fyi.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Jesse Vincent</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jesse@fsck.com">jesse@fsck.com</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 10:51 PM<br>
Subject: Perl 5.11.3 now available<br>To: <a href="mailto:perl5-porters@perl.org">perl5-porters@perl.org</a><br><br><br> "Say -- I'm going in a swimming, I am. Don't you wish you could? But of<br>
course you'd druther work—wouldn't you? Course you would!"<br>
<br>
Tom contemplated the boy a bit, and said: "What do you call work?"<br>
<br>
"Why ain't that work?"<br>
<br>
Tom resumed his whitewashing, and answered carelessly: "Well, maybe it<br>
is, and maybe it aint. All I know, is, it suits Tom Sawyer."<br>
<br>
"Oh come, now, you don't mean to let on that you like it?"<br>
<br>
The brush continued to move. "Like it? Well I don't see why I oughtn't<br>
to like it. Does a boy get a chance to whitewash a fence every day?"<br>
<br>
That put the thing in a new light. Ben stopped nibbling his apple. Tom<br>
swept his brush daintily back and forth—stepped back to note the effect<br>
-- added a touch here and there-criticised the effect again -- Ben<br>
watching every move and getting more and more interested, more and more<br>
absorbed. Presently he said: "Say, Tom, let me whitewash a little."<br>
<br>
-- Mark Twain, /The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/<br>
<br>
<br>
It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.3.<br>
<br>
This is the fourth DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to a<br>
stable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changes<br>
in this release in the file "perl5113delta.pod" inside the distribution.<br>
<br>
Perl 5.11.3 is, hopefully, the last release of Perl 5.11.x before<br>
code freeze for Perl 5.12.0. At that point, we will only make changes<br>
which fix regressions from previous released versions of Perl or which<br>
resolve issues we believe would make a stable release of Perl 5.12.0<br>
inadvisable.<br>
<br>
You can (or will shortly be able to) download the 5.11.3 release from:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/%7Ejesse/perl-5.11.3/" target="_blank">http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.11.3/</a><br>
<br>
The release's SHA1 signatures are:<br>
<br>
MD5: 0051020f8ae2a89c9d624e01ed56b02c perl-5.11.3.tar.bz2<br>
SHA1: 7fe87005437002f0b515d983429d0bfba36398ac perl-5.11.3.tar.bz2<br>
<br>
[IMPORTANT: Due to an entirely preventable error on my part, a<br>
corrupted, truncated perl-5.11.3.tar.gz entered the PAUSE. Until<br>
its deletion propagates through CPAN, please be sure you're getting<br>
perl-5.11.3.tar.bz2, not perl-5.11.3.tar.gz. Sorry about that!]<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
This release corresponds to commit 9c3f2640bc in Perl's git repository.<br>
It is tagged as 'v5.11.3'.<br>
<br>
We welcome your feedback on this release. If you discover issues<br>
with Perl 5.11.3, please use the 'perlbug' tool included in this<br>
distribution to report them. If Perl 5.11.3 works well for you, please<br>
use the 'perlthanks' tool included with this distribution to tell the<br>
all-volunteer development team how much you appreciate their work.<br>
<br>
If you write software in Perl, it is particularly important that you test<br>
your software against development releases. While we strive to maintain<br>
source compatibility with prior stable versions of Perl wherever possible,<br>
it is always possible that a well-intentioned change can have unexpected<br>
consequences. If you spot a change in a development version which breaks<br>
your code, it's much more likely that we will be able to fix it before the<br>
next stable release. If you only test your code against stable releases<br>
of Perl, it may not be possible to undo a backwards-incompatible change<br>
which breaks your code.<br>
<br>
Perl 5.11.3 represents approximately one month of development since<br>
Perl 5.11.2 and contains 61407 lines of changes across 396 files<br>
from 40 authors and committers:<br>
<br>
Abigail, Alex Davies, Alexandr Ciornii, Andrew Rodland, Andy<br>
Dougherty, Bram, brian d foy, Chip Salzenberg, Chris Williams, Craig<br>
A. Berry, Daniel Frederick Crisman, David Golden, Dennis Kaarsemaker,<br>
Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Gene Sullivan, Gerard Goossen, H.<br>
Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden,<br>
Jesse Vincent, Jim Cromie, Karl Williamson, Leon Brocard, Max<br>
Maischein, Michael Breen, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Rafael<br>
Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Stepan Kasal, Steve<br>
Hay, Steve Peters, Tim Bunce, Tony Cook, Vincent Pit and Zefram.<br>
<br>
Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN<br>
modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN<br>
community for helping Perl to flourish.<br>
<br>
Notable changes in this release:<br>
<br>
* Perl is shipped with Unicode version 5.2, itself released in October<br>
2009.<br>
<br>
* Perl can now handle every Unicode character property.<br>
<br>
* The experimental 'legacy' pragma, introduced with Perl 5.11.2 has been<br>
removed. Its functionality has been replaced with the 'feature' pragma.<br>
<br>
* Numerous CPAN "toolchain" modules have been updated to what we hope<br>
are the final release versions for Perl 5.12.0.<br>
<br>
* Many crashing bugs or regressions from earlier releases of Perl were fixed<br>
for this release.<br>
<br>
Development versions of Perl are released monthly on or about the 20th<br>
of the month by a monthly "release manager". You can expect following<br>
upcoming releases:<br>
<br>
January 20 - Ricardo Signes<br>
February 20 - Steve Hay<br>
March 20 - Ask Bjørn Hansen<br>
<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
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Jesse Vincent<br>
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