Parrot 5.3.0 "W00tstock Parrot" Released!

We are stardust.
Billion year old carbon.
We are golden.
Caught in the devil's bargain
And we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.
(To some semblance of a garden.)
   -- "Woodstock", by Joni Mitchell

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.3.0, also =
known
as "W00tstock Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine =
aimed
at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6.

Parrot 5.3.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.3.0/), 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 5.3.0 News:
   - Build
       + Files generated by `make cover` are now correctly cleaned by =
`make`
         and ignored by `git`.
   - Tests
       + Internal testing of the Configure probe for Fink now works =
correctly
         with the --verbose flag.
       + Tests added for .sort method of ResizableFloatArray and
         ResizableIntegerArray. [GH #926], [GH #927]
       + Benchmarks added for .sort methods of various Array objects.
         [GH #175]
       + Coverage analysis added for pbc_disassemble.


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
79d6f1fe20645b0afbc496cd0d7850a78b8940230e7637c5356d780f5aa1750b =
parrot-5.3.0.tar.gz
4cff32521c79d8a783ad57d9a13e205ea3c1b1585085e0da80138b58b77d0ed5 =
parrot-5.3.0.tar.bz2

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 21 May 2013.

Enjoy!