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Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 13:51:19 +0200
From: Reini Urban <rurban AT x-ray DOT at>
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Subject: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: parrot-2.6.0-1 (and parrot-devel, parrot-docs)
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I updated the Cygwin distribution of parrot-2.6.0-1.
This is a stable, a so-called "supported" release.

Canonical homepage:
   http://www.parrot.org/

Canonical download:
   http://www.parrot.org/release/current

My repo:
http://code.google.com/p/cygwin-rurban/source/browse/#svn/trunk/release/parrot

Packaging Details:
* No changes.
* Tested together with rakudo-201007_47-1 (waiting for rakudo-star)
   and rakudo-star-201007-1 (ITP)

New in 2.6.0
- Core
   + Plug some memory leaks
   + As always, bug fixes and some optimizations
- Runtime
   + added (experimental) URI::Escape
- Testing
   + Improved test coverage of core parrot
- Documentation
   + Updated the Squaak tutorial to use modern NQP-rx and PCT
- Platforms
   + The Fedora package 'parrot-devel' install the files for 
syntax-highlighting
     and automatic indenting for the vim editor
- NQP-rx
   + Updated version included from http://github.com/perl6/nqp-rx includes
     new or improved: regex backtracking, named assertions, interactive 
mode,
     and setting (a minimal but useful runtime library)

New in 2.5.0
- Core
   + Added ByteBuffer PMC to allow direct byte manipulation
   + Modified some PMC vtable functions to reduce complexity, 
simplifying coverage.
   + Modified PAST to generate symbolic PASM constants in PIR output.
   + General STRING API cleanups
   + Increased test coverage of core PMCs
   + Fixed up 'exit' opcode, added CONTROL_EXIT exception type.
   + Experimental 'unroll' opcode renamed to 'finalize'
- NQP-rx
   + Added proper support for multisubs and multimethods
   + Fixed sigspace handling ** quantifier in regexes
   + Added \e strings
   + Added use of inversion lists for charclass lists in regexes
- Platforms
   + EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) packages for RHEL6.beta 
are available
- Begin moving towards Lorito, the ops refactor to enable pervasive 
self-hosting and JIT compilation.
   + All ops are now built with the self-hosted opsc compiler.
   + For more Information about Lorito see:
       http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/Lorito
       http://trac.parrot.org/parrot/wiki/LoritoRoadmap

New in 2.4.0
- Core
   + Various long-standing bugs in IMCC were fixed
   + STRINGs are now immutable.
   + use STRINGNULL instead of NULL when working with strings
   + Fixed storage of methods in the NameSpace PMC
   + Added :nsentry flag to force method to be stored in the NameSpace
   + Added StringBuilder and PackfileDebug PMCs
   + Added experimental opcodes find_codepoint and unroll
- Compilers
   + Fixed reporting of line numbers in IMCC
   + Removed deprecated NQP compiler, replaced with new NQP-RX
   + Removed NCIGen compiler
- Deprecations
   + Tools to distribute on CPAN were removed
   + Deprecated dynpmcs have been removed to external repositories
   + Removed RetContinuation PMC
   + Removed CGoto, CGP, and Switch runcores
- Tests
   + Many tests for the extend/embed interface were added
   + done_testing() is now implemented in Test::More
- Tools
   + The fakexecutable tapir is renamed parrot-prove
   + Performance fixes to the pbc_to_exe tool
   + Fix data_json to work outside of trunk
   + The dynpmc GzipHandle (zlib wrapper) was added
   + The library Archive/Tar.pir was added.
   + The library Archive/Zip.pir was added.
   + The libraries LWP.pir, HTTP/Message.pir & URI.pir were added.
- Miscellaneous
   + Six Parrot-related projects accepted to GSoC
   + Improve use of const and other compiler hints


=====================================================================

To update your installation, click on the "Install Cygwin now" link on
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system.  Once you've downloaded setup.exe, run it and select "Editors"
or "Text" and then click on the appropriate fields until the above
announced version numbers appear if they are not displayed already.

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