You’re packing a suitcase for a place none of us has been
A place that has to be believed to be seen
You could have flown away
A singing bird in an open cage
Who will only fly, only fly for freedom…

What you’ve got they can’t deny it
Can’t sell it, can’t buy it
Walk on…

— U2, “Walk On”

Parrot 1.0.0 puede conseguirse en El sitio FTP de Parrot, o siguiendo las instrucciones de descarga. Para aquellos a los que les gustaría desarrollar en parrot, o ayudar a desarrollar el mismísimo Parrot, se les recomienda usar Subversion en el repositorio de código fuente para así tener acceso al último código disponible

Novedades en Parrot 1.0.0:

- Documentation
  + New user documentation for exceptions.
  + Updates to Chapters 4 & 5 of the Parrot book.
  + Improved and expanded generated HTML documentation, as
    the input for http://docs.parrot.org.
  + Added Compiled HTML Help (.chm) version of documentation.
  + Cleanups and fixes.
- Languages
  + Pynie
    - left the nest and is now at
      http://pynie.googlecode.com/
  + Cardinal
    - left the nest and is now at
      http://github.com/cardinal
  + APL
    - left the nest and is now at
      http://paraplegic.googlecode.com/
  + ABC, Squaak, and Befunge moved to examples/.
  + All remaining languages moved to
    https://svn.parrot.org/languages/
- Tools
  + Support for language builds from an installed Parrot.
  + Expanded language shell generator for new languages.
  + 'parrotbug' utility repurposed for the Trac interface.
- Deprecations
  + Removed deprecated Tqueue and Closure PMCs.
  + String, Key, NCI, LexPad, Iterator, Sub, Continuation,
    RetContinuation, ExceptionHandler, ParrotLibrary,
    ParrotInterpreter, ParrotThread, ParrotRunningThread,
    Rational, FixedPMCArray, ResizablePMCArray, and GDBMHash
    PMCs now use declared attributes (ATTR), in place of the
    deprecated UnionVal.