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Rakudo Perl #24 has been released. Rakudo is a Perl 6 implementation for Parrot.

This release includes: support for passing 86.1% of the available spectest test suite, improvements to the Rat type and related math functions, and other changes.

Rakudo Perl 6 Development Release #23 has been released. Rakudo is a Perl 6 implementation for Parrot.

This release includes: support for passing 85.5% of the available spectest test suite; support for the unpacking of arrays, hashes and objects in signatures; performance improvements; and other changes.

Perl 5.11.2 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This is a development release.

The Perl Oasis has put out a call for speakers.

It is a Perl workshop being held in Orlando, Florida, USA on January 16, 2010. The topic of the workshop is "Practical Perl for Business".

Frozen Perl 2010 has been announced.

It is a Perl workshop being organized by the Minneapolis Perl Mongers. It will be held from February 5 to 7, 2010, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.

Rakudo Perl 6 Development Release #22 has been released. Rakudo is a Perl 6 implementation for Parrot.

This release includes: support for passing 85% of the available spectest test suite, the implementation of complex numbers as a Perl 6 class, a new signature binder, improved signature introspection, better errors relating to signatures, support for signature literals, support for accessing outer lexical variables from classes and packages, new variants of the series operator, and other changes.

Perl 5.11.1 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This development release includes: support for package declarations that include a version number, the removal of suidperl, the enabling of deprecation warnings by default, the end of support for several older versions of Windows, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on April 21, 2009.

Perl 5.8.9 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This release includes: an update of the Unicode Character Database to 5.1.0, support for source filters in @INC, improved internal UTF-8 caching, Configure support for creating a perl tree that is relocatable at runtime, new internal variables, support for overriding the readpipe built-in function, simple exception handling macros, support for several new platforms, new and updated modules, the new perlthanks utility, new and updated documentation, performance improvements, bug fixes, new tests, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on December 16, 2008.

Parrot 0.8.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the removal of the pseudo PIR opcode 'addr', the addition of the 'box' opcode, the use of .tailcall instead of .return for tailcalls, improved debugging support, the JIT compilation of NCI signatures on x86-32, updates to the Perl 6 and Ruby language implementations, documentation updates, improvements to the OpenGL bindings, bug fixes, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on November 18, 2008. Gryphon Shafer will be discussing the building of a mod_perl-based MVC framework.

Parrot 0.8.0 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: the expansion of float precision from 6 significant digits to 15, the auto-promotion of large integers in PIR to avoid precision loss, improved precision of complex square root, support for exception handlers registering the types of exceptions they catch, updates to the Cardinal implementation of Ruby, updates to the Rakudo implementation of Perl 6, new and updated examples, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

Parrot 0.7.1 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: preliminary support for resumable exceptions, updates to the Rakudo (Perl 6) and Cardinal (Ruby) language implementations, documentation updates and cleanups, and other changes.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on June 17.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on May 20, 2008. Dan Sabath will be speaking about the WhitePages.com public search API.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on April 15, 2008.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on March 18, 2008.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on February 19, 2008.

Parrot 0.5.2 has been released. Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently execute dynamic languages.

This release includes: a LOLCODE language implementation, the new pbc_to_exe utility for turning bytecode into executables, 'make perl6' for building a Perl 6 executable, documentation updates, faster UTF-8 string handling, bug fixes, and other changes.

Perl 5.10.0 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.

This release includes: the new smart match operator, capturing matches based on names, a switch statement, state variables, a defined-or operator, improved error messages, a smaller and faster interpreter, UTF-8 improvements, threading improvements, and other changes.

ActivePerl 5.8.8.822 has been released. ActivePerl is a Perl distribution supporting Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX.

This release includes: updates and fixes from the core Perl repository, and updates to the bundled modules.

It has been announced that the next Seattle Perl Users Group meeting will be held on August 21, 2007.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on June 19, 2007.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on April 17, 2007.