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May 20, 2012, 4:23 PM
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On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:54 AM, Ricardo Signes <perl.p5p [at] rjbs> wrote: > > All I have is a voice > To undo the folded lie, > The romantic lie in the brain > Of the sensual man-in-the-street > And the lie of Authority > Whose buildings grope the sky: > There is no such thing as the State > And no one exists alone; > Hunger allows no choice > To the citizen or the police; > We must love one another or die. > > -- W.H. Auden, September 1, 1939 > > The Perl 5 development team is gratified to announce the release of > Perl 5.16.0! > > You will soon be able to download Perl 5.16.0 from your favorite CPAN > mirror or find it at: > > https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.16.0/ > > SHA1 digests for this release are: > > 56fb8097ff3e472f7a057848b37cb9ede7662b74 perl-5.16.0.tar.bz2 > d21de2b409d99440047a4e67a61f0a781ea2f66b perl-5.16.0.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. > > Perl 5.16.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl > 5.14.0 and contains approximately 590,000 lines of changes across 2,500 > files from 139 authors. > > Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant > community of users and developers. The following people are known to > have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.16.0: > > Aaron Crane, Abhijit Menon-Sen, Abigail, Alan Haggai Alavi, Alberto > Simões, Alexandr Ciornii, Andreas König, Andy Dougherty, Aristotle > Pagaltzis, Bo Johansson, Bo Lindbergh, Breno G. de Oliveira, brian d > foy, Brian Fraser, Brian Greenfield, Carl Hayter, Chas. Owens, > Chia-liang Kao, Chip Salzenberg, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Christian > Hansen, Christopher J. Madsen, chromatic, Claes Jacobsson, Claudio > Ramirez, Craig A. Berry, Damian Conway, Daniel Kahn Gillmor, Darin > McBride, Dave Rolsky, David Cantrell, David Golden, David Leadbeater, > David Mitchell, Dee Newcum, Dennis Kaarsemaker, Dominic Hargreaves, > Douglas Christopher Wilson, Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Florian > Ragwitz, Frederic Briere, George Greer, Gerard Goossen, Gisle Aas, > H.Merijn Brand, Hojung Youn, Ian Goodacre, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, > Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Luehrs, Jesse Vincent, Jilles Tjoelker, Jim > Cromie, Jim Meyering, Joel Berger, Johan Vromans, Johannes Plunien, John > Hawkinson, John P. Linderman, John Peacock, Joshua ben Jore, Juerd > Waalboer, Karl Williamson, Karthik Rajagopalan, Keith Thompson, Kevin J. > Woolley, Kevin Ryde, Laurent Dami, Leo Lapworth, Leon Brocard, Leon > Timmermans, Louis Strous, Lukas Mai, Marc Green, Marcel Grünauer, Mark > A. Stratman, Mark Dootson, Mark Jason Dominus, Martin Hasch, Matthew > Horsfall, Max Maischein, Michael G Schwern, Michael Witten, Mike > Sheldrake, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Niko Tyni, Nuno Carvalho, Pau > Amma, Paul Evans, Paul Green, Paul Johnson, Perlover, Peter John Acklam, > Peter Martini, Peter Scott, Phil Monsen, Pino Toscano, Rafael > Garcia-Suarez, Rainer Tammer, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Robin Barker, > Rodolfo Carvalho, Salvador Fandiño, Sam Kimbrel, Samuel Thibault, Shawn > M Moore, Shigeya Suzuki, Shirakata Kentaro, Shlomi Fish, Sisyphus, > Slaven Rezic, Spiros Denaxas, Steffen Müller, Steffen Schwigon, Stephen > Bennett, Stephen Oberholtzer, Stevan Little, Steve Hay, Steve Peters, > Thomas Sibley, Thorsten Glaser, Timothe Litt, Todd Rinaldo, Tom > Christiansen, Tom Hukins, Tony Cook, Vadim Konovalov, Vincent Pit, > Vladimir Timofeev, Walt Mankowski, Yves Orton, Zefram, Zsbán Ambrus, > Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason. > > 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 Perl 5.16.1 on or around June 20, 2012, addressing > significant bugs found after this release. The 5.17 development branch > will open shortly, and a 5.17.0 release will follow within the month, > with regular monthly releases following on the 20th of each month. The > next major stable release of Perl 5, version 5.18.0, should appear in > May 2013. > > -- > rjbs Congratulations :-) Leon
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