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Graham Knop

Date:

June 9, 2024 20:58

Subject:

perl v5.40.0 is now available

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“What’s your name,” Coraline asked the cat. “Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?” “Cats don’t have names,” it said. “No?” said Coraline. “No,” said the cat. “Now you people have names. That’s because you don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”

-- Neil Gaiman, Coraline

We are happy to announce version 5.40.0, the first release of version 5.40 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.40.0 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/HAARG/perl-5.40.0/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

c740348f357396327a9795d3e8323bafd0fe8a5c7835fc1cbaba0cc8dfe7161f perl-5.40.0.tar.gz d5325300ad267624cb0b7d512cfdfcd74fa7fe00c455c5b51a6bd53e5e199ef9 perl-5.40.0.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/release/HAARG/perl-5.40.0/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.40.0 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.38.0 and contains approximately 160,000 lines of changes across 1,500 files from 75 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 110,000 lines of changes to 1,200 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.40.0:

Abe Timmerman, Alexander Kanavin, Amory Meltzer, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Arne Johannessen, Beckett Normington, Bernard Quatermass, Bernd, Bruno Meneguele, Chad Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Christoph Lamprecht, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Book, Dan Church, Daniel Böhmer, Dan Jacobson, Dan Kogai, David Golden, David Mitchell, E. Choroba, Elvin Aslanov, Erik Huelsmann, Eugen Konkov, Gianni Ceccarelli, Graham Knop, Greg Kennedy, guoguangwu, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, iabyn, Jake Hamby, Jakub Wilk, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Joe McMahon, Johan Vromans, John Karr, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Marco Fontani, Marek Rouchal, Martijn Lievaart, Mathias Kende, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Nicolas Mendoza, Nicolas R, OpossumPetya, Paul Evans, Paul Marquess, Peter John Acklam, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Raul E Rangel, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Scott Baker, Sevan Janiyan, Sisyphus, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz Konojacki, Tom Hughes, Tony Cook, William Lyu, x-yuri, Yves Orton, Zakariyya Mughal, Дилян Палаузов.

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 make the first development snapshot of perl v5.41 on June 20th, 2024. The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2025.

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