Perl 5.22.3-RC2 is now available!

  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

• Perl 5.22.3-RC2 is now available! by Steve Hay via perl5-porters