Gurusamy Sarathy released the second trial version of perl v5.6.1 today. He notes that if this release passes muster, he will update perldelta.pod and send the release to CPAN as v5.6.1. "Owing to the large number of patches, testing is very very important. So give it all you've got on all your favourite platforms!"
If it is not yet on CPAN in your area, you can get it from http://public.activestate.com/gsar/perl-5.6.1-TRIAL2.tar.gz.
