Rakudo compiler, Release #175 (2024.08)

2024-08-29

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce the August 2024 release of Rakudo #175. Rakudo is an implementation of the Raku1 language.

The source tarball for this release is available from https://rakudo.org/files/rakudo. Pre-compiled archives will be available shortly.

New in 2024.08:

• Improvements:

  • Ensure path-spec is a Str (in CompUnit::) [c1742f04]

• Additions:

  • Implement @a[**] with hammering flattening behavior [0bdd27db]

• Fixes:

  • Ensure that sunk failed lookups in native arrays always explode [a8745fe8]
  • Fix iterating over Junction with non-simple loop bodies [fde5d87f]
  • Prevent dispatch errors on Regex.Bool [29a03213]

• Deprecations:

• Internal:

  • Fix precomp build [a445da42]
  • Support will complain on X::Syntax::Number::LiteralType [43d2b0fb]

• RakuAST Development:

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The following people contributed to this release:

Stefan Seifert, Will Coleda, Elizabeth Mattijsen, Jonathan Worthington, Justin DeVuyst, Daniel Green, Richard Hainsworth, Timo Paulssen, Patrick Böker, finanalyst, Nick Logan, rir

This release implements 6.c and 6.d versions of the Raku specification. 6.c version of the language is available if you use the use v6.c version pragma, otherwise 6.d is the default.

Upcoming releases in 2024 will include new functionality that is not part of 6.c or 6.d specifications, available with a lexically scoped pragma. Our goal is to ensure that anything that is tested as part of 6.c and 6.d specifications will continue to work unchanged. There may be incremental spec releases this year as well.

If you would like to contribute or get more information, visit https://raku.org, https://rakudo.org/community, ask on the [email protected] mailing list, or ask on IRC #raku on Libera.

Additionally, we invite you to make a donation to The Perl & Raku Foundation to sponsor Raku development: https://donate.perlfoundation.org/ (put “Raku Core Development Fund” in the ‘Purpose’ text field)

The next release of Rakudo (#176), is tentatively scheduled for 2024-09-26.

A list of the other planned release dates is available in the “docs/release_guide.pod” file.

The development team appreciates feedback! If you’re using Rakudo, do get back to us. Questions, comments, suggestions for improvements, cool discoveries, incredible hacks, or any other feedback – get in touch 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.