Strawberry Perl has made a new release for December, 2015: Perl v5.22.1 in both 32- and 64-bit versions:

• Home Page
• Releases / Downloads (MSI, ZIP, Portable, etc.)
• perldelta

Enjoy!

It is not my achievement, just noticed Wendy's posting on fb, and now I am busy building it. Perl 6 is there since a minute to ten pm, GMT.

Perl 6 Download

Larry Wall's tweet

Cheers, Sören

update:

A few resources...
• Perl 6 Introduction
• Learn Perl 6 in Y minutes
• Perl 6 Advent Calendar: Christmas is here.
• Why would you want to use Perl 6? Some answers.
• The Perl6 Gold Rush Began
• Reflecting, celebrating, and looking forward

Modern Perl, 4th Edition has been published. Available in paper and eBook(which is free): https://pragprog.com/book/swperl/modern-perl-fourth-edition. Thanks chromatic

"A Perl expert can solve a problem in a few lines of well-tested code. Now you can unlock these powers for yourself. Modern Perl teaches you how Perl really works. It’s the only book that explains Perl thoroughly, from its philosophical roots to the pragmatic decisions that help you solve real problems—and keep them solved. You’ll understand how the language fits together and discover the secrets used by the global Perl community. This beloved guide is now completely updated for Perl 5.22."

Next version of Perl5 plugin for IntelliJ IDEA has been released:

Features & Improvements:

• Implemented wrapping of comma sequences
• Implemented aligning of arrows in comma sequences
• Implemented identifiers validation (NB: only ASCII allowed atm)
• return is now parsed as a keyword
• Implemented support for method and func constructions as documented in the Method::Signature::Simple
• Implemented parsing for Perl5 native signatures.
• Implemented smartkeys option for here-doc terminator auto-insertion, fixes #589
• Implemented formatting and alignment for ternary operator, fixes #591
• Implemented folding for qw lists, fixes #619
• Simple main:: subs resolution is now optional and configurable via Perl5 settings, fixes #633.
• Code style:
  • Implemented Perl5-specific CodeStyle settings panel, fixes #422
  • Implemented optional quotes automatic insertion/removing, fixes #135. NB: numeric values are not quoted/unquoted.
  • Implemented optional dereference insertion/removing between hash/array indexes, fixes #123.
  • Implemented optional parentheses insertion/removing in statement modifiers.
  • Implemented conversion $var->{key} to $$var{key} and vice versa, fixes #575.
  • Implemented conversion @$array_ref to @{$array_ref} and vice versa (does not affects hash/array elements or slices).
  • Implemented conversion main:: to :: and vice versa, fixes #491
  • Implemented spacing settings for braces and brackets of anon hashes and arrays respectively, fixes #604
  • Implemented spacing options for concatenation and range operators, fixes #630
• Moose and Moo (as far as it's compatible with Moose):
  • Implemented proper use Moose; and use Moo; processing.
  • Implemented Moose/Moo keywords parsing and autocompletion: inner, super, meta.
  • Implemented extends and with statements support.
  • Implemented resolution and refactoring in method modifiers: around, after, before and augment.
  • Implemented parsing, resolution and refactoring for override statement (some annotations works).
  • Implemented parsing, resolution and refactoring for has statement (some annotations works).

Fixes:

• Chained resolution works well if there are spaces, new lines or comments between elements, fixes #525
• Here-doc markers and constants re-factoring in Embedded Perl and Mojo files should now work in-place, fixes #524
• SUPER methods now resolved properly even if invoked on unknown variable, fixes #534
• Here-doc reference should work fine after converting string to here-doc, fixes #541
• Removed redundant indetion of eval and do blocks on re-formatting, fixes #523
• POD is now properly treated as statement (which can, however, be before elsif/else/continue blocks), fixes #522
• Package names auto-completion now works in qw expression, fixes #540
• foreach compound live template now has default values which prevents formatting bugs on inserting, fixes #519
• Recursive inheritance inspection is absolutely redundant, disabled, fixes #517
• Local re-declarations of built-in variables are not marked as unused anymore (like $/), fixes #533
• Removed empty prototype from generated constructor, fixes #537
• Extra close parenthesis and brackets now handled smarter, should improve parser's recovery, fixes #503
• Error block contents now couldn't be re-formatted to avoid unexpected effects, fixes #506
• Fixed possible NPE on file renaming
• Fixed parsing of $$ ^ int expression, fixes #543
• Pragma namespaces are no more being decorated in variables, fixes #502
• Improved argumentless built-ins parsing in leftward calls, fixes #492
• Find usages working properly if entity is being used only in literals, fixes #496
• Improved comma sequence indention, fixes #417
• Fixed formatting for sub definition attributes
• Grep/map/sort blocks and one-statement blocks are not being butified anymore.
• Here-doc with unquoted opener is now properly treated as QQ here-doc.
• Fixed problem with unary plus/minus formatting, fixes #571
• Fixed bug with // formatting, fixes #594
• Fixed problems with indention inside ternar operator, fixes #592
• Fixed possible NPE on re-formatting line with here-doc opener, fixes CAMELCADE-28
• Implemented proper formatting for match and notmatch operators, fixes #629
• Fixed parsing for pow operator, fixes #626
• Fixed quotes typing process, fixes #626

Links

• Plugin on JB repository
• Plugin on GitHub

Bugreports and feature requests are always welcome!

In addition, and perhaps more importantly, the 1.0 production version is still planned for the Christmas 2015 period: "The Rakudo Perl 6 compiler is now officially in beta for the upcoming production release around Christmas 2015.".

Great news, and a very nice Xmas present from the Perl 6 / Rakudo development teams. Thanks and congratulations to them!

I've not seen it posted here yet, but the Perl Advent calendar 2015 is live.

https://twit.tv/shows/triangulation/episodes/225

Sparrow is a console client to run test suites for various web applications. Sparrow consumes plugins written on swat DSL , here is the list, but you can easily create your own ones.

The project is still under active development. In case you are interested in web application test automation and monitoring, welcome for contribution!

The idea is to have a community list of reusable perl plugins to test, monitor applications of any kinds. Like cpan for web testing / monitoring. Take a chance to be a part of making the future.

• Duration: 1 day
• Language: German
• Max attendants: 20
• Costs: 0
• Details: http://frankfurt.pm/2015/11/frankfurter-perl-communitymongers-workshop-2015-am-14-november-2015.html

I just got around to watching last week's episode of Blindspot on the dvr over the weekend, and two of the characters on the show were arguing whether perl or python was a better language for hacking a smartphone webapp... You don't see that on network tv everyday! The FBI tech guru said perl, but the 17 year old hacker preferred python...

A new article on InfoWorld and what we can expect from Perl 6.

Perl 6 : What It Will Bring The article is a bit short, but has links to other things worth reading as well.