Perl 5.24.3-RC1 is now available!

  'And now the STORM-BLAST came, and he
  Was tyrannous and strong:
  He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
  And chased us south along.

  With sloping masts and dipping prow,
  As who pursued with yell and blow
  Still treads the shadow of his foe,
  And forward bends his head,
  The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast,
  And southward aye we fled.

  And now there came both mist and snow,
  And it grew wondrous cold:
  And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
  As green as emerald.

  And through the drifts the snowy clifts
  Did send a dismal sheen:
  Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—-
  The ice was all between.

  The ice was here, the ice was there,
  The ice was all around:
  It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
  Like noises in a swound!

    -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

We are delighted to announce the first release candidate of version
24.3, the third maintenance release of version 24 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.24.3-RC1 from your favourite
CPAN mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.24.3-RC1/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

  c1fc4059e2d4ac0b2456fd8339e59db5a5a6200b  perl-5.24.3-RC1.tar.gz
  9584c6d986aeaa7db619b29b61f59843b76bda86  perl-5.24.3-RC1.tar.bz2
  42893caa06c4675f685fe7e8ed4ac8f8eccc6d19  perl-5.24.3-RC1.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-5.24.3-RC1.
This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
v5.24.3 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.24.3 than
for v5.24.4!

The final v5.24.3 is expected to ship within the next fortnight.

Steve Hay

• Perl 5.24.3-RC1 is now available! by Steve Hay via perl5-porters