Parrot 5.1.0 "Zombie Parrot" Released!

	Flat on the bunk again, he ran for his life. The Parrot stalked =
him
	through the grey hours of morning, smoothing its fractal =
feathers,
	shuffling itself slowly into clarity as though at the end of a
	flashy film-dissolve, until at last his mind's eye had to =
acknowledge
	a shape,
		a shape,
			a wink
-- =46rom BLIT, a short story by David Langford
	http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/blit.htm

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.1.0, also =
known
as "Zombie Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine =
aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 5.1.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/supported/5.1.0/), or by =
following the
download instructions at http://parrot.org/download.  For those who =
would like
to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend using =
Git to
retrieve the source code to get the latest and best Parrot code.

Parrot 5.1.0 News:
   - Core
       + The .sort() method was added to the FixedFloatArray PMC
       + Improved detection of system memory for machines with >2GB
       + Improved pbc_to_exe support for spacey paths
       + Fixed Parrot_io_readall_s allocating too much string space
   - Build
       + Fixed generated MANIFEST files to omit $destdir
   - Documentation
   - Tests
       + .readall now checks that prior reads are respected.
   - Community
       + Weekly IRC meetings have resumed. #parrotsketch Tuesdays at =
1930 UTC

The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
af26c2fcc806505ec516ebb013bdd37b218633f5fe63faaa6b843ffe55e0135e =
parrot-5.1.0.tar.bz2
2483963c1bec665be772cb40a71fd3d9d2621feca547932475017c81a2f7e49b =
parrot-5.1.0.tar.gz

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 19 Mar 2013.

Enjoy!

--=20
Bruce Gray (Util of PerlMonks)