Version: 2022.07-bp155.2.28
* Sun Oct 02 2022 Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Final fix for module packaging issues. This follows upstream in completely
reverting an offending change.
* Sun Oct 02 2022 Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Backport yet another fix for module packaging issues (included in the same file)
* Sat Oct 01 2022 Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Update backported fix to the real fix (see GitHub for explanation of this
weird sequence)
* Sat Oct 01 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
* Sat Oct 01 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 $?COMPILATION-ID constant as it was not documented and not tested
+ Many bugfixes and performance improvements
* Sun Apr 03 2022 nine@detonation.org
- update to version 2022.03
+ Expose the .file and .line methods on Label objects
+ Allow Date / DateTime *day* parameter to be a Callable / Whatever
+ Make error on Date.later(:hour|minute|second) more awesome
+ Give .chomp the possibility to specify a needle
+ Improve error message for invalid arguments passed to traits
+ Un =my= X::Comp::Group
+ Turn junctions into value objects
+ Fix classification and categorization over junctions and gist over Junction keys
+ Fix typo'd missing : in .nominal_type signature
+ Decrement # of calls in a block if any are optimized away
+ Fix IO::Path.parent
+ Fix multi-method candidates lost when 6.e role is applied
+ Workaround for cases where .ACCEPTS may return non-Raku object
+ Fix issue with native array.splice
+ Fix issue with Net::Curl
+ Make DateTime.new(Allomorph:D) work
+ Restore given / when optimization for Numeric cases
+ Fix/test Pod::To::Text rendering of =defn elements
+ Fix resources of the parent repo not found when using Staging
+ Optimize more cases of p6decontrv ops
+ Use new native unsigned integer NQP ops where applicable
+ Use --/++$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
* Sun Mar 27 2022 Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Fix build on RHEL7 which contains no fdupes package
Also perl core packages are not installed by default
* Mon Feb 21 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.
* Sun Aug 22 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
* Sat Jul 24 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
* Sat Jul 10 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
* Mon May 24 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
* Sun Mar 21 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
* Thu Feb 25 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
* Sun Feb 21 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
* Fri Oct 23 2020 Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
- Enable tests on armv6
* Wed May 13 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
* Mon Mar 09 2020 Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
- Fix /usr/bin/raku missing due to quoting error in call to ln
* Wed Mar 04 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
* Tue Mar 03 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