The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the release of perl 5.9.2, the third development release of perl 5.9, incorporating developments towards the next major stable version of perl, perl 5.10.
It is available from the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network as
ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.9.2.tar.gz
Its MD5 checksum is a98df18c362355172c86c2f6cb1be9a2 and its size is
12450287 bytes.
The perl592delta document outlines the changes between perl 5.9.1 and perl 5.9.2. It can be found at:
http://search.cpan.org/user/rgarcia/perl-5.9.2/pod/perl592delta.pod
(The changes between perl 5.8.0 and perl 5.9.1 are summarized in the perl590delta.pod and perl591delta.pod documents.)
Please note that this is a development version, and not a stable release. It is provided for testing and experimentation purposes only, and must NOT be used in production environments.
This is a source code release, not a binary release. You will need a C development environment to build the sources. To build and install Perl, and to find out how to report problems, please read the INSTALL file, and any relevant README. file.
As specified in the licences for Perl (see the files named Artistic or Copying), THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.