhead"), Tcl
- many bugfixes, enhancements, and coding standard updates
- extended support for non-core platforms including Tru64
If you'd like to develop on Parrot (or help develop Parrot itself), we recommend that you keep up with the latest and best Parrot code by using
Subversion or
SVK to access
our source code repository; see
instructions.
Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors for supporting this project.
Share & Enjoy!
~particle"
