Jefe: I have put many beautiful piñatas in the storeroom, each of them filled with little surprises. El Guapo: Many piñatas? Jefe: Oh yes, many! El Guapo: Would you say I have a *plethora* of piñatas? Jefe: A what? El Guapo: A *plethora*. Jefe: Oh yes, you have a plethora. — The Three Amigos We are happy to announce the first release candidate of Perl v5.36.0. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.36.0-RC1 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at: https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.36.0-RC1/ SHA256 digests for this release are: f70f965b31eb4218ea418dbde8fcd4e15d679adace14d1a234053d268238974a perl-5.36.0-RC1.tar.gz 820345e38d08948b52dd66d458f8e85a3ad4e9541516b12c4a6843a83e856d94 perl-5.36.0-RC1.tar.xz Until the release is available on CPAN, you can find it at https://semiotic.systems/perl-5.36.0-RC1.tar.gz 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/RJBS/perl-5.36.0-RC1/pod/perldelta.pod We expect to release v5.36.0 in the very near future. Please test this release candidate and let us know of any showstoppers. *Known problems:* Right now, you may find Cpanel::JSON::XS failing tests. We're working on it. Thanks! -- rjbs and the rest of the perl steering councilThread Next