Parrot 4.0.0 "Hyperstasis" Released!

At one extreme, it is possible to approach the subject on a high mathematical
epsilon-delta level, which generally results in many undergraduate students not
knowing what's going on. At the other extreme, it is possible to wave away all
the subtleties until neither the student nor the teacher knows what's going on.

-Stanley J. Farlow, Preface to Partial Differential Equations for Scientists and
Engineers

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 4.0.0,
also known as "Hyperstasis". Parrot
is a virtual machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 4.0.0 is available on Parrot's FTP
site
, or by following the download
instructions
. For those who want to hack on Parrot or languages that run on top of Parrot,
we recommend our organization page on GitHub,
or you can go directly to the official Parrot Git repo on Github

To clone the Parrot Git repo into a directory called 'parrot', use the following:

    git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git

If you want it to be in a directory other than 'parrot', then just give that as a second
argument to clone:

    git clone git://github.com/parrot/parrot.git parrot_foo

Parrot 4.0.0 News:

    - Core
        + Several cleanups to the interp subsystem API
        + Cleanups and documentation additions for green threads and timers
        + Iterator PMC and family now implement the "iterator" role
        + A bug in Parrot_ext_try was fixed where it was not popping a context correctly
    - Documentation
        + Docs for all versions of Parrot ever released are now available
          at http://parrot.github.com
    - Tests
        + Timer PMC tests were converted from PASM to PIR

The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:

a1e0bc3de509b247b2cea4863cc202cdceeaa329729416115d3c20a162a0dd88 parrot-4.0.0.tar.bz2
a63d45f50f7dd8ba76395cd2af14108412398ac24b8d827db369221cdb37fada parrot-4.0.0.tar.gz

Thanks to all our contributors for making this possible, and our sponsors
for supporting this project. Our next release is 21 February 2012.

Enjoy!

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