perl 5.17.6 is now available!

From: Ricardo Signes

Date: November 20, 2012 16:09

Subject: perl 5.17.6 is now available!

Message ID: 20121121000830.GA24800@cancer.codesimply.com

November 20, 2012 16:09perl 5.17.6 is now available!

Beatrice, looking like a gypsy queen, smoldered at the foot of a statue of a young physical student. At first glance, the laboratory-gowned scientist seemed to be a perfect servant of nothing but truth. At first glance, one was convinced that nothing but truth could please him as he beamed at his test tube. At first glance, one thought that he was as much above the beastly concerns of mankind as the harmoniums in the caves of Mercury. There, at first glance, was a young man without vanity, without lust — and one accepted at its face value the title Salo had engraved on the statue, "Discovery of Atomic Power." -- Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan We give thanks that we are able to announce Perl 5.17.6, the seventh development release of Perl 5.17. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.17.6 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.17.6/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 905e49576c63beef5f74c0da23c95f9fef53eb65 perl-5.17.6.tar.bz2 28a63d851df97cc3ddfd897326f14f172b75a871 perl-5.17.6.tar.gz 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. Perl 5.17.6 represents approximately 5 weeks of development since Perl 5.17.5 and contains approximately 79,000 lines of changes across 460 files from 30 authors. 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 5.17.6: Alexandr Ciornii, Brian Fraser, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Daniel Dragan, David Golden, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Hugo van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Luehrs, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Nicholas Clark, Paul Johnson, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Ruslan Zakirov, Shlomi Fish, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, Tom Wyant, Tony Cook, Vadim Konovalov, Yves Orton. 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 5.17.7 on December 18, 2012. The next major stable release of Perl 5, version 5.18.0, should appear in May 2013. Go now and write bugs no more. -- rjbs

perl 5.17.6 is now available! by Ricardo Signes



