On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.1
"Manu Aloha." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aim
+ed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.7.1 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download
instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html .  For those who wou
+ld
like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend
using Subversion on the source code repository to get the latest and
best Parrot code.

Parrot 0.7.1 News:
- Implementation
 + add -I and -L command line options
 + support for null strings in NCI calls
 + preliminary support for resumable exceptions
 + add '.hll_map' method for dynamic HLL type mapping
 + more parrot_debugger fixes
 + remove obsolete '.past' extension
- Languages
 + Rakudo (Perl 6)
   - now over 3300 passing spectests
   - precompiled modules
   - precompiled scripts  (--target=pir can now be executed standalone
+)
   - Support for @*INC and %*INC varialbes
   - additional builtin methods and subs
   - added 'fail' function, warnings on use of undefined values
   - m/.../ regexes
   - qq, qw, q quoting forms
   - run tests in parallel
   - gather/take
   - Perl6MultiSub
 + Cardinal (Ruby):
   - 'require' and precompiled modules
   - many new tests
   - all Array tests pass
   - regexes
   - default arguments to functions
   - new committer
- Compilers
 + PCT:
   - add :loadinit attribute for PAST::Block
 + PIRC:
   - major refactoring to allow all PIR keywords as identifiers
   - links to libparrot now, so all Parrot ops are recognized as such
   - implemented .loadlib, .HLL_map, .HLL
- Miscellaneous
 + add Xlib and Mysql modules and test programs to NCI examples
 + many updates and cleanups to PDD documents


Many thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our 
+sponsors
for supporting this project.  Our next scheduled release is 21 Oct 200
+8.

Enjoy!
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