Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release 2019.03.1

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From: Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Subject: Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 compiler, Release 2019.03.1

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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm announcing an
out-of-schedule release of the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler.
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Moar Virtual Machine[^1].

This release is a point release in addition to the regular, monthly
releases. Rakudo 2019.03 (note: no .1) was discovered to have issues
on Windows where calling certain methods on `$*KERNEL`
(like `$*KERNEL.bits`) would throw instead of returning a proper
value. This release is for Windows users only: users on other systems
do not need to update, but are of course welcome to.

The tarball for this release is available from
<https://rakudo.org/files/rakudo>.

Please note: This announcement is not for the Rakudo Star
distribution[^2] =E2=80=94 it=E2=80=99s announcing a new release of the c=
ompiler
only. For the latest Rakudo Star release, see
<https://rakudo.org/files/star>.

The changes in this release are outlined below:

New in 2019.03.1:
=C2=A0 + Fixes:
=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 + Fixed issues with `$*KERNEL` on Windows [190a7148][2=
f9d69c2]

The following people contributed to this release:

Nick Logan, Aleks-Daniel Jakimenko-Aleksejev

If you would like to contribute or find out more information, visit
<https://perl6.org>, <https://rakudo.org/how-to-help>, ask on the
<[email protected]> mailing list, or ask on IRC #perl6 on freenode.=


Additionally, we invite you to make a donation to The Perl Foundation
to sponsor Perl=C2=A06 development: <https://donate.perlfoundation.org/>
(put =E2=80=9CPerl=C2=A06 Core Development Fund=E2=80=9D in the =E2=80=98=
Purpose=E2=80=99 text field)

The next release of Rakudo (#131), is tentatively scheduled for 2019-04-2=
0.

A list of the other planned release dates is available in the
=E2=80=9Cdocs/release_guide.pod=E2=80=9D file.

The development team appreciates feedback! If you=E2=80=99re using Rakudo=
, do
get back to us. Questions, comments, suggestions for improvements, cool
discoveries, incredible hacks, or any other feedback =E2=80=93 get in tou=
ch with
us through (the above-mentioned) mailing list or IRC channel. Enjoy!

Please note that recent releases have known issues running on the JVM.
We are working to get the JVM backend working again but do not yet have
an estimated delivery date.

[^1]: See <http://moarvm.org/>

[^2]: What=E2=80=99s the difference between the Rakudo compiler and the R=
akudo
Star distribution?

The Rakudo compiler is a compiler for the Perl=C2=A06 language.
Not much more.

The Rakudo Star distribution is the Rakudo compiler plus a selection
of useful Perl=C2=A06 modules, a module installer, Perl=C2=A06 introducto=
ry
documentation, and other software that can be used with the Rakudo
compiler to enhance its utility.



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