At the start of any project, I'm programming primarily to please myself. (The two chief virtues in a programmer are laziness and impatience.) After a while somebody looks over my shoulder and says, "That's neat. It'd be neater if it did such-and-so." So the thing gets neater. Pretty soon (a year or two) I have an rn, a warp, a patch, or a perl. One of these years I'll have a metaconfig. I then say to myself, "I don't want my life's work to die when this computer is scrapped, so I should let some other people use this. If I ask my company to sell this, it'll never see the light of day, and nobody would pay much for it anyway. If I sell it myself, I'll be in trouble with my company, to whom I signed my life away when I was hired. If I give it away, I can pretend it was worthless in the first place, so my company won't care. In any event, it's easier to ask forgiveness than permission." So a freely distributable program is born. -- Larry Wall, January 12, 1988 <992@devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV> On behalf of perl5-porters It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.14.0. SHA-1 signatures for this release: da5e991f9d4a6728eccfc190c5ddbed3c02a94fe perl-5.14.0.tar.bz2 7e2aab2101b087f6f2b9405b626a3f064c23693d perl-5.14.0.tar.gz You can download this release from your nearest CPAN mirror or from: http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.14.0/ Some notable changes in this release include: * Unicode 6.0 support, along with many, many improvements to our Unicode-related features * Improved support for IPv6 * Significantly easier autoconfiguration of the CPAN client * A new /r flag which makes s/// substitutions non-destructive * New regular expression flags to control whether matched strings should be treated as ASCII or Unicode * New "package Foo { }" syntax * Uses less memory and CPU than previous releases Perl 5.14.0 includes numerous other new features, optimizations and bugfixes. You can find a complete list of these changes on the web at: http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.14.0/pod/perldelta.pod Based on extensive testing over the past 3 months, we believe that Perl 5.14.0 is ready for production deployments. However, you should never blindly trust any software vendor. It is imperative that you test new software before deploying it in production. If you discover issues with this release, please use the "perlbug" tool to report them. We will release Perl 5.14.1 in approximately one month. This patch release will include corrections for any significant issues discovered in this release but will not include new features or any incompatible changes. Perl 5.16 will be released in the spring of 2012. If you'd like to help shape Perl 5's future, please join us on the perl5-porters mailing list. Perl 5.14.0 represents one year of development since Perl 5.12.0 and contains nearly 550,000 lines of changes across nearly 3,000 files from 150 authors and committers. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed to this release: Aaron Crane, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Abigail, ?var Arnfj?r? Bjarmason, Alastair Douglas, Alexander Alekseev, Alexander Hartmaier, Alexandr Ciornii, Alex Davies, Alex Vandiver, Ali Polatel, Allen Smith, Andreas K?nig, Andrew Rodland, Andy Armstrong, Andy Dougherty, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Arkturuz, Arvan, A. Sinan Unur, Ben Morrow, Bo Lindbergh, Boris Ratner, Brad Gilbert, Bram, brian d foy, Brian Phillips, Casey West, Charles Bailey, Chas. Owens, Chip Salzenberg, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, chromatic, Craig A. Berry, Curtis Jewell, Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?ker, Dan Dascalescu, Dave Rolsky, David Caldwell, David Cantrell, David Golden, David Leadbeater, David Mitchell, David Wheeler, Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Fingle Nark, Florian Ragwitz, Frank Wiegand, Franz Fasching, Gene Sullivan, George Greer, Gerard Goossen, Gisle Aas, Goro Fuji, Grant McLean, gregor herrmann, H.Merijn Brand, Hongwen Qiu, Hugo van der Sanden, Ian Goodacre, James E Keenan, James Mastros, Jan Dubois, Jay Hannah, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Vincent, Jim Cromie, Jirka Hru?ka, John Peacock, Joshua ben Jore, Joshua Pritikin, Karl Williamson, Kevin Ryde, kmx, Lars D? ??, Larwan Berke, Leon Brocard, Leon Timmermans, Lubomir Rintel, Lukas Mai, Maik Hentsche, Marty Pauley, Marvin Humphrey, Matt Johnson, Matt S Trout, Max Maischein, Michael Breen, Michael Fig, Michael G Schwern, Michael Parker, Michael Stevens, Michael Witten, Mike Kelly, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Nick Cleaton, Nick Johnston, Nicolas Kaiser, Niko Tyni, Noirin Shirley, Nuno Carvalho, Paul Evans, Paul Green, Paul Johnson, Paul Marquess, Peter J. Holzer, Peter John Acklam, Peter Martini, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Piotr Fusik, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Rainer Tammer, Reini Urban, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard M?hn, Richard Soderberg, Rob Hoelz, Robin Barker, Ruslan Zakirov, Salvador Fandi?o, Salvador Ortiz Garcia, Shlomi Fish, Sinan Unur, Sisyphus, Slaven Rezic, Steffen M?ller, Steve Hay, Steven Schubiger, Steve Peters, Sullivan Beck, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Tim Bunce, Todd Rinaldo, Tom Christiansen, Tom Hukins, Tony Cook, Tye McQueen, Vadim Konovalov, Vernon Lyon, Vincent Pit, Walt Mankowski, Wolfram Humann, Yves Orton, Zefram, and Zsb?n Ambrus. This list is woefully incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it doesn't include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues in previous releases that helped make Perl 5.14.0 better. For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the release tarball. Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl 5's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for their contributions. Best, Jesse Vincent
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Re: Perl 5.14 is out
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Re: Perl 5.14 is out
by tchrist (Pilgrim) on May 16, 2011 at 01:11 UTC | |
by ambrus (Abbot) on May 16, 2011 at 16:46 UTC | |
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