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Perl 5.8.1 Released

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the new-and-shiny-camels dept.

langles writes "Perl 5.8.1 has been released. Read the official announcement, then download it from a CPAN mirror near you. If you've been following the Perl5 Porters List, you'll know this version was very well tested before they released it. However, there may be some modules that will need to be fixed before they will work with this release." The announcement also contains full details on incompatibilities and known issues, so give it a once over before upgrading, especially if from a pre-5.8 version.

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  1. PerlDoc Bliss! by C60 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Pod::Perldoc

    Complete rewrite. As a side-effect, no longer refuses to startup when run by root.

    Okay, okay, I know, root bad, now shut up. I don't know how many freakin times I've been hacking away at a perl script, as root and had to actually log in as a different user just to read the damn documentation. Thank Wall for small miracles.

    Not that I often read documentation, but anyway.

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