ActiveState has released PerlDevKit 2.0 and ActivePerl Build 618, based on perl 5.6.
PDK 2.0 comes with Perl Debugger (now with remote debugging), PerlApp (creates self-running, and now smaller, executables), the new PerlSvc to turn scripts into Windows NT services, PerlCtl to create ActiveX controls, and more. A license is 125 USD.
ActivePerl now includes updated documentation, improved PerlScript support, various Win32::OLE bug fixes, along with libnet 1.06 and Digest::MD5 2.11 and the updated versions of URI, LWP, Compress::Zlib and libwin32.