SHA1 digests for this release are:

  674380237fa5a44447c6531e15bd3590d987e4b4  perl-5.16.2.tar.bz2
  9e20e38e3460ebbac895341fd70a02189d03a490  perl-5.16.2.tar.gz

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.

Perl 5.16.2 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl
5.16.1 and contains approximately 740 lines of changes across 20 files
from 9 authors.

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 the improvements that became Perl 5.16.2:

Andy Dougherty, Craig A. Berry, Darin McBride, Dominic Hargreaves, Karen
Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Peter Martini, Ricardo Signes, Tony Cook.

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.

We expect to release Perl 5.17.6 on November 11, 2012.  The next major
stable release of Perl 5, version 5.18.0, should appear in May 2013.