For better waters heading with the wind My ship of genius now shakes out her sail And leaves that ocean of despair behind; For to the second realm I tune my tale, Where human spirits purge themselves, and train To leap up into joy celestial. Now from the grave wake poetry again, O sacred Muses I have served so long! Now let Calliope uplift her strain And lift my voice up on the mighty song That smote the miserable Magpies nine Out of all hope of pardon for their wrong! -- Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica II: Purgatory, Canto I We are delighted to announce the second release candidate of version 22.3, the third maintenance release of version 22 of Perl 5. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.22.3-RC2 from your favourite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.22.3-RC2/ SHA1 digests for this release are: c6b7f9b8f4ac27ad9f4d76342be3638a831f66bc perl-5.22.3-RC2.tar.gz 24f3b361b370ecd2cadb5d243dd5319e47eb0f7e perl-5.22.3-RC2.tar.bz2 51717896458eb2700417ba650eb81e7117bdd683 perl-5.22.3-RC2.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-5.22.3-RC2. This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before v5.22.3 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.22.3 than for v5.22.4! The final v5.22.3 is expected to ship within the next week. Steve Hay