Graal Release 0.6, Truffle API Changes, New Release Schedule

[Thomas Wuerthinger]

We are pleased to announce the release of Graal version 0.6. The main focus of the release are to make enhancements of the Truffle API available for language implementors. Some of the projects building language runtimes on top of Graal are maturing and require more frequent updates. Therefore, we will make Graal releases more frequent with one release per month. For more detailed information about the changes, see the change log [1].

There have been so far several open source language implementations on top of Graal started and we are very happy about this development. Here is a list of the most active ones:
- Ruby: https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle <https://github.com/jruby/jruby/wiki/Truffle>
- R: https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr <https://bitbucket.org/allr/fastr>
- Python: https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy <https://bitbucket.org/ssllab/zippy>
- Smalltalk: https://github.com/smarr/TruffleSOM <https://github.com/smarr/TruffleSOM>
Please do not hesitate to start your own language implementation or join one of the existing efforts. Ping for example @ChrisGSeaton to help out with the Truffle branch of JRuby.

We would like to thank everyone who helped with this release. The updated authors file reflects a further increasing number of contributors to this project [2]. We very much appreciate both direct contributions as well as feedback!

The Graal Team

[1] https://github.com/OracleLabs/GraalVM/blob/f56b94a134587faa06f31bb4824c6547d81b6803/CHANGELOG.md <https://github.com/OracleLabs/GraalVM/blob/f56b94a134587faa06f31bb4824c6547d81b6803/CHANGELOG.md>
[2] https://github.com/OracleLabs/GraalVM/blob/e37ec2226b9114177c944836a20a5b2da7e32847/AUTHORS.md <https://github.com/OracleLabs/GraalVM/blob/e37ec2226b9114177c944836a20a5b2da7e32847/AUTHORS.md>