And I hope when you think of me years down the line You can't find one good thing to say And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out You'd stay the hell out of my way I am drowning, there is no sign of land You are coming down with me, hand in unlovable hand -- "No Children", The Mountain Goats I have come to grips with the availability of perl v5.24.0-RC5! This is the fifth release candidate of Perl v5.24.0. You will soon be able to download perl v5.24.0-RC5 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.24.0-RC5/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 2277cfcbefa89041b8fcc411df7bdee07c816607 perl-5.24.0-RC5.tar.bz2 140993f893723d734653d977322cdef982fe9448 perl-5.24.0-RC5.tar.gz 0241152345b7d4dc424798309b31f7ce11eb34a2 perl-5.24.0-RC5.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. perl-5.24.0's official release will occur on May 9th, 2016, assuming no critical bugs are found between now and then. -- rjbs