First Perl 5.12 Release Candidate released

The first release candidate of Perl 5.12 has been released.

If no show stoppers are reported, Perl 5.12 could be released in as little as 7 days. This could be your last chance to make sure your modules aren't accidentally broken by 5.12 and that 5.12 doesn't reveal any bugs in your modules.

Release notes follow.

From	Jesse Vincent
to	perl5-porters@perl.org
Date	Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:43:50 -0400
Subject	Perl 5.12.0-RC1 now available

So she was considering in her own mind (as well as she could, for the hot day made her feel very sleepy and stupid), whether the pleasure of making a daisy-chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies, when suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her.
There was nothing so VERY remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so VERY much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, 'Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!' (when she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it all seemed quite natural); but when the Rabbit actually TOOK A WATCH OUT OF ITS WAISTCOAT-POCKET, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, and fortunately was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit-hole under the hedge.
In another moment down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again.
- Lewis Carroll, /Alice's Adentures in Wonderland/

I've just uploaded the first release candidate for Perl 5.12.0 to PAUSE. Shortly, you'll find it at:

http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.0-RC1/

SHA1 sums for this release are:

d6b0357667582e515335ed89d86bcecb348a07c6  perl-5.12.0-RC1.tar.bz2
d2616e5c193377901cc930290168d08f10b3bd1d  perl-5.12.0-RC1.tar.gz
[download]

The differences from RC0 are relatively small, consisting primarily of documentation updates and a few small regression fixes.

It is imperative that you test this release candidate with any software written in Perl which you use or maintain. If no "showstopper" class bugs are found in the next 7 days, we will release a virtually identical tarball as Perl 5.12.0.

You can find a list of errata - known bugs or modules known to be incompatible with 5.12.0 - at http://dev.perl.org/perl5/errata.html

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Re: First Perl 5.12 Release Candidate released by syphilis (Archbishop) on Mar 30, 2010 at 12:33 UTC
The first release candidate of Perl 5.12 has been released <flippancy>Just as `$array[1]` is the second element of an array, isn't perl-5.12.0-RC1 actually the second release candidate ? </flippancy> Cheers, Rob	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: First Perl 5.12 Release Candidate released by ikegami (Patriarch) on Mar 30, 2010 at 14:59 UTC
RC0 was not considered a release candidate by the release manager. It was more of a release candidate of a release candidate. That's why it was not announced, and that's why it's the first time RC0 was used. (Well, first time that I know of. There was no RC0 for 5.8.9 or 5.10.1.) If you prefer, RC1 is the first public release candidate.	[reply]
Re: First Perl 5.12 Release Candidate released (now at RC4) by ikegami (Patriarch) on Apr 07, 2010 at 06:04 UTC
It's now up to RC4	[reply]
Re^2: First Perl 5.12 Release Candidate released (now at RC4) by wazoox (Prior) on Apr 09, 2010 at 10:47 UTC
Works for me :)	[reply]
One more chance: RC5 by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 10, 2010 at 10:22 UTC
Last night, Jesse released 5.12.0-RC5, hoping to release 5.12 Monday evening. Test your code now, or forever hold your mouth if your code fails with 5.12. ;-)	[reply]


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