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Perl 5.11.1 Enters The Scene
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2009-10-27
The march of progress continued last week with the release of Perl 5.11.1. This release - which, it should stressed, is a development release - incorporates some significant changes, and Perl programmers have been encouraged to give the whole thing a test drive when possible.
Let's start with some semi-additions that set Perl 5.11.1 apart from what was already out there. Jesse Vincent wrote on use Perl, "Package declarations can now include a version number." Also, "Perl's tests are now aware of (and work around) a bug in Mac OS X 10.6 locales."
Then there's a lot of stuff that might fall under an "out with the old" heading. Vincent continued, "suidperl is no longer available as part of perl." Furthermore, presumably due to the introduction of Windows 7, "Support for Windows 95, 98, ME and NT4 has officially ended."
And finally, "Over the years a number of language constructs and interpreter features have been deprecated and will eventually be removed. As of this release, Perl enables deprecation warnings by default."
This collection of announcements can be taken as solid evidence that the one-per-month Perl release schedule is working out well so far. Just be sure to test your software against Perl 5.11.1 so that any problems can be reported and fixed as soon as possible.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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