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From:
Karen Etheridge
Date:
October 24, 2016 04:20
Subject:
Re: Perl 5.24.1-RC4 is now available!
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> The final v5.24.1 will ship no sooner than Wednesday 19th October 2016.
No, really, what's the real date? :)
On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 2:50 PM, Steve Hay via perl5-porters <
perl5-porters@perl.org> wrote:
> Before the gates there sat
> On either side a formidable shape;
> The one seemed woman to the waste, and fair,
> But ended foul in many a scaly fold,
> Voluminous and vast -- a serpent armed
> With mortal sting; about her middle round
> A cry of hell hounds never ceasing barked
> With wide Cerberean mouths full loud, and rung
> A hideous peal; yet, when they list, would creep,
> If aught disturbed their noise, into her womb,
> And kennel there; yet there still barked and howled
> Within unseen. Far less abhorred than these
> Vexed Scylla, bathing in the sea that parts
> Calabria from the hoarse Trinacrian shore;
> Nor uglier follow the night-hag, when, called
> In secret, riding through the air she comes,
> Lured with the smell of infant blood, to dance
> With Lapland witches, while the labouring moon
> Eclipses at their charms. The other shape --
> If shape it might be called that shape had none
> Distinguishable in member, joint, or limb;
> Or substance might be called that shadow seemed,
> For each seemed either -- black it stood as night,
> Fierce as ten Furies, terrible as hell,
> And shook a dreadful dart: what seemed his head
> The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
> Satan was now at hand, and from his seat
> The monster moving onward came as fast
> With horrid strides; hell trembled as he strode.
>
> -- John Milton, ed. Gordon Campbell, "Paradise Lost", Book II
>
> We are relieved to announce the fourth 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-RC4 from your favourite
> CPAN mirror or find it at:
>
> https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.24.1-RC4/
>
> SHA1 digests for this release are:
>
> cdb8d8e735c8709a761e49f6a8e3bfa43db037ee perl-5.24.1-RC4.tar.gz
> 1c11996dba56f9eb9376b925417913c4b0a7aea5 perl-5.24.1-RC4.tar.bz2
> 7d557267cfbc6880dd9c6d20f4e4ad739196bba7 perl-5.24.1-RC4.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-RC4.
> 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 Wednesday 19th October 2016.
>
> Steve Hay
>
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