jhi writes "The RC1 had one embarassing build failure (in AIX), one new feature (the hash randomisation) made optional instead of default (we are still weighing our options), and the v-strings deprecation message was added. I promise there is not going to be a RC3 tomorrow since I'm leaving for a two-week vacation
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/J/JH/JHI/perl-5.8.1-RC2.tar.gz and the updated perldelta."
