[mrjbq7]

The releases have varied over the years from less than a year, to almost two years between "releases". For some historical context:

0.93 was released April 16, 2010.

0.94 was released September 18, 2010 (+5 months).

0.95 was released August 16, 2012 (+23 months, 2500 commits).

0.96 was released April 20, 2013 (+9 months, 1100 commits).

0.97 was released November 1, 2014 (+19 months, 1400 commits).

The core developers (I am one) generally use the latest development version which, except for some changes to the build farm a few months ago, is made available as tested nightly builds from our build farm.

A partial reason for the delayed release was waiting for sufficient changes to "justify" a release (a bit of a soft qualitative delay, especially as we kept working on some new features). Going to a time-based release schedule might be nice, something to think about anyway.

[colomon]

Eh, the Rakudo Perl 6 implementation has been doing monthly releases since before 2010, and I don't get the impression that's done much to convince doubters. (Despite amazing progress since 2010.) Those of us working on developing it mostly grab the latest source from github and work from that, much the same as you guys.

Keep the faith, the world needs more powerful, offbeat languages!