Maybe not really news, but I was looking for any schedule for
ActivePerl going 5.8 at their
site, and found this in their mailing list archive:
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Message/activeperl/1302925 - basically it says nothing production level until October, and that is just a guess too.
Seems we will have to wait a while for this to come, but that was about what I was expected. There will however be betas before then, if anyone really wants to play with it. :)
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