On the top of the Crumpetty Tree The Quangle Wangle sat, But his face you could not see, On account of his Beaver Hat. For his Hat was a hundred and two feet wide, With ribbons and bibbons on every side, And bells, and buttons, and loops, and lace, So that nobody ever could see the face Of the Quangle Wangle Quee. -- Edward Lear, ed. Vivien Noakes, "The Complete Nonsense and Other Verse": The Quangle Wangle's Hat We are delighted to announce the first release candidate of version 28.2, the second maintenance release of version 28 of Perl 5. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.28.2-RC1 from your favourite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.28.2-RC1/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 0ee51795efa32235f9202d936bb07b3044a2f835 perl-5.28.2-RC1.tar.gz c28b2e8d97e92264ff144996afdbf2571b7e406d perl-5.28.2-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-5.28.2-RC1. This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before v5.28.2 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.28.2 than for v5.28.3! The final v5.28.2 is expected to ship on April 19th. Steve HayThread Next