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On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #27 "Copenhagen".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the March 2010 release
is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
March 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #27 "Copenhagen".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the March 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 March 2010 release is code named
"Copenhagen" for Copenhagen.pm, hosts of the Perl 6 Copenhagen

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
February 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #26 "Amsterdam".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the February 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 February 2010 release is code named
"Amsterdam" for the largest chapter of the Dutch Perl Mongers. Perl
development enjoys considerable support from the Netherlands, with
donations from NLNet, and hosting of the feather machines and several
important Perl 6 web domains and sites.

[This notice is going out a bit late; the release was indeed
produced on time, but I was delayed in sending out this notice.
With apologies for the delay... --Pm]

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the January 2010 development release of Rakudo Perl #25 "Minneapolis". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the January 2010 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads .

Rakudo Perl follows a monthly release cycle, with each release

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:

• Builtins chapter
  • created this chapter
  • added description of the Complex type
• Roles chapter
  • created this chapter

There have also been some changes to the support scripts and support
documents for producing the book. These include:

• new HTML make target
• updated the release guide

You can download the preliminary PDF version of the book at

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
December 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #24 "Seoul".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the December 2009 release
is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads

Due to the continued rapid pace of Rakudo development and the frequent
addition of new Perl 6 features and bugfixes, we recommend building Rakudo
from the latest source, available from the main repository at github.

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

You can download the preliminary PDF version of the book at
http://cloud.github.com/downloads/perl6/book/book-2009-11.pdf

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the November 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #23 "Lisbon". Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine (see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the November 2009 release is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads

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

We, that is Patrick Michaud (architect of the Rakudo Perl compiler), Jonathan Worthington (prolific contributor to both Rakudo and Parrot), Carl Mäsak (frenetic Rakudo user, and our number one bug finder) and Moritz Lenz (keeper of the Perl 6 test suite, and Perl 6 user and blogger). We are also open to contribution from others - already Jonathan Scott Duff has written an initial preface for us.

Announce: Rakudo Perl 6 development release #22 ("Thousand Oaks")

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I'm pleased to announce the
October 2009 development release of Rakudo Perl #22 "Thousand Oaks".
Rakudo is an implementation of Perl 6 on the Parrot Virtual Machine
(see http://www.parrot.org). The tarball for the October 2009 release
is available from http://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/downloads