I'll formally announce the release of Perl 5.12.0 late tonight or early tomorrow morning once the tarball has had the time to propagate to CPAN mirrors around the planet. The tarballs you should be seeing are: f533687077e2da113b48a6c5e578f4a206fbf173 perl-5.12.0.tar.bz2 5341e60d099fdda71bc33b2a36e417fc0926518f perl-5.12.0.tar.gz Best, JesseThread Next