Summary of changes from 5.X to 5.LATEST

qhen has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Greets

Is there a single document somewhere which summarizes the improvements/enhancements/changes in Perl from 5.10 to 5.LATEST?

I've been googling around but can't find a nice clean and concise presentation. I'm particularly interested in language changes/improvements and performance enhancements. perlnews.org and perldoc.perl.org/perldelta.html has the info, but it's spread across a myriad of pages.

I'm considering using perlbrew or the like to install the latest 'n greatest (ie, without touching the distro's installed Perl) and enjoy some of the creamy goodness which is available (yes, I'm tired of missing out), whilst also speeding up data crunching a bit - always a good thing.

We're about to refactor a large code base after it's first iteration, and this is a good opportunity to consider doing a major upgrade of Perl and leveraging some of those much yodeled about improvements.

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Re: Summary of changes from 5.10 to 5.LATEST by preaction (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2014 at 06:31 UTC
I wrote a presentation on the topic for Chicago.PM: perldelta - What's changed in Perl from 5.8 to 5.20. I'd like to add "Recursive Regex" (5.10) and the new List::Util enhancements (5.20). View the example code on Github	[reply]
Re^2: Summary of changes from 5.10 to 5.LATEST by qhen (Acolyte) on Jun 20, 2014 at 06:33 UTC
hmm, thanks, qhen clicks link 'n starts reading... Update: Nice! That is precisely what I was looking for. Nice work preaction, how about creating a blog page somewhere where those nice concise highlights are maintained -- especially as new versions of Perl come out?	[reply]
Re^3: Summary of changes from 5.10 to 5.LATEST by preaction (Beadle) on Jun 20, 2014 at 07:28 UTC
That's the idea with the Github repository. Anyone can ask for an improvement, or fork and make their own improvements.	[reply]
Re: Summary of changes from 5.X to 5.LATEST ( perldeltas - every perl*delta in one file with each version properly linkable ) by Anonymous Monk on Jun 20, 2014 at 07:45 UTC
perldeltas ought to still work (click the download code link) ... but its the verbose version (2.2MB) ... you can however trim the headings with Pod::Simple or with XML::Libxml or some such tool :) A little snippet from the headings/TOC p5200-Core Enhancements p5200-Experimental Subroutine signatures p5200-subs now take a prototype attribute p5180-Core Enhancements p5180-New mechanism for experimental features p5180-Hash overhaul p5180-Hash randomization p5160-Core Enhancements p5160-use VERSION p5160-__SUB__ p5160-New and Improved Built-ins p5160-More consistent eval p5160-substr lvalue revamp p5160-Return value of tied p5140-Core Enhancements p5140-Regular Expressions p5140-(?^...) construct signifies default modifiers p5140-/d, /l, /u, and /a modifiers p5140-Non-destructive substitution [download] Get it, try it out, still works :) I just tried it, 2.2M perldeltas from p5004 to p5211	[reply] [d/l]