Perl 5.22.2-RC1 is now available!

This annual ball was quite a magnificent affair.  It was given some time
before Shrovetide to celebrate the birthday of a famous illustrator
whose pencil had immortalized, in the style of Gavarni, the extravagant
carnival parade down La Courtille.  As such, the ball was an altogether
merrier, noisier and more Bohemian occasion than was usual for a masked
ball.  Many artists had arranged to meet there; they arrived with an
entourage of models and pupils, who, by midnight, had become quite
boisterous.
Raoul climbed the grand staircase at five minutes to midnight.  He did
not linger to admire the many-coloured costumes on display all the way
up the marble steps of one of the most luxurious settings in the world;
nor did he allow himself to be drawn into the facetious conversation of
masked guests.  He simply ignored all the jesting remarks, and shook off
the attentions of several all too merry couples.
Crossing the big crush-room and escaping from the dancers' farandole
that had encircled him awhile, he at last entered the salon mentioned by
Christine in her letter.  The small room was crammed with people either
on their way to supper at the restaurant in the Rotunda or back from
raising a glass of champagne.
In the midst of the gay and lively hubbub, Raoul thought that, for their
mysterious assignation, Christine must have preferred this crowd to some
lonely corner.
He leaned against a door-jamb and waited.  He did not have to wait long;
a black domino passed him and deftly touched his hand.  He understood
that it was Christine and followed her.
'Is that you, Christine?' he murmured, barely moving his slips.
The black domino promptly looked back and raised her finger to her lips,
no doubt to caution him against uttering her name again.  Raoul followed
on in silence.

    -- Gaston Leroux, trans. Mireille Ribière,
       "The Phantom of the Opera"

We are delighted to announce the first release candidate of version
22.2, the second maintenance release of version 22 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.22.2-RC1 from your favourite
CPAN mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.22.2-RC1/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

  3d33b59d7f7b4a80571ebb7f463f192c571147f9  perl-5.22.2-RC1.tar.gz
  a3779f2d1ee20bf8e5100cb3bbfed01a1b6c8f7a  perl-5.22.2-RC1.tar.bz2
  e43d4c399b05a6a8fdc82b9c792e4b983fa6e7f1  perl-5.22.2-RC1.tar.xz

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.

***Please, please, please*** test your code against perl-5.22.2-RC1.
This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
v5.22.2 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.22.2 than
for v5.22.3!

The final v5.22.2 will ship no sooner than Sunday 24th April, a
fortnight from today.

Steve Hay

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• Re: Perl 5.22.2-RC1 is now available! by Achim Gratz