A bird within the bower of her delight, Quiet upon the nest with her sweet brood Throughout the dark concealment of the night, Anxious to look on them and gather food - No weary task for her, for as at play Blithely she toils to seek her fledglings' good - Before the time, upon the topmost spray Eager awaits the sun and on the East Fixes her wakeful eye till break of day. -- Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers and Barbara Reynolds, "The Divine Comedy", Cantica III: Paradise, Canto XXIII We are delighted to announce the third release candidate of version 24.1, the first maintenance release of version 24 of Perl 5. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.24.1-RC3 from your favourite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.24.1-RC3/ SHA1 digests for this release are: d7143512818c7ff101f112e6429900b9b7705882 perl-5.24.1-RC3.tar.gz 4a6f9d1a6e2e5e77e72ec25df5c298a775cb35b9 perl-5.24.1-RC3.tar.bz2 91a778d75eb952fb3c4246b10844765873461934 perl-5.24.1-RC3.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-5.24.1-RC3. This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before v5.24.1 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.24.1 than for v5.24.2! The final v5.24.1 will ship no sooner than Friday 19th August 2016. Steve Hay