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* Many new tests and cleaning up of older tests, we now have 4200+
* `examples/games/hangman.p6` added, with `AUTHORS` as the dictionary file
* `READTHEM` added; recommended reading for aspiring Pugs hackers
* The Perl 6 Cookbook is well underway at `examples/cookbook/`
* Working perl6 modules added to `ext/`
** CGI.pm
** lib.pm
** HTML::Entities
* Several Working Drafts added to `docs/`
** Apocalypse 20 - Debugging
** Synopsis 26 - Perl Documentation
** Synopsis 28 - Special Variables
** Synopsis 27 - Perl Culture (with CPAN drinking game rules)
** Synopsis 29 - Builtin Functions
* Early work on Perl 6 Object System in `docs/class/`

== Bug Fixes

* Parens no longer required for; `last()` and `return()`
* Fixed issue with binding invocant parameters
* Fixed parsing issue with `lc $, $y`
* `$_` now behaves correctly in most cases
* `exit()` now triggers `END {}` correctly
* `undef $x` now works correctly ($x is rw)
* Fixed parsing of default parameters: `sub foo (+$x = 3, +$y = 4)`
* `say` and `print` now default to `$_`
* `map { ... } @list` now parses correctly
* `loop { ... }` now works correctly
* `int(3) + 4` now parses correctly
* Fix parsefail bug on false unaries
* `for (@list)` no longer flattens `@list`
* `$var.method $param` is now illegal: use `$var.method($param)`
* `readline()` in list context is no longer evaluated lazily
* `$list.join('|')` now works
* `xor` and `^^` now returns the true operand instead of `bool::true`
* Named bindings to `%_` repaired


= 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 responds 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 `$_`


= Changes for 6.0.13 - March 27, 2005

== Pugs Internals

* Support for `given`, `when` and `elsif` statements
* Support for Perl5 style `-I` on the command line
* Command line equivalents of shell commands `:i` and `!`
* Regex now supports `s:perl5///` and `s:perl5:g///`
* `$1`, `$2` etc can be used in `s:perl5:g///` substitutions 
* Experimental *pugscc* backends generating limited Parrot and Haskell code
* Refactored the /VSub/ type to support currying 
* Support for currying: `&foo.assuming(param => 'bar')`
* New file test primitives: `-d` and `-f`
* New logical primitive: `?|`
* Experimental support for `eval_perl5` (not built by default)
* Experimental Inline support; see `ext/SHA1` for example 
* New magicals: `$*EXECUTABLE_NAME` and `$*PROGRAM_NAME`
* Several numeric builtins: `atan2`, `cos`, `sin`, `sqrt`, `exp`
* Beginings of a Pugs class meta-model

== Test, Examples and Documentations

* New test for junctions, regexp and more; about 3200 tests now
* Added 200+ new TODO tests for objects in `t/oo/`
* Added 20 new Perl 5 modules ported to Perl 6
* Added `t/README`, `modules/README` and `modules/PORTING_HOWTO`
* Much work on the test-cataloger and Synopsis cross-referencer
* Work on plan for smoke testing framework using *YAML* and *Test::Harness*
* Work on HTML output gathered from *Test::Harness* YAML output
* Actual working port of most of *File::Spec* complete with tests and docs
* Added support for outputing test logs with *Test.pm*
* Added documentation to *pugscc*
* Several TODO tests for command line options
* `fix_authors.pl` now handles UTF8 input 
* New golf-based tests in `t/examples/golf.t`
* Added `examples/mandel.p5` for benchmarking against `mandel.p6`
* The first JAPH for Pugs in `examples/japh/`