Perl 5.26.0 released

Perl 5.26.0 represents approximately 13 months of development since Perl 5.24.0 and contains approximately 360,000 lines of changes across 2,600 files from 86 authors

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The Perl 5.26.0 release is out. "". See this page for a list of changes in this release; new features include indented here-documents, the ability to declare references to variables, Unicode 9.0 support, and the removal of the current directory ("") fromby default.

From: Sawyer X <xsawyerx-AT-gmail.com> To: "perl5-porters-AT-perl.org" <perl5-porters-AT-perl.org> Subject: Perl 5.26.0 is now available! Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 22:04:20 +0200 Message-ID: <cb5ef62e-1d70-3476-b1e3-f7617c0ade3d@gmail.com> Cc: noc-AT-metacpan.org

I've got the life And I'm gonna keep it I've got the life And nobody's gonna take it away I've got the life -- Nina Simone, Ain't Got No / I Got Life We are thrilled to announce perl v5.26.0, the first stable release of version 26 of Perl 5. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.26.0 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.26.0/ SHA1 digests for this release are: e1abc572ef5bb69ebfa0f79a60a7eae753cc7b29 perl-5.26.0.tar.gz 2ca1b28f2c3ed4cc3b74be89d150ed0377f0336a perl-5.26.0.tar.bz2 50f14ebdaa509ff5ef9b32ad388a1e6237c882dd perl-5.26.0.tar.xz You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web at https://metacpan.org/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.26.0/pod... Perl 5.26.0 represents approximately 13 months of development since Perl 5.24.0 and contains approximately 360,000 lines of changes across 2,600 files from 86 authors. Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 230,000 lines of changes to 1,800 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.26.0: Aaron Crane, Abigail, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Alex Vandiver, Andreas König, Andreas Voegele, Andrew Fresh, Andy Lester, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chad Granum, Chase Whitener, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Chris Lamb, Christian Hansen, Christian Millour, Colin Newell, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Collins, Daniel Dragan, Dave Cross, Dave Rolsky, David Golden, David H. Gutteridge, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Doug Bell, E. Choroba, Ed Avis, Father Chrysostomos, François Perrad, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, Ivan Pozdeev, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jerry D. Hedden, Jim Cromie, J. Nick Koston, John Lightsey, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Matthew Horsfall, Maxwell Carey, Misty De Meo, Neil Bowers, Nicholas Clark, Nicolas R., Niko Tyni, Pali, Paul Marquess, Peter Avalos, Petr Písař, Pino Toscano, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Levitte, Rick Delaney, Salvador Fandiño, Samuel Thibault, Sawyer X, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni, Sergey Aleynikov, Shlomi Fish, Smylers, Stefan Seifert, Steffen Müller, Stevan Little, Steve Hay, Steven Humphrey, Sullivan Beck, Theo Buehler, Thomas Sibley, Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Unicode Consortium, Yaroslav Kuzmin, Yves Orton, Zefram. The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker. Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish. For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution. We expect to release perl v5.26.1 in about a month, give or take. The next major version of Perl 5, version 28.0, should appear around April or May 2018. In bugs and hugs, Sawyer x.