After a long and arduous development cycle, Jarkko Hietaniemi has released Perl 5.8.1. http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1.tar.gz Jarkko's announcement on p5p: http://nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/82678 Have fun, -Colin.