Parrot 5.6.0 "Psittacosaurus" Released!

[email protected] (Bruce Gray) Tue, 16 Jul 2013 22:59:27 -0500
Newsgroups perl.perl6.language,perl.perl6.announce
Message-ID <[email protected]>
   Psittacosaurus (...from the Greek for "parrot lizard")...
   notable for being the most species-rich dinosaur genus.

   Psittacosaurus is not as familiar to the general public
   as its distant relative Triceratops but it is one of the
   most completely known dinosaur genera.
       -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psittacosaurus

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.6.0, also =
known
as "Psittacosaurus".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine =
aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 5.6.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/5.6.0/), 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 5.6.0 News:
   - Build
       + Makefile dependencies are now compatible with VMS make.
   - Documentation
       + The main README is now more helpful.


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
8e2d2ddaff36c2c960236c94f868f0eea28740e306345ee42df84bcd9aa146a6 =
parrot-5.6.0.tar.gz
5cd1a7d413eee32fa9d1218b8475d810fbc7a80c4112a5590c8b060255f95fd7 =
parrot-5.6.0.tar.bz2

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 20 Aug 2013.

Enjoy!