FYI, there is now 2016.01.1 release; This has the addition of one patch that provides greater support for those trying to package a Rakudo Perl 6 installation.
Regards. On Tue, Feb 2, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Will Coleda <w...@coleda.com> wrote: > On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the > January 2016 release of Rakudo Perl 6 #95. Rakudo is an implementation of > Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1]. > > This is the first post-Christmas release of Rakudo Perl 6, and continues > to implement Perl v6.c. It includes bugfixes and optimizations on top of > the 2015.12 release of Rakudo, but no new features. > > Thanks to all the individuals, companies, and organizations who donated > money, services, equipment, or their employee's time to the effort. > This includes efforts going back to 2000 over multiple Perl 6 related > projects. As with our developer list on the Christmas release, our > sincere apologies to anyone who was accidentally left off this list. > > * ActiveState > * BBC > * Blackstar > * Booking.com > * craigslist > * Richard Dice of Toronto.pm > * Dijkmat > * Edument > * ETH Zürich > * Google Summer of Code (https://developers.google.com/open-source/gsoc/) > * Ian Hague > * Manning Publications > * Morgan Stanley > * Mozilla > * NLNet > * noris network AG > * O'Reilly Media > * Frédéric Schütz of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics > * Stonehenge Consulting > * The Perl Foundation > * TPF's Perl 6 Core Development Fund sponsors > (http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl_6_core_development_fund) > * VA Linux > * WenZPerl > * Fritz Zaucker of Oetiker+Partner AG > > Upcoming releases in 2016 will include new functionality that is not > part of the v6.c specification, available with a lexically scoped > pragma. Our goal is to insure that anything that is tested as part of the > v6.c spec will continue to work unchanged. There may be incremental > spec releases this year as well. > > The tarball for this release is available from > <http://rakudo.org/downloads/rakudo/>. > > Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star > distribution[^2] --- it’s announcing a new release of the compiler > only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see > <http://rakudo.org/downloads/star/>. > > The Rakudo Perl compiler follows a monthly release cycle, but please bear > with us post-Christmas. We are working hard to insure that we don’t break > anything now that we have a released spec, and it make take us a few months > to settle back into a rhythm. > > The changes in this release are outlined below: > > New in 2016.01: > + 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 > > The following people contributed to this release: > > Geoffrey Broadwell, Piers Cawley, Paul Cochrane, Will "Coke" Coleda, > Panu Ervamaa , Lloyd Fournier, Rob Hoelz, Donald Hunter, Dan Kogai, > Tobias Leich, Moritz Lenz, Nick Logan, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, > Elizabeth Mattijsen, Pawel Murias, Steve Mynott , Anthony Parsons, > Nova Patch, Timo Paulssen, Francois Perrad, Dave Rolsky, Stefan Seifert, > skids, John Spurr, Tommy Stanton, Jonathan Stowe, Larry Wall, David Warring, > Andy Weidenbaum, Bart Wiegmans, Jonathan Worthington, Jimmy Zhuo > > If you would like to contribute or find out more information, visit > <http://perl6.org>, <http://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the > <perl6-compi...@perl.org> mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode. > > The next release of Rakudo (#96), is tentatively scheduled for 20 February > 2015. > > A list of the other planned release dates and code names for future > releases is available in the “docs/release_guide.pod” file. > > The development team appreciates feedback! If you’re using Rakudo, do > get back to us. Questions, comments, suggestions for improvements, cool > discoveries, incredible hacks, or any other feedback -- get in touch with > us through (the above-mentioned) mailing list or IRC channel. Enjoy! > > Please note that recent releases have known issues running on the JVM. > We are working to get the JVM backend working again but do not yet have > an estimated delivery date. > > [^1]: See <http://moarvm.org/> > > [^2]: What’s the difference between the Rakudo compiler and the Rakudo > Star distribution? > > The Rakudo compiler is a compiler for the Perl 6 language. > Not much more. > > The Rakudo Star distribution is the Rakudo compiler plus a selection > of useful Perl 6 modules, a module installer, the most recent > incarnation of the “Using Perl 6” book, and other software that can > be used with the Rakudo compiler to enhance its utility. Rakudo Star > is meant for early adopters who wish to explore what’s possible with > Rakudo Perl 6 and provide feedback on what works, what doesn’t, and > what else they would like to see included in the distribution. > > > -- > Will "Coke" Coleda -- Will "Coke" Coleda
