Parrot 5.5.0 "Salvadori's Fig Parrot" Released!

Obi-Wan: That boy is our last hope.
Yoda: No. There is another.
    -- Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.5.0, also =
known
as "Salvadori's Fig Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual =
machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 5.5.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.5.0/), 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 5.5.0 News:
    - Build
        + Configure options are now allowed to be quoted.
        + Fixed build on Win32.
        + Updated location of NQP on Win32.
        + Fixed Parrot::Distribution detection.
    - Documentation
        + Noted that RESPONSIBLE_PARTIES is mostly out of date.
    - Tests
        + Stopped testing native PBC on 64bit LE, due to lack of access =
to
          such machine.
    - Release
        + Added tool: make_upload_commands.pl
    - Community
        + Parrot has been awarded 3 student slots in Google Summer of =
Code 2013!
          This means that 3 lucky students will be on a paid internship =
from
          Google to work on these accepted proposals:
          =3D Saurabh Kumar - "Update parrot-libgit2 to latest libgit2 =
release"
              https://gist.github.com/sa1/5468408
              =
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/saurabh=
_kgp/11002
          =3D Pawe=C5=82 Murias - "A Javascript backend for Rakudo"
            =
http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/pmurias=
/9002
          =3D Denis Boyun  - "Improve Web UI of App::Parrot::Create"
              https://gist.github.com/denisboyun/5472762
              =
https://google-melange.appspot.com/gsoc/proposal/review/google/gsoc2013/ch=
ob_rock/9001
        + YAPC::NA::2013 hosted 4 days of Hackathon, focusing on the =
next
          generation of Perl implementations.
          =3D Huge Success!
        + MoarVM was unveiled:
            https://github.com/MoarVM
        + P2 on Potion was debuted:
            http://perl11.org/p2/


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
408a45660483499106a35107a836a80da27269a6d54bb114ba6e2249b2b9e9da =
parrot-5.5.0.tar.gz
eb7b7d461e627673e77f5e875154506054ce9950d63b263875d9272c7814fd30 =
parrot-5.5.0.tar.bz2

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 16 Jul 2013.

Enjoy!