Parrot 6.8.0 "Little Lorikeet" released!

Lories and lorikeets (tribe Lorini) are small to medium-sized arboreal
parrots characterized by their specialized brush-tipped tongues for =
feeding
on nectar of various blossoms and soft fruits, preferably berries.
   -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lories_and_lorikeets
       (Parrots that eat like hummingbirds!)

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 6.8.0, also =
known
as "Little Lorikeet".  Parrot (http://parrot.org/) is a virtual machine =
aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 6.8.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(ftp://ftp.parrot.org/pub/parrot/releases/devel/6.8.0/), 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 6.8.0 News:
   - Build
       + pbc_to_exe created executables use now the absolute execname on =
most platforms
         and not only argv[0] which needs to be looked up in the path. =
[GH #1088]
   - Documentation
       + Fix various new podchecker syntax errors with the new =
Pod::Simple 3.28
   - Tests
       + Update embedded Pod::Simple to 3.28 to fix the missing =
whiteline_handler method
         from non-embedded podchecker [GH #1089]
       + Skip 3 crashing codingstd tests with 5.8 DEBUGGING [GH #1090]


The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:
986a0e543e660e83595a3c477b7b7f065099edb559d74c56f61d88e216042f4e =
parrot-6.8.0.tar.gz
d8db85a305e61babf9f3c23ddd31dffebb8cc7ccd730abcd618eb0fbbad64b6a =
parrot-6.8.0.tar.bz2

Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our =
sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is at 21 Oct =
2014.

Enjoy!