Parrot 0.8.2 "Feliz Loro" Released!

On behalf of the Parrot team, I'm proud to announce Parrot 0.8.2
"Feliz Loro." Parrot (http://parrotcode.org/) is a virtual machine aimed
at running all dynamic languages.

Parrot 0.8.2 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 0.8.2 News:
- Implementation
  + fixed lexical semantics
  + added the 'capture_lex' opcode
  + added automatic resume for nonfatal exceptions
  + added multidispatch cache
  + applied miscellaneous performance improvements, including startup time
  + fixed several bugs and leaks found by Coverity Scan
  + removed race conditions from parallel testing
- Compilers
  + IMCC
    - removed undocumented .param int <stringc> => <ident> syntax
    - .line directive now only takes an integer argument
    - new .file directive to specify the file name being compiled
  + PCT
    - properly handles lexical generation and closure semantics
    - uses :subid instead of name lookups to reference PAST::Block nodes
    - added PAST::Control node type (exception handlers)
  + PGE
    - add support for <?{{...}}> and <!{{...}}> assertions