News announcements
October 11, 2024 - Pike Conference 2024 This years Pike conference will be held at Roxen's offices in Linköping November 2:nd and 3:rd. Read more
September 20, 2024 - Pike 9.0.9 Beta
Pike 9.0.9 beta is now available!
This is the second beta of the Pike 9.0 series,
which is intended to become the next stable series.
Download the
distribution.
July 1, 2024 - Pike 9.0.7 Beta
Pike 9.0.7 beta is now available!
This is the first beta of the Pike 9.0 series,
which is intended to become the next stable series.
Download the
distribution.
April 17, 2024 - Pike Meet-up 2024-Q2 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices May 11th. Read more
January 17, 2024 - Pike Meet-up 2024-Q1 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices February 17th. Read more
October 11, 2023 - Pike Conference 2023 This years Pike conference will be held at Roxen's offices in Linköping November 4:th and 5:th. Read more
April 17, 2023 - Pike Meet-up 2023-Q2 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices May 6th. Read more
January 11, 2023 - Pike Meet-up 2023-Q1 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices February 18th. Read more
October 12, 2022 - Pike Conference 2022 This years Pike conference will be held at Roxen's offices in Linköping November 5:th and 6:th. Read more
July 24, 2022 - Pike Meet-up 2022-Q3 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices Aug 28th. Read more
April 20, 2022 - Pike Meet-up 2022-Q2 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices May 7th. Read more
March 2, 2022 - Pike 8.0 release 15 available The Pike development team is pleased to announce the 15th release of Pike 8.0: build 8.0.1738. Source code as well as binary builds for MacOS, Linux and Windows are available for download. Read more
October 20, 2021 - Pike Meet-up 2021-Q4 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices November 6th. Read more
December 24, 2020 - Pike 8.0 Release 14 Pike 8.0 release 14 is now available! This is build 8.0.1116. Download it here
January 9, 2020 - Pike Meet-up 2020-Q1 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices February 1st. Read more
August 30, 2019 - Pike Conference 2019 This years Pike conference will be held at the Opera offices in Linköping November 2:nd and 3:rd. Read more
July 19, 2019 - Pike Meet-up 2019-Q3 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices August 4th. Read more
April 17, 2019 - Pike Meet-up 2019-Q2 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices May 4th. Read more
January 19, 2019 - Pike Meet-up 2019-Q1 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices February 2nd. Read more
November 1, 2018 - Pike 8.0 Release 13 Pike 8.0 release 13 is now available! This is build 8.0.702. Download it here
September 7, 2018 - Pike Conference 2018 This years Pike conference will be held at the Opera offices in Linköping November 3:rd and 4:th. Read more
July 18, 2018 - Pike Meet-up 2018-Q3 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices August 5th. Read more
May 19, 2018 - Pike 8.0 Release 12
Pike 8.0 release 12 is now available!
Download build 8.0.610 here
May 4, 2018 - Pike Meet-up 2018-Q2 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices May 19th. Read more
January 19, 2018 - Pike Meet-up 2018-Q1 Pike developers will meet at Roxen's Linköping offices February 3:rd. Read more
November 3, 2017 - Pike 8.0 Release 11
Pike 8.0 release 11 is now available!
This is build 8.0.498.
Download it here
October 9, 2017 - Pike Conference 2017 This years Pike conference will be held at the Opera offices in Linköping November 4:th and 5:th. Read more
September 24, 2017 - Pike 8.0 Release 10
Pike 8.0 release 10 is now available!
This is build 8.0.466.
Download it here
June 18, 2017 - Pike 8.0 Release 9
Pike 8.0 release 9 is now available!
This is build 8.0.438.
Download it here
February 10, 2017 - Pike 8.0 release 8 is now available!
This is build 8.0.404.
Download it here
January 2, 2017 - Pike 8.0 Release 7
Pike 8.0 release 7 is now available!
This is build 8.0.388.
Download it here
December 12, 2016 - Pike 8.0 Release 6
Pike 8.0 release 6 is now available!
This is build 8.0.370.
Download it here
November 20, 2016 - Pike 8.0 Release 5
Pike 8.0 release 5 is now available!
This is build 8.0.358.
Download it here
November 3, 2016 - Pike site redesigned!
The site design has received its first major update in quite a
while.
October 13, 2016 - Pike Conference 2016 announced. On November 4-5, Roxen will hold a Pike developer conference in Linköping, Sweden. Read up on the details and register at the conference page.
July 11, 2016 - Pike 8.0 Release 4
Pike 8.0 release 4 is now available!
This is build 8.0.276.
Download it with the big green button on the left.
May 15, 2016 - Pike 8.0 Release 3
Pike 8.0 release 3 is now available!
This is build 8.0.240.
Download it with the big green button on the left.
March 3, 2016 - Pike 8.0 Release 2
Pike 8.0 release 2 is now available!
This is build 8.0.182.
Download it with the big green button on the left.
February 9, 2016 - Pike 8.0 RELEASED!
Pike 8.0 release is now available!
The final build is 8.0.164.
Download it with the big green button on the left.
February 8, 2016 - Pike 8.0.164 Beta
Pike 8.0.164 beta is now available!
This is the fifth beta of the Pike 8.0 series,
which is intended to become the next stable series.
Download the distribution.
February 7, 2016 - Pike 8.0.162 Beta
Pike 8.0.162 beta is now available!
This is the fourth beta of the Pike 8.0 series,
which is intended to become the next stable series.
Download the distribution.
January 1, 2016 - Pike 8.0.146 Beta
Pike 8.0.146 beta is now available!
This is the third beta of the Pike 8.0 series,
which is intended to become the next stable series.
Download the distribution.
December 31, 2015 - Pike 7.8.866 Released
Pike 7.8.866 is now released!
This is an update of the 7.8 stable series.
Read the release
notes and
download the distribution.
June 25, 2014 - Pike 7.8.866 Released
Pike 7.8.866 is now released!
This is an update of the 7.8 stable series.
Read the release
notes and
download the distribution.
October 5, 2013 - Pike Conference 2013 This years pike-conference will be held at the Roxen offices November 1:st to 3:rd. Read more
December 18, 2012 - Pike Google+ Community Find us on Google+ and share your own Pike news with the community at large.
October 2, 2012 - Pike Conference 2012 This years pike-conference will be held at the Opera offices November 3:rd to 4:th. Read more
September 16, 2012 - Pike 7.8.700 Released
Pike 7.8.700 is now released!
This is an update of the 7.8 stable series.
Read the release notes and
download the distribution.
November 7, 2011 - Pike Conference 2011
This years Pike conference was held at Roxen's offices in
Linköping, Sweden November 3 to November 5. Participants
joined from Europe and North America. Among the Topics
discussed where a new maintainer for pike releases, a change
in the release versioning, and the new garbage collector as
part of the multi-cpu support that is being worked on.
This is a report of the conference by Martin Stjernholm.
Read more
October 3, 2010 - Pike 7.9 development branch opened After a long stabilization period, the 7.8 branch of Pike has been deemed stable, and a new branch 7.9 been opened.
October 2, 2010 - Pike repository migrated to git After a year of tuning, the conversion of the Pike CVS repositories to a git repository has completed. Read more
September 21, 2010 - Pike Users and Developers Conference 2010 Join us in Berlin, Germany, for the 4th Annual Pike conference, to be held on October 18 and 19. Everyone, whether you're a core developer or a new user, is welcome to join us. For more information and to register, please visit the official conference website at pike2010.webhaven.eu. Read more
September 23, 2009 - Pike 7.8.352 Released
Pike 7.8.352 is now released!
This is an update of the 7.8 stable series.
Read the release notes and
download the distribution.
July 8, 2009 - Pike 7.8.316 Released
Pike 7.8.316 is now released!
This is an update of the 7.8 stable series.
Read the release notes and
download the distribution.
December 31, 2008 - Pike 7.8 Released
Pike 7.8 is now released!
Read the release notes and
download the distribution.
June 18, 2008 - Pike 7.8 Release Sprint In order to wrap up the work and squash the remaining blocker bugs to get Pike 7.8 ready for a release, the Pike developers are planning to get together in Linköping on the last weekend of june 2008. Read more
October 10, 2007 - Pike Conference 2007 to be held in Copenhagen, Denmark Registration is now open for this year's conference, to be held November 14th through the 16th in Copenhagen Denmark. Read more
July 16, 2007 - New Pike book available Pike: An Introduction, the definitive tutorial for the Pike programming language is now available for purchase. Read more
April 25, 2007 - Pike 7.6.112 released. A new official version of Pike 7.6 has been released. Read the release notes and download the distribution. (A historic event, in that a win32 installer is released at the same time as the source release.)
August 29, 2006 - Pike Conference 2006 Registration is now open for the 2006 Pike Conference. This year's event will be held in Riga, Latvia, from the 18th through the 22th of October. See the Conference website for more details. Read more
June 20, 2006 - Opera Mini uses Pike The 2.0 release of Opera Mini includes a "third parties" page that names Pike as one of the components. At a technical presentation at Linköping University earlier this year it was revealed that the Opera Mini server software is written in Pike.
June 6, 2006 - Pike 7.6.86 released. A new official version of Pike 7.6 has been released. Read the release notes and download the distribution.
January 29, 2006 - Pike 7.6.66 released. A new official version of Pike 7.6 has been released. Read the release notes and download the distribution.
November 3, 2005 - Pike 7.6.50 released. A new official version of Pike 7.6 has been released. Read the release notes and download the distribution.
June 20, 2005 - Pike at the LinuxTag 2005 From the 22nd to the 25th of June, We will have the opportunity to present Pike at the LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany. Read more
October 28, 2004 - Pike Camp and Conference Wrap-up A wrap-up article with hilights of the conference is now available here. Read more
October 3, 2004 - Pike between UML and Java - a Use Case in University Education The Keynote for the Pike Camp and Conference will be given by Uwe Assmann on saturday the 16th of october. Read more
September 29, 2004 - Pike 7.6.24 A new release of Pike 7.6 is now available from our download page. You'll find a list of the most important improvements in the release notes.
September 12, 2004 - Pike Camp and Conference 2004 Registration is now open for the 2004 Pike Camp and Conference. This year's event will be held in Essen, Germany, from the 13th through the 19th of October. See the Camp and Conference website for more details. Read more
May 12, 2004 - Pike at the Linuxtag 2004 From the 23rd to the 26th of June, We will have the opportunity to present Pike at the Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, Germany. Read more
May 5, 2004 - Pike 7.6 The latest major release of Pike, Pike 7.6 is now available from our download page (source direct download). You'll find a summary of all the changes between Pike 7.4 and Pike 7.6 in the release notes.
March 4, 2004 - Pike 7.4.44 A new release of Pike 7.4 is now available from our download page. You'll find a list of the most important improvements in the release notes.
March 1, 2004 - Pike in Latvia Our Pike Evangelist Martin Bähr is giving a series of Pike sessions during his visit to Latvia. Topics will cover everything from Pike coding style to usage of Pike Applications (such as RXML in Roxen and Caudium) Read more
December 11, 2003 - New ADTs thesis presented Andreas Pettersson presented his thesis work at 8 o'clock in John von Neumann, building B, Linköping University.
September 29, 2003 - Pike Conference 2003 held Just back from this year's Pike conference in Paderborn, we would like to thank hosts and participants alike. Results and photos to come.
September 17, 2003 - Pike 7.4.28 released. A new release of Pike 7.4 is now available from our download page. You'll find a list of the most important improvements in the release notes.
September 4, 2003 - Register for the conference! Pike Conference 2003 in Paderborn, Germany is only a few weeks away (September 25 to 27), and it is time to register - visit the conference website now.
August 31, 2003 - Pike ebuild A Gentoo ebuild package of Pike is now available, thanks to Rainer Groesslinger.
July 28, 2003 - Edit Pike in jEdit Peter Lundqvist has written a review of how it is to edit Pike code in jEdit.
June 25, 2003 - Pike booth at the Linuxtag From the 10th to the 13th of July, Pike will be present at the Linuxtag in Karlsruhe, Germany. Read more
May 5, 2003 - Pike Conference 2003 announced. On September 25-27, University of Paderborn will hold this year's Pike user conference in Paderborn, Germany.
April 4, 2003 - Pike 7.4.20 released. The second release of Pike 7.4 is now available from our download page. The past month has seen many bugs go. Read up on the fixes in the release notes. More binary distributions will show up as soon as we get them.
February 25, 2003 - Pike C/CMOD thesis presented. Andreas Finnman presented his thesis work at 13 o'clock in John von Neumann, building B, Linköping University.
December 20, 2002 - Pike 7.4 released. Pike 7.4 can now be downloaded from our download page. Be sure to read the release notes. We worked long and hard with them.
December 5, 2002 - Pike CVS split. The Pike 7.3 CVS is now split into the development tree 7.5 and the stable release tree 7.4. Read more
October 1, 2002 - Pike Master's Theses projects. We now have two Master's Theses students working on Pike: Andreas Finnman, who is busy writing documentation for the C module APIs, and Andreas Pettersson, who is going to implement some ADTs.
July 1, 2002 - Roxen Internet Software donates 14 machines from the former AutoBuild cluster to the Pike Xenofarm project. These machines will be used for automated Pike regression testing within the RISE project. Read more
June 26, 2002 - Pike changes maintainer - IDA is now the official owner and maintainer of Pike. Read more
June 21, 2002 - Pike Conference 2002 announced. On August 22-24, IDA will hold a Pike user conference in Linköping, Sweden. Read up on the highlights of the programme and the conference page itself.
May 1, 2002 - Xenofarm project under way. The Roxen IS AutoBuild system that has served Pike since year 2000 is about to get a worthy successor. Read more
April 5, 2002 - Pike Article in Linux Journal
March 11, 2002 - Pike newsletter started by Mikael Brandström. Please feed him with every bit of news you have about Pike and related projects.
November 27, 2001 - Pike 7.2.239 released - A new official version of Pike 7.2 has been released. Read the release notes and download the distribution.