File rakudo.changes of Package rakudo
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Sun Oct 2 12:45:42 UTC 2022 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Final fix for module packaging issues. This follows upstream in completely
reverting an offending change.
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Sun Oct 2 09:03:11 UTC 2022 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Backport yet another fix for module packaging issues (included in the same file)
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Sat Oct 1 15:59:56 UTC 2022 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Update backported fix to the real fix (see GitHub for explanation of this
weird sequence)
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Sat Oct 1 13:48:30 UTC 2022 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Backport fix for module packaging in rakudo-fix-module-installation.diff
Details in https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/issues/4907
To be removed for the next release
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Sat Oct 1 12:39:18 CEST 2022 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2022.07
+ Make previous values in REPL accessible with `$*N`
+ Add an `IO::Path.dir-with-entries` method, returning a `Bool`
+ Implement `will complain` trait
+ Allow optional : on LHS of signature binding declaration
+ Make &[max] and &[min] return RHS for ties
+ Make handles on attribute of type object more natural
+ Allow :from<Raku> in identities
+ Reconsider the way `$*PERL` is deprecated
+ Allow setting ThreadPoolScheduler's max_threads to semi-infinite value
+ Re-imagine DateTime.new(Str) / Str.DateTime
+ Make sort() a runtime error
+ Implement coercion via new-disp and re-consider return typechecking dispatcher
+ Make Iterable.hyper|race take Any as a default for :batch and :degree
+ Categorize exceptions thrown by role appliers
+ Add :real named argument to DateTime.posix
+ Introduce (Exception|Cool).Failure coercer
+ Implement fallback support for MRO
+ Add IO::Path inode, dev, and devtype methods
+ Add sub version of .head / .skip / .tail
+ Implement Haskell's "span" as "snip" in 6.e
+ Remove the $?COMPILATION-ID constant as it was not documented and not tested
+ Many bugfixes and performance improvements
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Sun Apr 3 11:11:38 CEST 2022 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2022.03
+ Expose the .file and .line methods on Label objects
+ Allow Date / DateTime *day* parameter to be a Callable / Whatever
+ Make error on Date.later(:hour|minute|second) more awesome
+ Give .chomp the possibility to specify a needle
+ Improve error message for invalid arguments passed to traits
+ Un =my= X::Comp::Group
+ Turn junctions into value objects
+ Fix classification and categorization over junctions and gist over Junction keys
+ Fix typo'd missing : in .nominal_type signature
+ Decrement # of calls in a block if any are optimized away
+ Fix IO::Path.parent
+ Fix multi-method candidates lost when 6.e role is applied
+ Workaround for cases where .ACCEPTS may return non-Raku object
+ Fix issue with native array.splice
+ Fix issue with Net::Curl
+ Make DateTime.new(Allomorph:D) work
+ Restore given / when optimization for Numeric cases
+ Fix/test Pod::To::Text rendering of =defn elements
+ Fix resources of the parent repo not found when using Staging
+ Optimize more cases of p6decontrv ops
+ Use new native unsigned integer NQP ops where applicable
+ Use --/++$i instead of $i = nqp::add/sub_i($i,1) for readability
+ Make Complex multiplication factor constant
+ Streamline Complex -> Real coercion
+ Simplify creating a Complex object
+ Enable num->str coercion in native.repeated/unique
+ Remove unneeded/confusing can('prec') checks
+ Remove some unnecessary trys
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Sun Mar 27 09:19:10 UTC 2022 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Fix build on RHEL7 which contains no fdupes package
Also perl core packages are not installed by default
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Mon Feb 21 16:35:47 CET 2022 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2022.02
+ Introduce a new generalized dispatch mechanism.
It results in a more uniform architecture for all kinds
of dispatch, delivering better performance on a range of
langauge features. For more information see
https://6guts.wordpress.com/2021/09/29/the-new-moarvm-dispatch-mechanism-is-here/
+ Native unsigned integers are now first class citizens
+ The $*PERL variable usage will warn starting from `6.e` language release,
using $*RAKU is preferred now
+ Remove RESTRICTED setting (#3965)
+ Add support for $RAKUDO_OPT environment variable
+ Introducing RAKUDO_PRECOMPILATION_PROGRESS environment variable
+ Quite a few smaller additions
+ Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements. Far too many to even summarize here.
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Sun Aug 22 11:17:56 CEST 2021 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2021.08
+ Enable rendering of nested blocks in the Pod::To::Text module
+ Raise priority of let and temp operators compared to .=, . and
auto-increment, making let $foo .= &{ Nil } work more intuitively compared to
(let $foo) .= &{ Nil } as was necessary before
+ Change the Scalar.WHICH method implementation, fixing the semantics to reflect
that Scalar is not a value object
+ Make the &&, || and // operators about 2x as fast for the +@a candidates
+ Improve performance of smartmatching between two Signature objects
+ Fix some occurrences of hash-related concurrency issues
+ Fix the List.reduce method when used with &infix:<&&>
+ Fix matching of native types against roles Numeric, Real and Stringy
+ Make Pointer.Numeric and Pointer.Int methods return 0 instead of resulting in an error
+ Fix a race in the ClassHOW.new_type method
+ Make checking for Windows cheaper
+ Simplify Rakudo::Iterator::While iterator code
+ Fix location of the Proc.status deprecation message
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Sat Jul 24 21:31:25 CEST 2021 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2021.07
+ Make cmp routine work properly on Iterator, Seq, Uni, native arrays and empty Lists
+ Add the ACCEPTS(Uni) method on Uni candidate
+ Implement last and next with a value for 6.e language revision
+ Properly support nearly all HTML5 entities in Pod E<> formatting code
+ Allow Ctrl-C to stop entry in REPL
+ Add ⩶ and ⩵ as Unicode synonyms for === and ==
+ Deprecate the status method on Proc in place of exitcode and signal methods
+ Allow add method on IO::Path to take multiple values (e.g. "foo".IO.add(<bar baz>))
+ Optimize calls to map
+ Optimize loops without phasers for one and two arguments case
+ Make for / map with 2+ arguments up to 2x as fast
+ Make List cmp List about 25% faster
+ Reduce overhead of loops with phasers by at least 5%
+ Make the grep(Callable) method about 3% faster
+ Clean up sockets created by IO::Socket::INET.new on error
+ Fix freezes caused by concurrently produced iterators
+ Fix unimatch for non-base properties
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Sat Jul 10 15:56:02 CEST 2021 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2021.06
+ Support generics with consumption and inheritance in roles
+ Introduce done foo syntax as a shortcut for emit foo; done
+ Implement pick method on Any taking HyperWhatever as an argument (.pick(**))
+ Add a repl sub to enter the REPL from within a program
+ Add Buf and Blob coercers to Blob and Buf roles
+ Tweak worker addition for many small tasks
+ Make .grep(Regex) and .first(Regex) about 40% faster
+ Speed up setup of NativeCall subs and reduce memory usage
+ Micro-optimize levenshtein sub used to suggest alternatives in error messages
+ Fix bogus "emit without supply or react" error when using hyper to process arrays
+ Fix some edge cases with (+), (.), (&) and (|) set operators
+ Make signature destructuring with a Junction an error
+ Make Mu eqv Mu work
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Mon May 24 15:57:56 CEST 2021 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2021.05
+ Make methods keys, values, kv, pairs, antipairs, invert work on Enum
+ Make uniname and uniparse method work on all Cool values such as Num or Match
+ Add the user and group methods to IO::Path
+ Add new methods day-fraction, modified-julian-date and julian-date to DateTime
+ Add support for ∊ and ∍ as aliases for ∈ and ∋
+ Deprecate Cool.path method in favor of Cool.IO and NQP operators time_i and time_n in favor of time
+ Rename deterministic method on Iterator introduced in 2020.12 into is-deterministic
+ Calling ord method on Str:U now throws an exception instead of silently returning Nil
+ Make Int.chr and Int.unival handling of negative values consistent
+ Faster now, Str.wordcase, Str.uniparse, lines, words, my %h is QuantHash =, Int.unival,
Str.unival, Str.ords, List.sum, Any.sum, chrs for native int arrays, uninames, Str.univals,
Datish.daycount, uniprop, uniprops, Baggy.AT-KEY, infix (elem), DateTime.posix
+ Fix a regression in command line arguments parser
+ Fix compilation failure with EVAL in precompiled module's mainline
+ Fix an edge case of sub-signature handling, making say :([]) eqv :(@); properly result in False
+ Make signal handler setup synchronous to avoid race conditions
+ Fix race condition in ThreadPoolScheduler
+ Fix a potential issue on subclassing from NQP classes or consuming NQP roles
+ Fix Int.uniname to handle big negative and big positive integers
+ Fix handling of holes in raku method for native str arrays
+ Fix resource leak when iterating files using dir method on IO::Path
+ Fix an exception when grab was called on an empty SetHash that had contained entries before
+ Fix DateTime equivalence check with eqv relying on raku representation
+ Fix methods substr, substr-rw, chop, chomp, pred, succ, comb, lines, words, wordcase, trans,
indent, uc, lc, tc, fc, tclc, flip, split, trim, trim-leading, trim-trailing, samemark,
samespace, samecase, subst, subst-mutate when called on a Str subclass
+ Make Allomorph methods comb, chop, chomp, lc, uc, tc, tclc, fc, flip, substr, substr-rw return Str
+ Make sure trim, trim-leading, trim-trailing, split, samecase, samemark, samespace methods handle Allomorph values
+ Fix copying of empty shaped array
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Sun Mar 21 21:49:09 CET 2021 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2021.03
+ Implement space-delimited command line interface arguments
+ Add a predicated wait for Lock::ConditionVariable
+ The Pod::To::Text module's output supports rendering of multi-level lists now
+ Remove utf32 from encodings lists for MoarVM, it was never supported before
+ Make printf directive error more descriptive
+ Make sorting and related infix operators about 2x as fast
+ Optimize coercive parameter typechecking
+ Make >>. construct faster
+ Make BagHash.add a few percent faster
+ Make xx on a constant value about 5% faster
+ Fix single item assignment at List creation (my @l is List = 'foo' now produces a correct result)
+ Kernel.signals no longer returns unwanted extraneous data
+ Fixed .of method on type objects
+ Set up proper precedence info for a number of infix operators
+ Fix hypering on Map and when using next
+ Fix containerization on hypering
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Thu Feb 25 08:55:13 CET 2021 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2021.02.1
+ Fix a regression of the 2021.02 release where a lazy iterable usage could suddenly
lead to a hang
+ Fix calling list and iterator methods on Map and Array type objects
+ Fix a minor memory leak in Rakudo runner
- Remove fix-flapping-tests.diff fixed upstream
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Sun Feb 21 16:27:19 CET 2021 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2021.02
+ Introduce new coertion semantics.
+ Add new method deterministic to Iterator role
+ Introduce %*SUB-MAIN-OPTS<coerce-allomorphs-to> setting
+ Implement MAIN parameter bundling via the %*SUB-MAIN-OPTS<bundling> option
+ Add a new candidate to spurt routine and method.
+ Add :emit-on-empty, :emit-timed and :emit-once-on-empty methods to Supply.batch method
+ Make is DEPRECATED trait introspectable on Routine instances
+ Implement the prefix:<||> operator in postcircumfixes for 6.e and later
+ Add a flag to symlink allowing creation of relative symlinks
+ Implement binding of array- and hash-slices
+ Give raku -v a pure ASCII version
+ Introduce is test-assertion trait for routines
+ Make Whatever slice work on 1-dim native shaped arrays
+ Handle :exists and :delete on 1-dim native shaped arrays with int index
+ Introducing the Allomorph class
+ Add cmp candidates for Code
+ Add parameterizer methods for Metamodel::Primitives
+ Set equality operators: (==) Unicode ≡ and ≢
+ Add support for Supply.tail(*), Supply.tail(*-3) and .tail(Inf)
+ Make Supply.head(*-3) consistent with List.head(*-3)
+ Add IO::Path::Parts class
+ Add support for printf($format, Junction)
+ Add IO::Handle.do-not-close-automatically, Supply.rotate and Capture.EXISTS-POS methods
+ Add RAKU_REPL_OUTPUT_METHOD environment variable
+ Add :chomp named argument to Str.lines similar to the same named argument of IO::Handle.new
+ Lots and lots of bug fixes and speedups
- Backport fix-flapping-tests.diff
- Get output of failing tests via rakudo-test-log.diff
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Fri Oct 23 11:30:12 UTC 2020 - Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
- Enable tests on armv6
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Wed May 13 12:59:55 CEST 2020 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2020.05.1
+ Implement support of environment variables RAKULIB, RAKUDOLIB, RAKU_TEST_DIE_ON_FAIL
and RAKU_TEST_TIMES to eventually replace deprecated PERL6LIB, PERL6_TEST_DIE_ON_FAIL
and PERL6_TEST_TIMES
+ Add multiple needles feature to Str.index/rindex
+ dd can now also handle BOOTContext objects
+ Str now has .Date and DateTime coercers
+ Date.yyyy-mm-dd now takes a separator parameter, defaulting to -
+ Added Date.dd-mm-yyyy and Date.mm-dd-yyyy methods
+ IterationBuffer now has a .Slip method for easier iteration
+ Add "is implementation-detail" trait and hide exposed internals with it
+ Introduce ^... and ^...^ sequence generator operators
+ Add Date.last-date-in-month and Date.first-day-in-month methods
+ Add a parents metamethod to Metamodel::ParametricRoleGroupHOW
+ Implement VM.request-garbage-collection
+ Remove undocumented Seq.new-consumed
+ Improve behavior of default ThreadPoolScheduler, increasing efficiency of multithreaded
applications
+ Speed up compilation of large projects
+ Lots of bug fixes and speedups
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Mon Mar 9 08:34:11 UTC 2020 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Fix /usr/bin/raku missing due to quoting error in call to ln
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Wed Mar 4 09:56:19 UTC 2020 - Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Update description and summary to follow the rename of Perl 6 to Raku
- Fix shebang lines in installed scripts
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Tue Mar 3 14:15:18 CET 2020 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2020.02
+ Remove deprecated support for implicit Distribution::Builder prefix
+ throws-like sub from Test module now throws an exception on Bool:D matchers
+ Supply.repeated now has unique rather than squish semantics
+ Enable user-defined chaining operators to work
+ Added prefix and suffix methods to Parameter class which return
textual prefix and suffix of the parameter
+ Made an improperly typed default for an attribute a compile time error
+ New methods: SetHash.set, SetHash.unset, BagHash.add and BagHash.remove, IterationBuffer.Seq,
Compiler.backend, Match.replace-with
+ Str.contains now also can take a Regex
+ Add :i(ignorecase) and :m(ignoremark) support to
index, starts-with, ends-with, contains, substr-eq, indices
+ Cool.subst doesn't need a replacement string anymore
+ Supply.first now also works without a matcher
+ Properly show enums, subsets and routine return type in Pod::To::Text output
+ Added iterator implementation for Junction (fixes e.g. calling ^name on a Junction)
+ Fixed concurrency issue with re-checking a precomp file's dependencies
+ Lock.protect now allows return of a container
+ Work around spurious error in Lock::Async that could lead to crashing
+ Fixed handle leak when chaining Proc::Async
+ Lots of bug fixes and speedups
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Tue Jan 28 10:43:42 CET 2020 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2020.01
+ A big overhaul of role applying rules and behavior or submethods, constructors
and destructors. Class attributes and methods are now prioritized over those from roles
+ Smartmatching typed Arrays against same-typed Positionals now returns True
+ DateTime class now accepts picosecond precision
+ Make default degree for hyper/batch utilize number of CPU cores better
+ $*ARGFILES special variable now defaults to $*IN if no arguments
+ An attempt to use methods index, indiced, contains on a List now gives a warning
+ Fix leaking file handles when loading modules
+ Fix missing dependency information when precompiling large dependency trees
+ Fixed relocatability of bundled native libraries
+ Fix "expected IO::Handle:D but got IO::Handle" in parallel test runs
+ Fix hang when initializing Int with a type object
+ Lots of semantics bug fixes
+ Add Version type coercer to Str
+ Add Supply.repeated, Supply.decode($encoding), Supply.first, Supply.collate,
Supply.encode($encoding = "utf8"), Supply.comb, Supply.split, Supply.lines(:nl-in<foo>)
methods
+ Add new is built attribute trait
+ Allow Supply.head(*-3) to be synonym of Supply.tail(3)
+ RAKUDO_POD_DECL_BLOCK_USER_FORMAT env var for retaining formatting of Pod6 leading
declarator blocks
+ Add aliases: $*RAKU variable, Raku language in EVAL, RAKU_EXCEPTIONS_HANDLER env variable
+ Add :$match named parameter to comb subroutine when called
on Cool object when the $matcher argument is a Regex
+ Add log2 subroutine and method
+ Allowed colon syntax on $.foo method, making $.foo: 42 work
- Remove no longer needed rakudo-buildroot-fix.diff - fixed upstream
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Sun Dec 01 15:35:00 CET 2019 - nine@detonation.org
- Backport fix for buildroot in packaged files in rakudo-buildroot-fix.diff
(remove in next release)
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Fri Nov 29 09:43:56 CET 2019 - nine@detonation.org
- Remove rakudo-fix-rpath.diff (issue has been fixed upstream)
- update to version 2019.11
* Perl 6 is now Raku! This release comes with initial changes
Added raku and rakudo executables
Added support for .rakumod extension
* Added support for Unicode v12.1
* Added GB2312 and GB18030 encodings
* [6.e] LEXICAL:: pseudo-package includes all symbols visible in
the lexical scope, including dynamic symbols from caller chain
* [6.e] SETTING:: pseudo-package includes all symbols from all available COREs
* [6.e] UNIT:: pseudo-package includes all lexicals visible at unit level
* [6.e] Symbol binding is now possible for all pseudo-packages
* [6.e] Pseudo-packages now return Failure for a missing symbol (was Nil)
* [6.e] Grammar now returns Failure when failing to parse
* EVAL no longer wraps evaluated code into own CORE context but shares the one
used by the calling scope. It also means that `use v6.X` statement is not
effective inside EVALs anymore
* Individual language-release COREs are now accessible via CORE::v6<rev> namespaces.
* Stagestats are now shown for dependent precompilation
* Greatly improved precompilation support in NativeCall
* Don't recompile dependencies if another process already did it
* Made the Buf.write-* methods return self
* Fixed Maps to keep containers
* Lots of bug fixes and speedups
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Thu Jul 22 18:20:00 CEST 2019 - nine@detonation.org
- Fix install-perl6-dist getting installed into the wrong directory
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Thu Jul 18 10:52:24 CEST 2019 - nine@detonation.org
- Remove fix-buildroot-in-precomp-files.diff (issue has been fixed upstream)
- Add rakudo-fix-rpath.diff (remove in next release)
- update to version 2019.07
* --profile-kind option to replace the deprectaed --profile-filename
* Made a Failure throw when it is used as something Iterable
* Fixed a lot of reproducibility issues in Rakudo and precompiled modules
* Made some methods return Bools instead of 0 or 1
* Lots of bug fixes and speedups
* Added an X::Cannot::Map exception
* Telemetry's snap now also accepts an optional "checkpoint" message
* Telemetry: allow snap :heap for heap snapshots
* CompUnit::Repository::FileSystem objects can now also be created from an IO::Path
* Added support for use v6.e.PREVIEW
* EVAL now supports a :check flag to just check syntax (like perl6 -c)
* Implemented support for Kernel.free-memory and Kernel.total-memory
* Added the CachedIterator role for creating iterators on cached lists
* By default a parametric role group would now choose non-signatured
candidate for introspection; if there is no such candidate then
the first one would be chosen
* Added --confprog, a way to configure the behavior of some
moarvm-internal systems like the profiler
* Removed :where support for Signature/Parameter.perl
* Removed several internal functions from CORE:: and SETTING:: namespaces
* Removed wrappers for no longer existing internal function from RESTRICTED setting
* Removed Compiler::build-date
* Removed the timestamp in Distro's desc
* Removed unused %opts argument from Perl6::World::load_module_early
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Sat Apr 13 13:27:00 CEST 2019 - nine@detonation.org
- Add fix-buildroot-in-precomp-files.diff
Fixes environment variables (including ones pointing at the buildroot)
ending up in precompiled files. The patch is a workaround for a known
issue deep in the rakudo compiler.
Tue Mar 19 09:40:02 CET 2019 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2019.03.1
* Added a candidates method to CompUnit::Repository::FileSystem
and CompUnit::Repository::Installation
* Added buf8/blob8 read-(u)bits / write-(u)bits methods for
reading/writing any number of **bits**
* Added $?DISTRIBUTION to give introspection and IO capabilities
to the current Distribution
* Added addendum to X::Method::NotFound for better error messages
* Added HLL interface for creating Signature and Parameter
* Made `does X::Control` imply throwing to CONTROL
* Made QuantHashes parameterizable to limit the type of value that
can be put in them
* Allowed `is Type` trait to handle parameterization like
`is Set[Int]`
* Added a dynamic-scope lexical pragma
* Removed ComptUnit::Repository::Installation and Distribution
compatibility shims for old versions of panda and zef
* Renamed Block/WhateverCode.pos to .POSITIONS
* Lots of bug fixes and speedups
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Fri Dec 28 21:30:27 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2018.12
* Default language version is now v6.d
* Deprecated .path/.args in Proc::Async, use .command instead
* Implemented X::Language::TooLate
* $*COLLATION.set is no longer experimental
* Added dynamic variable $*FOLDING
* Added Endian enum and implemented new methods in blob8/buf8
for reading/writing native values
* Added Kernel.endian
* Implemented Blob.readint / Buf.writeint
* Added .native-descriptor for async sockets
* Added .Real method to native arrays
* Implemented last and LAST in whenever blocks
* Lots of bug fixes and speedups
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Thu Nov 29 17:06:44 UTC 2018 - Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
- Disable check on armv6 as it randomly fails
- Add _constraints to avoid test failures (on armv7)
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Mon Nov 12 17:30:02 UTC 2018 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
- Replace old $RPM_* shell vars
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Sun Nov 11 22:03:49 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2018.10
* Randomized hash iteration order to prevent DDoS attacks
* Deprecated `gethostname()` in favor of `$*KERNEL.hostname`
* Initial support for Unicode 11.0
* Removed --encoding support
* Fixes for reproducibility of builds
* Added shapes support for HAS scoped attributes
* Added NativeCall CArray.allocate method
* Added "use isms <Perl5>" pragma to stop complaints about Perl 5 traps
* Massive speedups of private and qualified method calls
* Various performance improvements
* Various bug fixes
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Tue May 1 09:17:03 CEST 2018 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2018.04.1
* Various performance improvements
* Various bug fixes
* Added support for "api" adverb when loading modules
* Added ShiftJIS decode/encode support
* Added a way to get child process ID via Proc::Async
* Added Proc.pid
* Added Array.grab
* Added fails-like routine in Test.pm6
* Added support for "const" marked return values in C++ functions
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Tue Mar 20 09:37:19 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2018.03
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Thu Feb 1 07:53:44 CET 2018 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2018.01
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Mon Aug 21 23:08:20 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2017.08
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Sat Jul 29 10:30:18 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2017.07
- Remove no longer needed rakudo-remove-compile-time-env.diff as it has
been comitted upstream.
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Fri Jun 2 09:06:09 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2017.05
- Backport removal of untested and unspecced feature from rakudo in
rakudo-remove-compile-time-env.diff to fix BUILDROOT path being included
in the compiled file. Fix was committed right after the release.
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Tue Apr 18 22:40:03 CEST 2017 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2017.04.2
Contains necessary fixes for packaging Perl 6 modules
- Removed workaround for packaging issue from spec file
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Sun Mar 19 14:00:50 CET 2017 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2017.03
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Tue Dec 20 18:22:40 CET 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- remove no longer needed patching from the spec file
- update to version 2016.12
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Thu Nov 24 16:39:10 CET 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2016.11
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Sun Oct 16 13:42:23 CEST 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2016.10
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Fri Oct 7 14:04:17 CEST 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2016.09
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Sun Jul 24 10:09:24 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- update to 2016.07
* Huge number of performance improvements
* Numerous bug fixes
* Buf: unshift, prepend, pop, shift and splice (similar to List.*)
* Blob|Buf.allocate($elems, @init-pattern) and .reallocate($elems)
* DateTime.new(y,mo,d,h,mi,s) fully positional candidate
* Can now uninstall distributions
* Date/DateTime now fully subclassable
* REPL now supports multi-line statements
* Native str arrays (my str @a)
* &*EXIT can be set to handle exit() statements (for embedding Perl 6)
* Add :kv to .first
* Add provisional $*DEFAULT-READ-ELEMS
* Ability to use a customer debugger module
* $*MAIN-ALLOW-NAMED-ANYWHERE allows MAIN to be friendlier about where it accepts flags
* Add richer set of comparison operators for Versions
* Many improvements to precompilation
* Introduce .Map coercer
* Implement alternate ways to call subtest
* The "is-approx" sub from Test now allows for relative/absolute tolerance
* The "cmp-ok" sub from Test now can take any infix as Str, even custom ones
* A fail in a custom BUILD will now be returned, rather than thrown
* use MONKEY-WRENCH and use MONKEY-BARS are now reserved names for future use
* The "is required" trait on Attributes can now take a Bool or a Str
* Support for new leap-second at 31-12-2016 added
* IO::[Path,Handle] gained a .mode method which returns the POSIX file permissions
* Fixed LTA error message with Str.samemark when no pattern present
* Distribution is now a role interface
* Custom repository implementations now supported, including precompilation
* List.BIND-POS now fails instead of throwing
* Failures in Cool.Numeric and related coercers now get propagated
* Improved warning message for literals with leading zeros
* Improved error message for attempts to `use` core types
* Improved error message when IO::Path.new is given incorrect arguments
* Improved error message when .polymod is given a zero as divisor
- Package now contains precompiled versions of shipped libraries
- removed patch: fb00ed3.diff
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Tue Feb 2 09:40:00 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- Add build system patch missing from rakudo release
new patch: fb00ed3.diff
- Replace ad-hoc patching using sed by proper patch in package
build
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Tue Feb 2 09:40:00 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- update to 2016.01
* Chained .grep calls on Supply fixed (RT #127297)
* Fixed interaction with perl6-debug and precompilation that
resulted in an endless loop
* re-enabled warning when smart-matching against a True or False
literal
* Fixed internal error when reporting certain type errors
(RT #127207)
* Fixed rare "duplicate definition of symbol" errors
(RT #127107)
* Fixed interpolating of pairs with non-key strings into
signatures
* Fixed error when smart-matching Seq against a Set
(RT #127166)
* Improved error message when smart-matching against an
S///-expression
* Fixed bad interaction between EXPORTHOW and multiple
declarations (RT #126566)
* Fixed various issues regarding precompilation
* Improved accuracy of Complex.sqrt
* hyper now preserves order of results, as designed
* Range.sum on an empty, numeric Range is now 0
* Fixed Promise.allof() with an empty list of promises
(RT #127101)
* Improved message on premature virtual method call
(RT #127097)
* Better error message for module load failures of types that
are part of the setting
* Support for Readline in addition to Linenoise
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Mon Jan 4 14:49:13 UTC 2016 - nine@detonation.org
- update to 2015.12.1 (коледа)
* first release to support the stable Perl 6.c.
* lots of Unicode fixes
* re-designed list handling (Great List Refactor)
* re-designed module management and precompilation
* support for multi dimensional arrays
* support for C++ in NativeCall
* hundreds of fixes and optimizations
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Thu Jun 11 17:31:41 CEST 2015 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2015.05 (Dresden)
* profiler support with moarvm
* much improved startup time
* the NativeCall module is now bundled
* "0" (0 as a string) is now True
* native arrays
* 'bit' and 'byte' native types
* NFG, NFC, NFD, Uni
* various API changes for the Great List Refactor
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Fri Aug 22 14:23:16 CEST 2014 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2014.08
* Many optimizations in both rakudo and the underlying VMs.
* remove speed penalty of large ranges in character classes
* quote words syntax \<a b c\> splits on breakable space only
* Add HyperWhatever / **
* Cool.eval and eval() are now removed
* .hash now turns an itemized hash into a hash
* subbuf-rw specced and implemented
* the tr/// operator is implemented and has the proper return value
* re-arranged infixish actions to support [[*]]= etc
* initial implementation of S11 (Compilation Units)
* implemented labeled loops and throwing of labels as payload
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Mon Mar 3 19:27:34 CET 2014 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2014.02
* switch from parrot to MoarVM
* the 'eval' sub and method are now spelled 'EVAL'
* the core of Rakudo::Debugger is now part of Rakudo
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Sun Jul 14 21:02:43 UTC 2013 - daxim@cpan.org
- update to 2013.06
* JVM backend added - passes initial sanity tests
* type captures in signature binder implemented
* dir() is now lazy
* &first now returns Nil instead of failing
* Cool.path implemented
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Mon Jun 3 13:48:44 UTC 2013 - daxim@cpan.org
- update to 2013.05
* speedup of repeated shifts of large lists and arrays
* regex special characters can be used as delimiters
* allow slice with :exists adverb on hashes
* fix regex interpolation slowdown
* fix exporting of subroutines
* underlying nqp layer supports parrot and JVM as backend
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Wed Jan 16 17:40:34 CET 2013 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2012.12
* parse errors are much improved
* the junction autothreader is now an order of magnitude faster
* texas versions of the Set and Bag operators implemented
* precedence related traits (equiv, looser, tighter, assoc)
* FIRST/NEXT/LAST can now be used in all types of loop
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Tue Aug 7 11:53:16 CEST 2012 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2012.07
* Built-in meta-objects (e.g. Metamodel::ClassHOW) now inherit from Any
* &open now supports :enc/:encoding
* Changed &dir to return IO::Path objects, not strings
* Deprecated .bytes, .ucfirst, and .lcfirst on Str
* recognize obsolete rand() and rand(N) forms at compile time
* anonymous subset types 'subset :: of Int where { $_ > 0 }'
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Thu Jun 28 14:18:42 CEST 2012 - mls@suse.de
- fix install section so that the installed perl6 binary
finds its libraries
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Fri Jun 22 18:18:56 CEST 2012 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2012.06
* Longest-Token Matching for | alternations in regexes
* Stricter numification of strings (fails if the string does not
represent a number)
* 'require' now allows argument lists
* Faster .map / list handling
* Improvements to typed exceptions
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Fri Jun 8 13:42:00 CEST 2012 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2012.05
* -I and -M command-line options
* support for non-Int enums
* 'use' now accepts positional arguments and is able to import by tag name
* 'import' now works
* basic support for Version literals
* %*ENV now propagates into subprocesses
* basic implementation of pack and unpack ported from 'ng' branch
* fff flip-flop operator is now implemented, ff has been improved
* various new regex features and improvements
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Sat Mar 24 06:40:00 CES 2012 - carlin@glass.org.nz
- update to 2012.03
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Fri Oct 21 19:36:05 CEST 2011 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2011.10 version
* switch to "new object model" branch
* much faster, both in startup and execution
* native types on various operators
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Thu Jul 21 20:54:19 CEST 2011 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2011.07 version
* fix bug in exponentation of negative numbers
* fix build on systems with little RAM
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Mon Jun 27 12:13:36 CEST 2011 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2011.06 version
* improved parrot register handling for more efficient code
* gcd and lcm operators
* -n and -p command line options
* basic IPv6 support
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Thu Jan 20 17:47:49 CET 2011 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2011.01 version
* faster subroutine calls (type cache)
* implemented 'handles Rolename' trait
* 'use Devel::Trace' debugging pragma
* improved parsing of keyword boundaries
* faster .comb
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Fri Nov 19 12:50:13 CET 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.11 version
* qw// is now implemented
* .trans is now 5 times faster
* indexing is now possible with both ranges and Whatever
offsets together: @a[0 .. *-2]
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Fri Oct 22 16:10:11 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.10 version
* we now have a simple version of require
* the local timezone is available in $*TZ
* Str.flip is now 100 times faster than it used to be
* Hyperoperators can now be applied to infix:<+=> and friends
* improved diagnostic messages
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Mon Sep 27 15:23:07 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.09 version
* the specification for temporal objects is now completely implemented
* several performance improvements were implemented
* the series operator has been refactored
* enumeration objects now conform much closer to the current spec
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Fri Aug 27 15:09:37 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.08 version
* Due to a specification change, Nil is now undefined, and no longer
simply an empty Parcel.
* Many modifiers are now recognized on the outside of regexes and
substitutions, for example s:g:samecase/abc/defg/
* Improvements to the performance of integer operations
* Initial implementations of .pack and .unpack methods for the Buf class
* Smartmatching against True or False is now an error. Most people who did
this really wanted to look at the return value of .so instead.
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Fri Jul 23 12:20:25 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.07 version
* rakudo now properly constructs closures in most instances
* arrays can now handle infinite ranges
* generic, multi-level Whatever-currying now works
* simple binding operators := and ::= now work
* simple feed operators <== and ==> now work
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Fri Jun 18 12:35:30 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.06 version
* rakudo now uses immutable iterators internally
* many more things are now evaluated lazily
* backtraces no longer report routines from Parrot internals
* match objects now act like real hashes and arrays
* regexes can now interpolate variables
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Thu May 20 17:55:29 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.05 version
* lexical classes and roles were implemented
* basic support for named enumerations has been restored
* Numeric / Real roles much closer to the spec now
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Thu Apr 22 15:35:51 CEST 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.04 version
* fixed string interpolation
* fixed assignment precedence issue
* added DateTime type
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Fri Mar 19 11:59:56 CET 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.03 version
* Numerous updates to trigonometric functions and the Rat class
* Basic s/// and s[...] = '...' implemented
* use improved and need/import implemented, with some basic support
for versioned modules and lexical importation
* Grammars work again and now include support for regexes taking
parameters and proto-regexes
* Series operator now has basic support for the current Spec.
* User defined operators working again
* Support, though with caveats, for !, R, X and Z meta-operators
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Fri Feb 19 12:24:44 CET 2010 - mls@suse.de
- update to 2010.02 version
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Fri Oct 23 15:44:35 CEST 2009 - mls@suse.de
- update to October version
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Mon Sep 21 18:05:24 CEST 2009 - mls@suse.de
- update to September version
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Thu Aug 27 18:51:56 CEST 2009 - mls@suse.de
- update to August version
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Fri Jun 26 14:25:01 CEST 2009 - mls@suse.de
- update to June version
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Thu Apr 23 16:22:37 CEST 2009 - mls@suse.de
- update to April version
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Tue Apr 7 18:58:45 CEST 2009 - mls@suse.de
- initial revision
