We are happy to announce v5.21.1, the 2nd development release of version 21 of Perl 5.
You will soon be able to download Perl 5.21.1 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:
https://metacpan.org/release/WOLFSAGE/perl-5.21.1/
SHA1 digests for this release are:
63072e7d056d091709a55ee1da4de2206a24c9ee perl-5.21.1.tar.gz
aa90cbfaf512794233556eb4247d76ed0cccd546 perl-5.21.1.tar.bz2
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 5.21.1 represents approximately 3 weeks of development since Perl 5.21.0 and contains approximately 240,000 lines of changes across 680 files from 37 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 150,000 lines of changes to 420 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
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 5.21.1:
Alex Solovey, Andrew Fresh, Andy Dougherty, Brian Fraser, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Daniel Dragan, Darin McBride, David Mitchell, Doug Bell, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, kafka, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Michael Bunk, Nicholas Clark, Niels Thykier, Norman Koch, Peter John Acklam, Pierre Bogossian, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Rob Hoelz, Shlomi Fish, Smylers, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, Sullivan Beck, Thomas Sibley, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.
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 F
We expect to release version v5.21.2 on July 20, 2014. The next major stable release of Perl 5, version 22.0, should appear in May 2015.
It's worth noting that there are a few known issues with this build.
Specifically, you may experience test failures for Socket on: Midnight BSD Solaris. And assorted test failures on HP-UX. These will be addressed in a future release.