Parrot 0.5.0 is out

The monthly Parrot release is out, version 0.5.0. Included in this version:

• Implementation
• PDD15 (OO) branch merged with trunk; this release contains a working, tested implementation of the latest OO model
• Added pop_eh/push_eh_p/count_eh opcodes
• Add --runcore command line option
• Add gcdebug runcore to help track down GC bugs
• minor improvements to IA-32 JIT
• Documentation
  • PDD19 (PIR): updates to macros, .pcc* directives
  • PDD25 (Concurrency): updated
  • PDD26 (AST): draft approved
  • PDD23 (Exceptions): draft approved
  • Copyright cleanups
• Languages/Compilers
  • languages/APL: minor updates, PDD15 conformance
  • languages/dotnet: minor updates
  • languages/lua: minor updates, PDD15 conformance
  • languages/lisp: minor updates
  • languages/perl6: minor updates, PDD15 conformance
  • languages/plumhead: minor updates
  • languages/punie: minor updates, PDD15 conformance
  • languages/nqp: minor updates
  • languages/scheme: many updates, PDD15 conformance, improved tests, use PMCs instead of primitive registers to represent values
  • languages/tcl: bugfixes, PDD15 conformance
  • languages/WMLScript: minor updates
  • compilers/pirc: updates from PDD19, PDD06
  • compilers/pct: minor updates, PDD15 conformance
  • compilers/pge: PDD15 conformance
  • compilers/tge: PDD15 conformance
• Configuration
  • Improve test coverage
  • Improve reporting when a step fails; allow abort on failure
• Miscellaneous
  • More coding standard conformance, tests, cleanup, speedups, warnings cleanup
  • Bug cleanup, esp. GC bugs
  • Eliminate .imc extension (use .pir)
  • Simplify some core config steps to not allow interactive prompting
• Removed
  • clear_eh opcode