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From:
Abigail
Date:
May 13, 2016 12:09
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.25.1 on May 20th
Message ID:
20160513121039.GB3689@almanda.fritz.box
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 05:49:11PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org> [2016-05-12T17:46:47]
> > The new pumpking wrote:
> > > If you have any objections, please let me/us know. Otherwise, 5.25.1
> > > will be out in a week and a day on the 20th.
> > 
> > I have none.  But I do wonder why 5.25.0 was released at all, with no
> > changes from 5.24 except the version number.  Would anyone care to
> > elaborate?
> 
> It's What We've Usually Doneā„¢
> 


Most of the time, the first release of a dev cycle was done shortly
after the major release, but there have been exceptions.

Perlhist tells use the release dates:

   Major release             1st dev release           Days between
   5.12.0     Apr 12         5.13.0   Apr 20                8
   5.14.0     May 14         5.15.0   Jun 20               37
   5.16.0     May 20         5.17.0   May 26                6
   5.18.0     May 18         5.19.0   May 20                2
   5.20.0     May 27         5.21.0   May 27                0
   5.22.0     Jun  1         5.23.0   Jun 20               19
   5.24.0     May  9         5.25.0   May  9                0



Abigail

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