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Parrot 1.7.0, "African Grey" Released!

Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2009-10-23

The JIT subsystem has been removed and is being written from the ground up.
Implicit optional named parameters and continuation-based exception handlers are
deprecated and will be removed after 2.0. The Parrot Debugger documentation has
been expanded.

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Parrot 1.6.0, "half-pie" Released!

Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2009-10-23

The Parrot Compiler Toolkit is now available in the base installation. New
lexical subsystem opcodes were introduced and a new Context API was created.

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Parrot 1.5.0 "TEH PARROTZ!" Released!

Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2009-10-23

Several deprecated features and functions were removed. The Parrot Debugger was
improved. Hashes, keys, and iterators were refactored. Support for detecting
Fink and Macports was improved.

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Parrot 1.4.0 "Mundo Cani" Released!

Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2009-10-21

This release adds Key and Iterator refactoring, major pbc_to_exe-generated code speed improvements, a new "Infinite Memory" GC core for demonstration purposes, gc_debug runcore... and GC-related heisenbugfixes, simplification of PMC generation code, improved GC encapsulation and API documentation, and substantial optimizations in NCI. It eliminates variable expansion in parrot_config, fixes the installed pbc_to_exe, allows hashes to use native types as keys and values, and processes CLI arguments as Unicode by default.

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Parrot 1.3.0 "Andean Swift" Released!

Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2009-06-27

Parts of the IO system were optimized. Various memory leaks were fixed. The Parrot Book was improved and expanded.

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