Announcing release of Perl 5.33.1

  If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil
  deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and
  destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart
  of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own
  heart?

    -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 (1973)


We are relieved to announce version 33.1, the second development release of
version 33 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.33.1 from your favorite CPAN mirror
or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/ETHER/perl-5.33.1/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

  b6ae80478000efdb2575f4c72a358daf6401a9d0  perl-5.33.1.tar.gz
  2d5111b9b32c7577ea82867ca0055b1fc7e561ae  perl-5.33.1.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 at

https://metacpan.org/pod/release/ETHER/perl-5.33.1/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.33.1 represents approximately 5 weeks of development since Perl
5.33.0 and contains approximately 37,000 lines of changes across 740 files
from 34 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 11,000 lines of changes to 290 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to have
contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.33.1:

Adam Hartley, Christian Walde (Mithaldu), Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan
Book, David Mitchell, E. Choroba, Graham Knop, Graham Ollis, Hauke D, Ivan
Baidakou, James E Keenan, John Lightsey, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson,
Leon Timmermans, Nicolas R., Paul Evans, Petr Písař, raiph, Renee Baecker,
Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Romano, Ryan Voots, Samuel Thibault, Sawyer
X, Scott Baker, Sizhe Zhao, Thibault Duponchelle, Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz
Konojacki, Tom Stellard, Tony Cook, vividsnow.

The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include
the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to
the Perl bug tracker.

Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
helping Perl to flourish.

For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please
see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

We expect to release version 5.33.2 on 20 September, 2020. The next major
stable release of Perl 5, version 34.0, should appear in May 2021.


Use it together, use it in peace,
Karen Etheridge

• Announcing release of Perl 5.33.1 by Karen Etheridge
• Re: Announcing release of Perl 5.33.1 by Shlomi Fish
• Re: Announcing release of Perl 5.33.1 by Christian Walde
• Re: Announcing release of Perl 5.33.1 by Dan Book