Parrot 0.8.0, "Pareto Principle" released

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.0
"Pareto Principle." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual
machine aimed at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.8.0 is available via CPAN, 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 0.8.0 News:
- Implementation
  + float precision expanded to 15 significant digits from 6
  + large integers autopromoted in PIR so as not to lose precision
  + improved precision of complex square root
  + exception handlers can register types of exceptions they catch
- Languages
  + Cardinal (Ruby)
    - implemented gather, take, and yield builtins
    - Range, Time, Math, GC, Kernel classes
    - many more tests
    - added a new committer
  + Markdown : new lightweight markup language
    - start implementation with PCT/NQP
  + partcl (Tcl 8.5.4)
    - Moved to its own repository: http://code.google.com/p/partcl/
  + Rakudo (Perl 6)
    - split() works with regexes
    - implemented Str.comb
    - ord() and chr() builtins