Alexey’s Corner

Alexey Melezhik tells us How to pass sensitive data to sparrowdo

Weeklies

Weekly Challenge #337 is available for your stimulation.

Core Developments

• Rakudo compiler, Release #185 (2025.08)
• Make the REPL show lists of Matches better
• Make sure .are doesn’t infiniloop on lazy lists

Questions About Raku

• Unable to print color when color code is taken from array by lisprogator.
• remove-new-lines-and-everything-after-comment-symbol-with-awk-or-sed by jubilatious.

Meanwhile on the Mailing List

• DateTime: (now.Int) always 37 seconds off from (now) by Mark Devine.

New Raku Modules

• Version::RubyGems, Version::Conan, Version::Semverish, Version::Nginx by Elizabeth Mattijsen.

Updated Raku Modules

• Sparrowdo, Sparrow6 by Alexey Melezhik.
• LLM::Graph , LLM::Functions, LLM::Prompts by Anton Antonov.
• Version::Raku, Version::Semver by Elizabeth Mattijsen.
• MIME::Base64, L10N by Various Artists.
• Rakuast::RakuDoc::Render by Richard Hainsworth.
• LibXML, PDF::Tags, PDF::Tags::Reader, PDF::Content, PDF::Class by David Warring.
• Physics::Unit, Physics::Measure, App::Crag by Steve Roe.
• PublicSuffix by JJ Atria.
• Cro::HTTP::Session::MySQL, DB::MySQL by David Romero.
• Terminal::UI, Map::Leaflet by Brian Duggan.
• fez by Tony O’Dell.

Winding down

Kudos to the Core Team for releasing 2025.08. If you are wondering “what’s with all the Version stuff” from Elizabeth Mattijsen, checkout the 4 part Series here.

Please keep staying safe and healthy, and keep up the good work! Even after week 32 of hopefully only 209.

Meanwhile, still: Слава Україні!  Героям слава!

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