Parrot 5.4.0 "Austin Parrot" Released!

    Jimi Hendrix, deceased, drugs.
    Janis Joplin, deceased, alcohol.
    Mama Cass, deceased, ham sandwich.
        -- Austin Powers (making a list of friends from the Summer of =
Love)

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.4.0, also =
known
as "Austin Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine =
aimed
at running all dynamic languages, and currently focusing on Perl 6.

Parrot 5.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.4.0/), 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 5.4.0 News:
    - Core
        + Implemented the coth() and acot() math functions.
        + Fixed chomp to only trim a newline when it ends the string. =
[GH #958]
        + Added readlink() and Parrot_file_readlink(), with tests. [GH =
#967]
    - Build
        + Parrot now detects the CPU model on Linux systems, as well as
          detecting more CPU models on BSD, Cygwin, Solaris, Win32, and =
Darwin.
          ARM v7 is also now recognized. [GH #962]
    - Documentation
        + Threads examples now have proper POD sections and useful =
descriptions
          with links to references.
        + Added main description for Task PMC.
        + Added descriptions to trig methods in Float PMC.
    - Tests
        + Added improved test coverage targets "cover_new" and =
"fullcover_new".
        + Improved tests for acot(), coth(), acot() math functions.
        + Added tests for options passed to debugger.
        + Updated native PBC test files for string, number, and integer,
          which resolved 11 TODOs in the test suite. [GH #959]
        + Fixed test for the auto/arch config step.
    - Release process
        + Added message digests to crow.pir.
        + Added in release.json: "release.type" can be "devel" or =
"supported".
        + Refactored common code to sub in auto_release.pl.
    - Community
        + Parrot is part of the Hackathon at YAPC::NA::2013, in Austin, =
TX, USA!
            http://www.yapcna.org/yn2013/wiki?node=3DHackathons
        + Parrot has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2013!
        + Currently there are two high-quality proposals being worked =
on:
            https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408        - parrot-libgit2
            https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762 - =
App::Parrot::Create


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
4e37686911b446f5e5f2c0aa62138988ba0c411d2c5e2ba231d1a3421a85ad10 =
parrot-5.4.0.tar.gz
91d0e46fe3ef08e692e80756f26ee0e7311fe58e49d6c31f3f5180d4eb475696 =
parrot-5.4.0.tar.bz2

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 18 Jun 2013.

Enjoy!