Version scheme. Perl has used the following policy since the 5.6 release of Perl: Maintenance branches (ready for production use) are even numbers (5.8, 5.10, 5.12 etc) Sub-branches of maintenance releases (5.12.1, 5.12.2 etc) are mostly just for bug fixes. Development branches are odd numbers (5.9, 5.11, 5.13 etc).
From Rafael, yesterday on p5p: When great or unexpected events fall out upon the stage of this sublunary word-the mind of man, which is an inquisitive kind of a substance, naturally takes a flight, behind the scenes, to see what is the cause and first spring of them-The search was not long in this instance. Sterne, Tristram Shandy, IV, xxvii This is perl 5.6.2. It will be available soon from your favourite CPAN mirror as Its MD5 checksum is 6aa648d086ecda5400de3472dbe1ebfe. Thanks to everyone who helped me to build, test and fix this new maintainance release (and to everyone who provided the fixes for 5.8 that I backported into perl 5.6). The use.perl announcement will follow tomorrow. Enjoy, - rgs Abigail Edit by, remove significant trailing spaces. G: perlsperldoc perldelta NAME perldelta - what's new for perl v5.6.x DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.005 release and +the 5.6.2 release.
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Summary of changes between 5.6.1 and 5.6.2 The 5.6.2 release is aimed at providing only a minimal update to p +erl 5.6.1, which wasn't being compatible with some of the newest compi +lers (most notably gcc 3.x), libraries and operating systems that have appeared since 5.6.1 was released. Note also that perl no longer installs itself as /usr/bin/perl by default if it exists. (see the INSTALL file.) The following modules have been upgraded: Data::Dumper 2.121 DBFile 1.806 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.17 File::Spec 0.86 File::Temp 0.14 Safe 2.10 Test 1.24 Test::Harness 2.30 The following modules were added: Test::Builder 0.17 Test::More 0.47 Test::Simple 0.47 if 0.03.