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Sorry for falling off sleeping last night and skipped a journal. I was about to push 6.0.14 out that night, right after ingy, gugod and mugwump had figured out FreePAN out, but my brain refused to stay up anymore...

This morning I resume working, finally releasing 6.0.14 right before I go to $work. The full release notes is as below. See you tomorrow, when my brain hopefully is less exhausted. :-)

Changes for 6.0.14 - April 4, 2005

Pugs Internals

• We now require GHC 6.4 on all platforms
• Added socket primitives: listen(), connect(), accept()
• Added thread primitives: async(), yield()
• Added string primitives: chr(), ord(), hex(), split()
• Adverb pairs: :key(123), :key<abc>, :key[1,2,3] and :key
• pugscc may now be invoked outside the pugs source tree
• slurp() now works on IO handles
• Non-interpolated q// literals
• Tentative %?CONFIG hash
• pugs -V:configvar now displays that config variable
• Command line improvements (-I, -l, -e, etc.)
• Minimal IMC compiler as src/IMC.hs
• Began work on GADTs; the Pad now holds Symbol Val types only
• Support definition and invocation of subs with namespaces

Tests, Examples and Documentations

• Many new tests: we have around 3850 now.
• modules/ have been relocated to FreePAN. See modules/README
• t/Synopsis/ have been relocated to Perl6::Bible on CPAN.
• HTML generated by testgraph now reponds to mouseover
• New autosmoker script added
• Many cross-referencer improvements
• Normalize all t/ to begin with #!/usr/bin/pugs
• VICTUALS file added on April Fools
• Debian package scripts in debian/
• Updates on the Vim syntax file as util/perl6.vim
• Pugs::MakeMaker is renamed to Perl6::MakeMaker
• First Pugs obfuscation in examples/obfu/
• HTTP server and client examples in examples/network/

Bug Fixes

• ~~ now takes variables on the right hand side
• Correct installation locations for ext/ modules
• { block } in qq and rx no longer skips trailing whitespaces
• pugs -e may now use @*ARGS in the one-liner
• rx:perl:g no longer ignores the :g
• $:x and $.x now parsed as variable names
• Readline support is correctly probed on Makefile.PL time
• Mimick Perl 5's behaviour for function that defaults to $_