.. and it took only 1 year.
The URL
http://martynov.org/tgz/Data-Dumper-2.12_01.tar.gz
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It passes all tests on 5.8.0 and blead perl and passes all tests on 5.6.1 with exception for some UTF-8 tests. In this regard pure perl version of Data::Dumper is completly broken on 5.6.x and it is probably not worth trying to fix as Unicode support is broken in 5.6.x anyway. Other failing tests are because 5.6.x cannot store Unicode strings in hash keys. If nobody finds any other problems with this release on 5.6.x and 5.8.0 I'll release 2.13 soon.