Perl v5.38.0 released
posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 04, 2023
Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a
man can do in this life is to let himself die.
— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote
We are happy to announce version 38.0, the first stable release of version 38
of Perl 5. In other words: v5.38.0 has been released, and this is good!
You will soon be able to download Perl 5.38.0 from the CPAN at:
https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.38.0/
SHA256 digests for this release are:
5c4dea06509959fedcccaada8d129518487399b7 perl-5.38.0.tar.gz
2e7b1c56c1f795e8173c83a52e91218ba05ee72c perl-5.38.0.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/pod/release/RJBS/perl-5.38.0/pod/per...
Perl 5.38.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl
5.36.0 and contains approximately 290,000 lines of changes across 1,500 files
from 100 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 190,000 lines of changes to 970 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a
vibrantcommunity of users and developers. The following people are known to
have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.38.0:
Alex, Alexander Nikolov, Alex Davies, Andreas König, Andrew Fresh, Andrew
Ruthven, Andy Lester, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Arne Johannessen, A. Sinan Unur,
Bartosz Jarzyna, Bart Van Assche, Benjamin Smith, Bram, Branislav Zahradník,
Brian Greenfield, Bruce Gray, Chad Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams,
chromatic, Clemens Wasser, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari
Mannsåker, Dan Book, danielnachun, Dan Jacobson, Dan Kogai, David Cantrell,
David Golden, David Mitchell, E. Choroba, Ed J, Ed Sabol, Elvin Aslanov, Eric
Herman, Felipe Gasper, Ferenc Erki, Firas Khalil Khana, Florian Weimer,
Graham Knop, Håkon Hægland, Harald Jörg, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden,
James E Keenan, James Raspass, jkahrman, Joe McMahon, Johan Vromans, Jonathan
Stowe, Jon Gentle, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Kenichi Ishigaki,
Kenneth Ölwing, Kurt Fitzner, Leon Timmermans, Li Linjie, Loren Merritt,
Lukas Mai, Marcel Telka, Mark Jason Dominus, Mark Shelor, Matthew Horsfall,
Matthew O. Persico, Mattia Barbon, Max Maischein, Mohammad S Anwar, Nathan
Mills, Neil Bowers, Nicholas Clark, Nicolas Mendoza, Nicolas R, Paul Evans,
Paul Marquess, Peter John Acklam, Peter Levine, Philippe
Bruhat (BooK), Reini Urban, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach,
Russ Allbery, Scott Baker, Sevan Janiyan, Sidney Markowitz, Sisyphus, Steve
Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz Konojacki, Tom Stellard, Tony Cook,
Tsuyoshi Watanabe, Unicode Consortium, vsfos, Yves Orton, Zakariyya Mughal,
Zefram, 小鸡.
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 v5.39 on July 20th,
2023. The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half
of 2024.
--
rjbs
on behalf of the Perl Steering Council
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