moved it to the TPF wiki

Taken from here, I found the following:

From a dusty corner of my server's RAID:

Slackware-8.1  perl-5.6.1
Slackware-9.0  perl-5.8.0
Slackware-9.1  perl-5.8.0
Slackware-10.2 perl-5.8.7
Slackware-11.0 perl-5.8.8
Slackware-11.0 perl-5.8.8
Slackware-12.0 perl-5.8.8
Slackware-12.1 perl-5.8.8
Slackware-12.2 perl-5.10.0
Slackware-13.0 perl-5.10.0
Slackware-13.1 perl-5.10.1
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(Note that Slackware skipped the 5.x and 6.x releases, 7.0 directly followed 4.0.)

From ftp.slackware.at: Slackware 3.3 has Perl 5.004, patch 03

From ftp.gwdg.de: Slackware 1.1.2 has Perl Release 4.0 Patchlevel 36

Other historic Slackware versions are 250 km away on some dusty disks, so I can't look right now.

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Release dates from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware#Releases:

version     date
1.0     July 16, 1993
1.1.0     November 5, 1993
1.1.2     February 5, 1994
2.0     July 2, 1994
2.1     October 31, 1994
2.2     March 30, 1995
2.3     May 24, 1995
3.0     November 30, 1995
3.1     June 3, 1996
3.2     February 17, 1997
3.3     June 11, 1997
3.4     October 14, 1997
3.5     June 9, 1998
3.6     October 28, 1998
3.9     May 10, 1999
4.0     May 17, 1999
7.0     October 25, 1999
7.1     June 22, 2000
8.0     July 1, 2001
8.1     June 18, 2002
9.0     March 19, 2003
9.1     September 26, 2003
10.0     June 23, 2004
10.1     February 2, 2005
10.2     September 14, 2005
11.0     October 2, 2006
12.0     July 1, 2007
12.1     May 2, 2008
12.2     December 10, 2008
13.0     August 26, 2009
13.1     May 24, 2010
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Alexander

I guess you are joking ;). It's correct that Solaris ships with two versions, but it's certainly not the latest:
Solaris 10 ships 5.8.4 and 5.6.1 (to be removed).

Solaris 11 express (the preview of Solaris 11 coming out at the end of 2011) was out last month and comes with Perl 5.10.0 and 5.8.4 (repository).

C.

AIX 6.1     5.8.2
AIX 5.3     5.8.2
AIX 5.2     5.8.0
AIX 5.1     5.6.0
AIX 4.3     5.005_03

Solaris 10  5.8.4
Solaris 9   5.6.1
Solaris 8   5.005_03
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HP-UX (11.00, 11.11, 11.23) doesn't ship with Perl by default, AFAIK (so what version you find depends on whoever installed it).

Not completely true. It depends on what (pre)installation was perfomermed and by whom.

Below is a list of the perl that got installed at installation time as system's perl. As I always use my own compiled versions, I do not care to update the preinstalled version, so I may say I think it was installed as such by default:

HP-UX 11.31/IPF	5.8.8
HP-UX 11.23/IPF	5.8.8
HP-UX 11.11/PA	5.005_02
HP-UX 11.00/PA	4.0 PL36
HP-UX 10.20/PA	4.0 PL36

For modern releases, HP has an official depot available for free here. Next to that, the HP Porting Center has recent versions of perl available on a restricted number of OS releases here. I have almost every version of perl available for all of the above HP-UX versions here.


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn

The version of perl for Redhat and CentOS should match for the same OS version as CentOS is compiled from the Redhat sources.

• Cent0S 4.x - 5.8.5
• Cent0S 5.x - 5.8.8
• Fedora 14 - 5.12.2
• Fedora 13 - 5.10.1
• Fedora 12 - 5.10.0
• Fedora 11 - 5.10.0

Update:

RHEL 6 looks to be using 5.10.1

That's a useful table.

It's not a prefect database, but the Distrowatch web site covers the versions of most common applications, including Perl, in most Linux and BSD distros.

For Mandriva... Note that Mandriva as of about Mandrake 10.2 or 2005 ships its system perl without threading. Also note that Mandriva, like many vendors, ships with certain patches so these aren't all vanilla from the main perl source.

* 2008.0 RC2 info found from media, all others from Mandriva wiki. 2008.1 and later have a package list available online. Some earlier versions have links for them, but all appear broken. Info for 2005 was found on the mailing list archive rather than the wiki. Info for 2007.1 was found in the errata (specifically, the rpmdrake errata) on the wiki.

I can probably get some info for some versions of certain unusual distros to you tomorrow, like Puppy, Xandros, and maybe a few others. I also have some other Mandriva/Mandrake media I could find and mount. Today my limited time has run out.

Pardon me for replying to myself, but I have some more versions for the list.

Puppy

OS version	Perl version
5.1.1	5.10.1
4.3.1	5.8.8
4.2.0	5.8.8
4.1.0	5.8.8

Unsurprisingly, Core Linux 2.0 (no relation to Fedora or Fedora Core), being a tiny distribution meant to provide just a boot-strap installation of Linux upon which you can install everything else doesn't provide a perl.

I'm surprised I haven't noticed Debian mentioned. I had 5.0.6 handy, so I can tell you it ships with 5.10.0 as its system perl.

I dug out some older Linux distro CDs I have for some perspective, even though I'm aware you mentioned "recent".

On my (commercial, bought shrink-wrapped, so don't sue me, Darl) Caldera 2.3 disks from 1999, I found 5.5.2 (or as it was know then, 5.005_02).

Red Hat 7.1 (not RHEL, but back before Fedora and RHEL when it was all just Red Hat Linux) from 2001 had 5.6.0 in the ISOs.

I've been using Mandriva as at least one of my Linux distros since version 6.0 first came out. I have enough data to put together another Mandrake/Mandriva table for some of the versions not listed in the one above.

Distribution version	Year	Perl version
Mandrake 7.0	2000	5.5.3 (5.005_03)
Mandrake 8.0 Power Pack	2001	5.6.0
Mandrake 8.2	2001	5.6.1
Mandrake 9.1	2003	5.8.0
Mandrake 10.0	2003	5.8.3
Mandriva 2008.0 (Final)	2008	5.10.0

As usual for Mandriva, the vendor_perl directory for some of the above contains some modules from earlier editions. Perl plays a central role in much of Mandriva's package management and configuration management tools, so they tend to do what is necessary with their system perl to make Perl really stable for their needs. I suggest installing a second perl under /usr/local on Mandriva, BTW, for exactly this reason. It's not a bad idea to leave the system's perl alone on most platforms that ship with one, but on Mandriva you can really hose your system if you mess up, say, urpmi by fiddling with the system perl.

I don't seem to have Xandros or NimbleX any newer than 2007. I have some earlier Ubuntu versions not mentioned yet by others, but they aren't exactly recent either.

distrowatch maintains records of which version of software are shipped with most linux distros, and they have historical records going back a long time, so for example perl versions in Debian:

sid    testing    5.12.4
wheezy        5.12.4
squeeze        5.10.1
lenny        5.10.0
etch        5.8.8
sarge        5.8.4
woody        5.6.1
potato        5.4.5
slink        5.4.4
hamm        5.4.4
bo        5.3.7
rex        5.3.7
buzz    5.2    
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