Log Message:
(lang/rakudo) Updated 2024.10 to 2025.01

 Rakudo compiler, Release #179 (2025.01)

2025-01-25

On behalf of the Rakudo development team, I’m very happy to announce
the January 2025 release of Rakudo #179. Rakudo is an implementation
of the Raku1 language.

The source tarball for this release is available from
https://rakudo.org/files/rakudo. Pre-compiled archives will be
available shortly.

New in 2025.01:

    Improvements:
        Add lower-bounding for the revision-gated trait [7c7ad5bd][0e9a2d73]
        Pod::To::Text: Sort enum pairs by value [c7004109]

        Improve throughput and reliability of
        CI::PrecompilationRepository [b6242f4b][4919b647]

        Get PRs working for everyone [b6ea5783]

        Make native arrays Cool (e.g. allow native arrays to be
        endpoints for Ranges [17fe51b8][8f38af87]

        Add proper support for regexes to multi-needle .split [77c4c64e][bea1f099]
        Final step of re-imaginining .trans [d7feae2f][e5a715ab][bcd7beaf][f055c31e]
        Update documentation of recently added syscalls [3265ff3b]
        Optimize Str.(words|lines) [603b07ac]

    Additions:
        Add VM.ownup to produce backtraces of all threads and exit \ 
[7ef44ef5][70d66b98]
        Provide adverbial forms of map [24b4001e][720cd014]

    Fixes:
        Fix obsolete reference to CompUnit::PlationStore::File [b2dd1185]
        Make sure strarray.raku doesn't die [c0c2e01f]
        Move precomp docker host ubuntu 24.04 -> 20.04 [eba9332d]
        Use .raku suffix in doc of install-dist instead of .p6 [a66b2e16]

    Internal:
        Run full spectest in CI (#5747) [ebecbeaf]
        Remove unnecessary stubs [3559bb9b]
        Move test file that dies on JVM to t/09-moar [4aa8d331]
        [JVM] Add extra check for GLOBAL being null (#5710) [e7f9223c]
        [JVM] Reduce backend-specific code in find_best_dispatchee (#5714) [8991173f]
        Remove playful "just yet" in error messages [87f0e37f]
        Remove now unnecessary R:I:ALL_TYPE method [26fbd4c3]
        Only call ensure-sc if there is a descriptor [70c268ba]

    RakuAST Development:
        Make A, P, and Δ = Capital Greek Delta) produce AST like markup X [f57a989a]