Parrot 0.7.1 "Manu Aloha" released

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.7.1
"Manu Aloha." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.7.1 is available via CPAN (soon), or follow the download
instructions at http://parrotcode.org/source.html .  For those who would 
like to develop on Parrot, or help develop Parrot itself, we recommend 
using Subversion on the source code repository to get the latest and 
best Parrot code.

Parrot 0.7.1 News:
- Implementation
  + add -I and -L command line options
  + support for null strings in NCI calls
  + preliminary support for resumable exceptions
  + add '.hll_map' method for dynamic HLL type mapping
  + more parrot_debugger fixes
  + remove obsolete '.past' extension
- Languages
  + Rakudo (Perl 6)
    - now over 3300 passing spectests
    - precompiled modules
    - precompiled scripts  (--target=pir can now be executed standalone)
    - Support for  <at> *INC and %*INC varialbes
    - additional builtin methods and subs
    - added 'fail' function, warnings on use of undefined values
    - m/.../ regexes
    - qq, qw, q quoting forms
    - run tests in parallel
    - gather/take