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From:
Dave Rolsky
Date:
December 20, 2011 13:21
Subject:
ANNOUNCE: Perl 5.15.6 is released
Message ID:
alpine.DEB.2.00.1112201517020.18447@urth.org
Ged had thought that as the prentice of a great mage he would enter at once
into the mystery and mastery of power. He would understand the language of the
beasts and the speech of the leaves of the forest, he thought, and sway the
winds with his word, and learn to change himself into any shape he
wished. Maybe he and his master would run together as stags, or fly to Re Albi
over the mountain on the wings of eagles.
But it was not so at all. They wandered, first down into the Vale and then
gradually south and westward around the mountain, given lodging in little
villages or spending the night out in the wilderness, like poor
journeyman-sorcerers, or tinkers, or beggars. They entered no mysterious
domain. Nothing happened. The mage's oaken staff that Ged had watched at first
with eager dread was nothing but a stout staff to walk with. Three days went
by and four days went by and still Ogion had not spoken a single charm in
Ged's hearing, and had not taught him a single name or rune or spell.
-- Ursula K. Leguin, /A Wizard of Earthsea/
We are filled with radiant joy to announce Perl 5.15.6, the seventh
development release of Perl 5.15.
You will soon be able to download Perl 5.15.6 from your favorite CPAN
mirror or find it at:
https://metacpan.org/release/DROLSKY/perl-5.15.6
SHA1 digests for this release are:
b132444e23bc10ed506afdadaede041faa53837b perl-5.15.6.tar.gz
865ac29b8956186c89302068fb6a8f27c2e67f2f perl-5.15.6.tar.bz2
You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in
the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web.
Perl 5.15.6 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl
5.15.5 and contains approximately 48,000 lines of changes across 560 files
from 36 authors.
Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to have
contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.15.6:
Aaron Crane, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Alexandr Ciornii, Brian Fraser, Carl
Hayter, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dave Rolsky, David
Golden, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Father Chrysostomos, James E
Keenan, Johannes Plunien, John Peacock, Karl Williamson, Marc Green, Mark
Dootson, Matthew Horsfall, Nicholas Clark, Paul Evans, Peter Martini,
Peter Scott, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Rodolfo
Carvalho, Shlomi Fish, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, Steve Peters, Thomas
Sibley, Timothe Litt, Tony Cook, Vadim Konovalov, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
generated from version control history. In particular, it does not
include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported
issues to the Perl bug tracker.
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.
For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please
see the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
We expect to release Perl 5.15.7 on January 20th, 2012. The next major
stable release of Perl 5, version 5.16.0, should appear in May 2012.
Cheers,
Dave Rolsky
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