Parrot 5.0.0 "Johnny Five Alive" Released!

"No disassemble!"
    -- Johnny Five

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 5.0.0, also known
as "Johnny Five Alive". Parrot ( is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 5.0.0 consists of 175 new commits from six authors on the master branch
since the 4.11.0 release. Notably, this is the first stable release of Parrot
with thread support (via the Task PMC).

Parrot 5.0.0 is available on Parrot's FTP site
(, or by following the
download instructions at For those who would like

Parrot 5.0.0 News:
    - Core
        + Remove duplicate library search path entries, move "." from the beginning to
          the end. [GH #368]
        + Install forgotten runtime include files:
        + Install include/parrot/pbcversion.h with the main package, not devel.
        + Install headers for dynpmc files.
        + Install libraries tgc.pbc, NCI/Utils.pbc, OpenGL/Math.pbc, PCT/Dumper.pbc,
          postgres.pbc, ProfTest.pbc and ProfTest/*pbc, String/Utils.pbc, URI/Escape.pbc,
          YAML/Dumper/Base.pbc, YAML/Dumper/Default.pbc
        + New experimental PARROT_DYNEXT environment variable
        + New experimental dynext_dirs config entry (same as PARROT_DYNEXT and -X)
        + Add OS error messages to error messages [GH #911]
    - Build
        + Generate MANIFEST.generated, cleanup MANIFEST,
          removed MANIFEST_configure.generated, add installation of forgotten files
          [GH #890]
        + perl now calls make clean if possible
        + Generate datadir/MANIFEST* for all installed files [GH #899]
        + Improved probes for --with-llvm
        + Replace / slashes with \ on windows for all Makefiles automatically.
          This improves cygwin interaction, like remote or cronjob smoking on windows.
        + Reenabled and fixed debugging line directives in pmc2c, ops2c not yet [GH #641]
    - Tools
        + Improved nci_thunk_gen (v0.02): handle void sig, add declaration
        + Fixed nci examples
    - Documentation
        + Re-added docs/ops, the generated ops summary and docs/packfile-c.pod
        + Improved pdd10_embedding
        + Document exceptions and error messages
    - Tests
        + Added t/library/lib_search_path.t

The SHA256 message digests for the downloadable tarballs are:

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for supporting this project. We would especially like to thank Google for donating
$5000 to Parrot Foundation for participating in Google Code-In.

Our next scheduled release is 19 Feb 2013.