Nicholas writes "Perl 5.8.3 Release Candidate 1 has been uploaded to CPAN. This is a regular
maintenance release for perl 5.8.x, providing bug fixes and integrating module
updates from CPAN. Download the source from
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.3-RC1.tar.bz2
(or as .tar.gz
); read what's changed in
perldelta.pod.
Please report any problems you encounter, especially bugs introduced since
5.8.2.
Whenever possible, please report bugs using the perlbug
utility.
If the build or regression tests fail, make nok
. If the build
fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org
directly.
All being well this will be the only release candidate, and the release will be in about 10 days."