Submission + - Perl 5.12.0 is now available (perl.org)
acid06 writes: After two years of development, the new major version of Perl is now available.
Notable new features are: better Unicode support, proper support for time after the Y2038 barrier, new APIs to allow developers to extend Perl with "pluggable" keywords and syntax, warnings for deprecated features and more. From the linked post:
Notable new features are: better Unicode support, proper support for time after the Y2038 barrier, new APIs to allow developers to extend Perl with "pluggable" keywords and syntax, warnings for deprecated features and more. From the linked post:
This release cycle marks a change to a time-based release process. Beginning with version 5.11.0, we make a new development release of Perl available on the 20th of each month. Each spring, we will release a new stable version of Perl. One month later, we will make a minor update to deal with any issues discovered after the initial ".0" release. Future releases in the stable series will follow quarterly. In contrast to releases of Perl, maintenance releases will contain fixes
for issues discovered after the
You can get it from the CPAN right now or wait for a platform specific release (such as Strawberry Perl for Windows).
