This just in from Leopold Toetsch:

Parrot 0.1.0 "Leaping Kakapo" Released!

The Parrot team proudly presents the Parrot 0.1.0 leap release. It provides some milestones like objects and multi-threading(^*) and supports many more platforms.

After some pause you can grab it from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/L/LT/LTOETSCH/parrot-0.1.0.tar.gz or just get the latest and best from CVS by following the directions at http://dev.perl.org/cvs/.

Turn your web browser towards http://www.parrotcode.org/ for more information about Parrot, get involved, and:

Have fun!
leo

(^*)The list of changes includes:

• "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you... objects!"
• Huge documentation overhaul
• More supported platforms, s. PLATFORMS
• Basic thread support for pthread based architectures
• Basic event handling for timers and signals including:
• PASM callbacks for NCI (native C) functions.
• Improved platform configuration
• COW stacks now working, stacks code redone
• Structure handling vastly improved
• Random PMC and rand primitives
• Better subroutine call syntax in PIR
• Make PIR subroutines compliant with pdd03
• Improved profiling (DOD, GC timings)
• Hash code improvements, incl. random key order support
• Experimental freeze/thaw code for some PMC types
• IO improvements for buffered layer and Win32
• String iterators
• String bitwise vtables
• Many new opcodes
• Suppport for JIT, where malloced memory isn't executable
• Priority DOD scheme for objects that need timely destruction
• Improved byte code loading (e.g. onLoad functions)
• Language updates: forth, Perl6/P6C, m4
• Libraries: Getopt_Long, SDL, Dumper, Sort
• new JAPH examples
• Unified imcc and parrot test handling
• Many new tests (make test reports 1386 tests)
• Numerous bug fixes

Liz