[VPM] Perl 5.9.5 has been released

[Darren Duncan]

At 12:34 PM -0700 7/9/07, Peter Scott wrote:
>  >Does this mean, that perl 6 is going to be released soon?....how long?
>
>Not in and of itself.  Perl 5 will have a 5.10, 5.12, etc regardless
>of when Perl 6 comes out.
>
>BTW, I am still under the impression that 5.<odd number> releases are
>development releases, and 5.<even number> releases are the stable
>versions.  Unless that policy got changed without my noticing, I
>probably wouldn't use 5.9.anything, certainly not for a customer.

That is all true, 5.9.x and 5.11.x et al are experimental releases 
and shouldn't be used in production.  However, part of why I made 
this announcement is that I now consider 5.9.5 to be stable enough to 
use on my own development machine.  The 5.9.x series is feature 
complete and has no test failures, and has already been tested 
against much of CPAN; now it is just being further stabilized. -- 
Darren Duncan