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RHEL 7 (and thereby CentOS 7) is still in support for a while longer and has v5.16. I'd say that's pretty common, especially in business environments.

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Re^2: Out-of-the box Perl version - lowest common denominator
by Fletch (Bishop) on Jan 15, 2021 at 16:26 UTC

    Keep in mind though that end of extended support for RHEL7 is this August (if I'm reading their timeline correctly) and they're already pretty much in the "nothing but critical/important security fixes" phase (unless you have an extended support subscription maybe).

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      G'day Fletch,

      Thanks for this additional information. After a bit of digging around, it looks like RHEL8/CentOS8 will have Perl 5.26.3.

      I'm not sure how the dates affect us. I'll pass this on.

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      — Ken

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Re^2: Out-of-the box Perl version - lowest common denominator
by kcott (Archbishop) on Jan 15, 2021 at 12:13 UTC

    G'day Thomas,

    That's interesting: perhaps we don't need to increase the minimum version. Thanks for the information.

    — Ken

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