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On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to
announce the August 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable
distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the August 2010 release is
available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.

Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that
it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and
there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification
that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form

On behalf of the Rakudo and Perl 6 development teams, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 release of "Rakudo Star", a useful and usable distribution of Perl 6. The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/star/downloads.

Rakudo Star is aimed at "early adopters" of Perl 6. We know that it still has some bugs, it is far slower than it ought to be, and there are some advanced pieces of the Perl 6 language specification that aren't implemented yet. But Rakudo Perl 6 in its current form is also proving to be viable (and fun) for developing applications and exploring a great new language. These "Star" releases are intended to make Perl 6 more widely available to programmers, grow the Perl 6 codebase, and gain additional end-user feedback about the Perl 6 language and Rakudo's implementation of it.

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm happy to announce the July 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #31 "Atlanta". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the July 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads.

Please note: This is not the Rakudo Star release, which is scheduled for July 29, 2010 [1]. The Star release will include the compiler, an installer, modules, a book (PDF), and more.

As many of you know, last summer we announced that we would be releasing a "usable release of Rakudo Perl 6" to be called "Rakudo Star" in the second quarter of 2010. We later refined our target release date to be April 2010.

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the June 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #30 "Kiev". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the June 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads.

Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named after a Perl Mongers group. This release is named after the Perl Mongers from the beautiful Ukrainian capital, Kiev. They recently helped organize and participated in the Perl Mova + YAPC::Russia conference, the хакмит (hackathon) of which was a particular success for Rakudo. All those who joined the Rakudo hacking - from Kiev and further afield - contributed spec tests as well as patches to Rakudo, allowing various RT tickets to be closed, and making this month's release better. Дякую!

We want a Perl 6 book. We want it badly enough to write it ourselves. So that's
what we're doing: writing one.

Changes/additions to the Perl 6 book since the previous release:

• Operators
  • comparison operators, smart matching
• Subroutines and Signatures
  • type constraints
  • captures
  • introspection
• Grammar chapter
  • fixed to work with newest Rakudo
  • use and explain proto tokens.

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the May 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #29 "Erlangen".

Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the May 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .

Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named after a Perl Mongers group. The May 2010 release is code named "Erlangen" in recognition of Erlangen.pm and the Perl 6 talk that Moritz Lenz, one of our core developers, gave this month.

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the April 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #28 "Moscow".

Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the April 2010 release
is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .

Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release named after a Perl Mongers group. The April 2010 release is code named "Moscow" in recognition of Москва.пм and their invitation of Jonathan Worthington, one of our core develepors, to speak at the Russian Internet Technologies 2010 [1] conference.

This is not the "Rakudo Star" release announced for Q2 2010 -- we expect that to be shipped in June.

Note: I neglected to cross-post this journal post to rakudo.org when I wrote it a couple of weeks ago; apologies.

The last week has brought some sad news. While software is of course insignificant compared to life and health, and it's absolutely right that at this time Rakudo should be the last thing Pm should be worrying about, I know a lot of people will be wondering what this means for the Rakudo * release. Myself and the other Rakudo developers are still working out the exact details, but here's an overview.

We want a Perl 6 book. We want it badly enough to write it ourselves. So that's
what we're doing: writing one.

Changes/additions to the Perl 6 book since the previous release:

• Operators
  • created this chapter
• Subroutines and Signatures
  • created this chapter
• Regex chapter
  • Editorial review

You can download the preliminary PDF version of the book at
http://cloud.github.com/downloads/perl6/book/book-2010-04.pdf

Interested? Check out the git repository at http://github.com/perl6/book,
and join us in irc://freenode.net#perl6book.