News and announcements
Parrot 0.8.2 released
Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2008-12-18
Performance was improved, including startup time. Many bugs were fixed.
Automatic resume for nonfatal exceptions was added. Various enhancements were
made to the languages Rakudo (Perl6), Lua, Pipp (PHP) and Ecmascript.
Parrot 0.8.1 released
Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2008-11-19
The Native Call Interface (NCI) signatures are now JITted on x86-32 platforms (Windows and Linux). All known memory leaks in PIR "Hello, world!" are fixed. The language implementations Rakudo (Perl6), Pipp (PHP) and Cardinal (Ruby) have seen various improvements.
Parrot 0.8.0 released
Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2008-10-22
Many improvements in the implementation, Cardinal (Ruby), Rakudo (Perl 6), P6object, PCT/PGE, and PIRC. Chapters for PCT, PMCs, and Opcodes/Runcores have been added to the book.
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Parrot 0.7.1 released
Written for Parrot by Ronald Blaschke on 2008-09-17
Preliminary support for resumable exceptions was added. Rakudo (Perl 6) now passes over 3300 spectests and supports precompiled modules and scripts. Cardinal (Ruby) features 'require' and precompiled modules, as well as many new tests. Includes many updates and cleanups to the design documents.
