nicholas writes "Perl 5.8.6 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-5.8.6-RC1.tar.bz2 (or as .tar.gz ); read what's changed in perldelta.pod.
Please report any problems you encounter, especially bugs introduced since 5.8.5. 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 7 days."
