Release announcement for perl v5.41.3 (original) (raw)

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From:

philippe

Date:

August 29, 2024 13:36

Subject:

Release announcement for perl v5.41.3

Message ID:

ZtB5PHJCscxXc3Rh@kapow.home

Somebody once said that the library is actually the dominant life form on the planet. Humans simply exist as the reproductive means to achieve more libraries.

-- Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

We are happy to announce version 5.41.3, the third development release of version 5.41 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.41.3 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/BOOK/perl-5.41.3/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

7b9cd0f84a5350ea485ae6c57f3231d338f8a00c23f193db3964a60d38cf8850 perl-5.41.3.tar.gz e4f23aa6160a3830bdbefa241c87018a33e21da9e0ad915332158832d0fd8230 perl-5.41.3.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/BOOK/perl-5.41.3/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.41.3 represents approximately 6 weeks of development since Perl 5.41.2 and contains approximately 34,000 lines of changes across 740 files from 23 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 22,000 lines of changes to 370 .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 5.41.3:

Branislav Zahradník, Chad Granum, Craig A. Berry, Dan Jacobson, David Mitchell, E. Choroba, Eric Herman, Graham Knop, iabyn, James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Max Maischein, Paul Evans, Paul Marquess, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Sisyphus, Štěpán Němec, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Thibault Duponchelle, Tony Cook.

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 version 5.41.4 on 2024-09-20. The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2025.

Enjoy!

-- Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

When you double-cross a friend, you triple-cross yourself. (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #8 (Epic))