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Perl 5.6.0 Out

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gimme-some-of-the-good-stuff dept.

brockgr was the first to note that Perl 5.6.0 has been released and has begun propagating through CPAN. Anyone have a changelog or something I can link to?

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  1. Change log by dlc · · Score: 3

    The change log is available here.

    darren


    Cthulhu for President!
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    (darren)
    1. Re:Change log by King+Babar · · Score: 4
      The change log is available here.

      Yes, that's true...but it's highly unlikely that this is what most people are interested in.

      What you really want to read is the file perldelta.pod, that comes with the distribution, and, I hope, will appear outside of it somewhere (at www.perl.com?) in the very near future. The Changelog is 1.4 MB of lore that literally logs everything done to perl source since the Bronze age (or sometime around there; I'd have to check). Not that it isn't entertaining or interesting if you've achieved some level of geekiness, but it doesn't give easy answers to questions most people have. :-)

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      Babar

    2. Re:Change log by dlc · · Score: 4

      Yeah, I was working on that one. It's availble here.

      darren


      Cthulhu for President!
      --
      (darren)
  2. 5.6.0 is NOT out by jim_g · · Score: 3

    A quick visit to http://www.perl.com reveals that what has just been released is Release Candidate 3, which is still beta. Close, but still beta.


    -- Jim

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    -- Jim

    If in doubt, use a bigger hammer!
  3. I Feel it is My Duty to Clarify this Nonsense by Skald · · Score: 3
    why say you randall schwartz is felon?

    He was convicted of three felony counts of computer crimes against his employers a few years back. Here's a page with details.

    To put it mildly, many hackers thought Randal was the victim in the whole affair... but read, and decide for yourself.

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    "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." - Alexander Hamilton

  4. Re:Maz'l Tov! by Matts · · Score: 4

    Yes. subs now can have an attribute list, including attributes for thread safety, and lvalueness.

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    Matt. Want XML + Apache + Stylesheets? Get AxKit.
  5. Versioning.. by EraseMe · · Score: 5

    Just in case anyone was wondering, they went from Perl 5.005 to Perl 5.6 because they didn't want to release this as 5.006 as they figured many people may not understand the large significance of this release...

    /me waits eagerly for a woody deb. :)

    EraseMe

  6. mod_perl 1.22 updated to work with Perl 5.6 by dlc · · Score: 5

    As an aside, mod_perl 1.22 has been updated to work with Perl 5.6 (it was released last Wednesday). From the changelog:

    compile fixes for 5.6 + -Duse5005threads
    [Lincoln Stein ]

    darren


    Cthulhu for President!
    --
    (darren)
  7. What New in Perl 5.6 by Skald · · Score: 5

    It's not the changelog per se, but What New in Perl 5.6 might be of interest.

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    "The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed." - Alexander Hamilton