Perl 5.8.0 RC1 Released

mbadolato writes "use Perl; is reporting that the long-awaited Perl 5.8 has just been released in the form of RC1. It is a release candidate, and is not recommended for use in a production environment, but downloading and testing is strongly encouraged. Read the story for the announcement, and also read perldelta to see what's changed." I think this might be the best .0 release in Perl 5's history, and is will also be the first release of perl to ship with full support for Mac OS X (perl 5.6.1 had a few nagging issues), as well as Classic Mac OS.