Perl 5.11.1 now available

  Milo had been caught red-handed in the act of plundering his countrymen,
  and, as a result, his stock had never been higher. He proved good as his
  word when a rawboned major from Minnesota curled his lip in rebellious
  disavowal and demanded his share of the syndicate Milo kept saying
  everybody owned. Milo met the challenge by writing the words "A Share"
  on the nearest scrap of paper and handing it away with a virtuous disdain
  that won the envy and admiration of almost everyone who knew him. His
  glory was at a peak, and Colonel Cathcart, who knew and admired his
  war record, was astonished by the deferential humility with which Mil
  presented himself at Group Headquarters and made his fantastic appeal
  for more hazardous assignment.
                                    - Joseph Heller, /Catch-22/

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.11.1.

This is the second DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.11.x series leading to a
stable release of Perl 5.12.0. You can find a list of high-profile changes
in this release in the file "perl5111delta.pod" inside the distribution.

You can (or will shortly be able to) download the 5.11.1 release from:
	
	http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.11.1/

The release's SHA1 signatures are:

	4eb796d28849ea21466166cea0b580d98163564f  perl-5.11.1.tar.bz2
	aa4ca3b0cffa1bbcbcdb09e81c6ece759112ce14  perl-5.11.1.tar.gz

We welcome your feedback on this release. If you discover issues
with Perl 5.11.1, please use the 'perlbug' tool included in this
distribution to report them. If Perl 5.11.1 works well for you, please
use the 'perlthanks' tool included with this distribution to tell the
all-volunteer development team how much you appreciate their work.

If you write software in Perl, it is particularly important that you test
your software against development releases. While we strive to maintain
source compatibility with prior stable versions of Perl wherever possible,
it is always possible that a well-intentioned change can have unexpected
consequences. If you spot a change in a development version which breaks
your code, it's much more likely that we will be able to fix it before the
next stable release. If you only test your code against stable releases
of Perl, it may not be possible to undo a backwards-incompatible change
which breaks your code.

In the release announcement for 5.11.0, I asked readers to test the
new version of Perl with their in-house applications and CPAN modules.
Among other things, that testing turned up previously undiscovered issues
in a change to Perl's Regular Expression semantics which we were able
to defang in time for 5.11.1.

Notable changes in this release:

*  Package declarations can now include a version number. 

*  suidperl is no longer available as part of perl. If your code depends
   on suidperl, you need to find an alternate solution. (This was actually
   true as of 5.11.0)

*  Over the years a number of language constructs and interpreter features
   have been deprecated and will eventually be removed. As of this
   release, Perl enables deprecation warnings by default.

*  Perl's tests are now aware of (and work around) a bug in Mac OS X
   10.6 locales.

*  Support for Windows 95, 98, ME and NT4 has officially ended. 

This release represents approximately 3 weeks development since Perl
5.11.0, containing 22,000 lines of changes across 396 files from 26
authors and committers:

Abigail, Alex Vandiver, brian d foy, Chris Williams, Craig A. Berry,
David Fifield, David Golden, demerphq, Eric Brine, Geoffrey T. Dairiki,
George Greer, H.Merijn Brand, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Vincent,
Josh ben Jore, Max Maischein, Nicholas Clark, Rafael Garcia-Suarez,
Simon Schubert, Sisyphus, Smylers, Steve Hay, Steve Peters, Vincent Pit
and Yves Orton.

Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN
community for helping Perl to flourish.

Yves Orton will release Perl 5.11.2 on November 20, 2009.
Leon Brocard will release Perl 5.11.3 on December 20, 2009.
Ricardo Signes will release Perl 5.11.4 on January 20, 2010.

• Perl 5.11.1 now available by Jesse Vincent
• re: Perl 5.11.1 now available by Darren Duncan