Parrot 5.9.0 "Fantastick Parrot" Released!

    Try to remember the kind of September
    When life was slow and, oh, so mellow.
    Try to remember the kind of September
    When grass was green and grain was yellow.
        -- El Gallo in "The Fantasticks"
           (World's Longest Running Musical)

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.9.0, also =
known
as "Fantastick Parrot".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual =
machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 5.9.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/supported/5.9.0/), 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 5.9.0 News:
    - Core
        + Don't complain about utf8 multibyte characters split by chunk =
boundaries
        + Fixed readall SEGV at eof, e.g. when calling readall twice [GH =
#981]
        + Fixed SEGV when .const not found. [GH #996]
        + Added PackfileView-compatible methods to EvalPMC. [GH #937] =
(Temporary)
    - Build
        + Fixed MacOSX -Wno-long-double warning [GH #980]
    - Testing
        + Sorted hash keys to allow better diffs between runs of `make =
fulltest`.
    - Branches
        + The new-packfile-api branch with the final removal of the =
EvalPMC
          is ready and will most likely land in 5.10.0
    - Documentation
        + Fixed and improved the documentation about Parrot_str_new
    - Community
        + Zefram reported 31 issues. Thanks a lot!
        + All three of our GSoC students completed their projects, and =
passed
          their finals with flying colors. Congratulations! Their weekly =
reports
          are available here:
            =3D Saurabh Kumar - "Update parrot-libgit2 to latest libgit2 =
release"
                http://www.parrot.org/tags/parrot-libgit2
            =3D Pawe=C5=82 Murias - "A Javascript backend for Rakudo"
                http://parrot.org/blog/1850
            =3D Denis Boyun  - "Improve Web UI of App::Parrot::Create"
                http://parrot.org/blog/1843


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
52d2e7c33ba9b2c3ed692738af8a27b13c838d45790cee0609e116c724d3d7b4 =
parrot-5.9.0.tar.gz
b4704231d90ddec827f45f945b9ad13dd4f9dc7cc9bc0cfc97ab6e30ec1c38ca =
parrot-5.9.0.tar.bz2

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 19 Nov 2013.

Enjoy!