Parrot 3.6.0 "Pájaros del Caribe" Released

We are proud to announce Parrot 3.6.0, also known as "P=C3=A1jaros del=20
Caribe". Parrot is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languag=
es.

Parrot 3.6.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site, or by following the=20
download instructions. For those who want to hack on Parrot or languages=20
that run on top of Parrot, we recommend our organization page on GitHub,=20
or you can go directly to the official Parrot Git repo on Github.

To clone the the Parrot Git repo into a directory called 'parrot', use=20
the following:

     git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git

If you want it to be in a directory other than 'parrot', then just give=20
that as a second
argument to clone:

     git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git parrot_foo

Parrot 3.6.0 News:

- Core
   + Class.add_vtable_override now allows you to overwrite an override
   + Integers, floats and strings can now be stored in lexical variables.
     Previously, only PMCs could be stored in lexicals.
   + VTABLE_substr has been removed. VTABLE_substr_str has been renamed t=
o
     VTABLE_substr
   + Added a new PackfileView PMC type, an intended replacement for the=20
deprecated
     Eval PMC.
   + The is_integer vtable on the String PMC now works for all string=20
encodings.
   + Unicode error messages on Win32 now work correctly.
   + A memory leak in IMCC was fixed.
- Languages
   + The snaphost of Winxed included with Parrot was updated to version=20
1.0.0
   + Winxed has migrated to Github: https://github.com/NotFound/winxed

The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:

a6ae5c4a1af3602043d1139a12ae9d4dfe2dd000250b1a76fc339bf4a004f8c7=20
parrot-3.6.0.tar.bz2
8280930a12a66c384b397b31482df2efc1fcc65efd723b279c71b1e283c2638f=20
parrot-3.6.0.tar.gz

Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our=20
sponsors for supporting this project. The following people (in random=20
order) contributed to this release. Thanks!

Julian Albo, Matt Boyle, Vasily Chekalkin, chromatic, Will Coleda, Bruce=20
Gray, Brian Gernhardt, Michael H. Hind, James E Keenan, Bob Kuo, Andy=20
Lester, Jonathan "Duke" Leto, Peter Lobsinger, Patrick Michaud,=20
Christoph Otto, Felipe Pena, Francois Perrad, Gerd Pokorra, Kevin=20
Polulak, Tadeusz So=C5=9Bnierz, Andrew Whitworth, Jonathan Worthington.

Our next release is 16 August 2011.

Did you think we were going to leave without a quotation? Wrong!

     "El concierto de tantos p=C3=A1jaros distinto lleg=C3=B3 a ser tan a=
turdidor,=20
que =C3=9Arsula se tap=C3=B3 los o=C3=ADdos con cera de abejas para no pe=
rder el=20
sentido de la realidad. La primera vez que lleg=C3=B3 la tribu de Melqu=C3=
=ADades=20
vendiendo bolas de vidrio para el dolor de cabeza, todo el mundo se=20
sorprendi=C3=B3 de que hubieran podido encontrar aquella aldea perdida en=
 el=20
sopor de la ci=C3=A9naga, y los gitanos confesaron que se hab=C3=ADan ori=
entado=20
por en canto de los p=C3=A1jaros."

The Release Manager will offer a public commendation and a suitable=20
prize to the first person who correctly identifies the source of this=20
quotation WITHOUT USING THE INTERNET. Send your determination of the=20
source to jkeenan at cpan dot org and testify that you did not use the=20
http(s) protocol, directly or indirectly, in researching the source.

Enjoy!

James E Keenan
jkeenan at cpan dot org; IRC #parrot kid51
Release Manager, Parrot 3.6.0