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perl 5.18.0 is now available!
From:Ricardo Signes
Date: May 18, 2013 13:35
Subject: perl 5.18.0 is now available!
Message ID:20130518133513.GA22266@cancer.codesimply.com
  It is an error to divide people into the living and the dead:
  there are people who are dead-alive, and people who are
  alive-alive. The dead-alive also write, walk, speak, act. But they
  make no mistakes; only machines make no mistakes, and they produce
  only dead things. The alive-alive are constantly in error, in
  search, in questions, in torment.

    -- Yevgeny Zamyatin

We are excited to announce perl v5.18.0, the first stable release of v
+ersion
18 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl v5.18.0 from your favorite CPAN
+ mirror
or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.18.0/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

 a09281aece16772ca676d842c1b24fb9f9f1a409  perl-5.18.0.tar.bz2
 f5a97a9fa4e9d0ef9c4b313c5b778a0e76291ee2  perl-5.18.0.tar.gz

You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" locate
+d in
the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web.

Perl v5.18.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since P
+erl
v5.16.0 and contains approximately 400,000 lines of changes across 2,1
+00
files from 113 authors.

Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to h
+ave
contributed the improvements that became Perl v5.18.0:

Aaron Crane, Aaron Trevena, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Adrian M. Enache, Alan 
+Haggai
Alavi, Alexandr Ciornii, Andrew Tam, Andy Dougherty, Anton Nikishaev,
Aristotle Pagaltzis, Arthur Axel 'fREW' Schmidt, Augustina Blair, Bob 
+Ernst,
Brad Gilbert, Breno G. de Oliveira, Brian Carlson, Brian Fraser, Charl
+ie
Gonzalez, Chip Salzenberg, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Christian Hansen, 
+Colin
Kuskie, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Daniel Dragan, Dani
+el
Perrett, Darin McBride, Dave Rolsky, David Golden, David Leadbeater, D
+avid
Mitchell, David Nicol, Dominic Hargreaves, E. Choroba, Eric Brine, Eva
+n
Miller, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, François Perrad, George
+ Greer,
Goro Fuji, H.Merijn Brand, Herbert Breunung, Hugo van der Sanden, Igor
Zaytsev, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, Jasmine Ahuja, Jerry D. Hedden, J
+ess
Robinson, Jesse Luehrs, Joaquin Ferrero, Joel Berger, John Goodyear, J
+ohn
Peacock, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Karthik Rajagopalan, Kent F
+redric,
Leon Timmermans, Lucas Holt, Lukas Mai, Marcus Holland-Moritz, Markus 
+Jansen,
Martin Hasch, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Michael G Schwern, Mich
+ael
Schroeder, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Niko Tyni, Oleg Nesterov, Patr
+ik
Hägglund, Paul Green, Paul Johnson, Paul Marquess, Peter Martini, Raf
+ael
Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Renee Baecker, Rhesa Rozendaal, Ricardo Si
+gnes,
Robin Barker, Ronald J. Kimball, Ruslan Zakirov, Salvador Fandiño, Sa
+wyer X,
Scott Lanning, Sergey Alekseev, Shawn M Moore, Shirakata Kentaro, Shlo
+mi
Fish, Sisyphus, Smylers, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, Steve Peters, Ste
+ven
Schubiger, Sullivan Beck, Sven Strickroth, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni
+, Thomas
Sibley, Tobias Leich, Tom Wyant, Tony Cook, Vadim Konovalov, Vincent P
+it,
Volker Schatz, Walt Mankowski, Yves Orton, Zefram.

The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
generated from version control history. In particular, it does not inc
+lude
the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported iss
+ues to
the Perl bug tracker.

Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN mo
+dules
included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community f
+or
helping Perl to flourish.

For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, ple
+ase see
the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

We expect to release v5.19.0 on Monday, May 20th, 2013.  The next majo
+r
stable release of Perl 5, version 20, should appear in May 2014.

-- 
rjbs


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