Parrot 6.4.0 "Double-eyed Fig Parrot" released!

Bruce Gray <[email protected]> Tue, 27 May 2014 14:02:34 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.perl6.announce
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(Dateline: 2014-05-21)

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 6.4.0, also =
known
as "Double-eyed Fig Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual =
machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 6.4.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/6.4.0/), 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 6.4.0 News:
   - Examples
       + Enhance shootout/regexdna.pir to test GC write barrier crashes
   - Community
       + Our GSOC project did officially start. See =
https://github.com/ZYROz/parrot


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
025bfe953211d09af6a4d80b13b4e7fef2bfaa055963b76f1bf674440c0cdbba =
parrot-6.4.0.tar.gz
419ddbd4c82b08e4ab1670a67c2a222120d34090413e2d4ecef9cb35f9b0bef0 =
parrot-6.4.0.tar.bz2

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 17 Jun 2014.

Enjoy!