The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the release of perl 5.9.3, the fourth 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-5.9.3.tar.gz
Its MD5 checksum is 8ba92aeee7b34206c45f8eec759d1859 and its size is 13796779 bytes.
The perl593delta document outlines the changes between perl 5.9.2 and perl 5.9.3. It can be found at:
http://search.cpan.org/user/rgarcia/perl-5.9.3/pod/perl593delta.pod
The perltodo document contains a small release roadmap for perl 5.10. It is available at:
http://search.cpan.org/user/rgarcia/perl-5.9.3/pod/perltodo.pod
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.<platform> file.
As specified in the licences for Perl (see the files named Artistic or Copying), THIS PACKAGE IS PROVIDED WITH ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
Re:there is also perl-5.8.8 release in CPAN
nicholas on 2006-02-01T18:29:26
But it won't have reached many of the mirrors yet. Releases are usually announced 24 to 48 hours after they were uploaded, to give them time to propagate to active mirrors.