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Perl 5.12.0 Released
By Doug Caverly
Staff Writer
Article Date: 2010-04-20
A new version of Perl has arrived, and it should prove deserving of a very warm welcome. Perl 5.12.0 was a long time coming, and it represents a significantly more advanced offering than what was available before this release.
Jesse Vincent, who's considered the Perl 5 Pumpking and is the president of Best Practical Solutions, wrote in a message to the perl5-porters@perl.org mailing list, "Perl 5.12.0 represents approximately two years of development since version 5.10.0 and contains over 750,000 lines of changes across over 3,000 files from over 200 authors and committers."
One difference relates to Perl conforming to the Unicode standard. The 2038 date problem has been taken into account, developers can now more easily specify package version numbers, and users will be warned by default about employing deprecated features, too.
Then here's another important matter Vincent mentioned: "This release cycle marks a change to a time-based release process. Beginning with version 5.11.0, we make a new development release of Perl available on the 20th of each month. Each spring, we will release a new stable version of Perl. One month later, we will make a minor update to deal with any issues discovered after the initial '.0' release. Future releases in the stable series will follow quarterly."
It looks like the Perl community is doing quite well for itself these days.
About the Author:
Doug is a staff writer for WebProNews. Visit WebProNews for the latest eBusiness news.
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