perl v5.38.0 is now available

rjbs has released 5.38:

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do in this life is to let himself die.

— Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

We are happy to announce version 38.0, the first stable release of version 38 of Perl 5. In other words: v5.38.0 has been released, and this is good!

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.38.0 from the CPAN at:

https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.38.0/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

5c4dea06509959fedcccaada8d129518487399b7  perl-5.38.0.tar.gz
2e7b1c56c1f795e8173c83a52e91218ba05ee72c  perl-5.38.0.tar.xz
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The full announcement is at https://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2023/07/msg266602.html.

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Re: perl v5.38.0 is now available by Arunbear (Prior) on Jul 03, 2023 at 10:05 UTC
A link to the changes for this version: https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.38.0/changes	[reply]
Re^2: perl v5.38.0 is now available by eyepopslikeamosquito (Archbishop) on Jul 03, 2023 at 10:27 UTC
Anyone know if Nicholas Clark's hash performance improvements described here made it in to perl v5.38.0? Update: Oops, looks like they made it into perl v5.36.0 according to perl v5.36.0 changes (Performance Enhancements section) -- see also this github perldelta entry for new key behaviour for large hashes.	[reply]
Re^3: perl v5.38.0 is now available by hv (Prior) on Jul 03, 2023 at 11:39 UTC
The perldelta github link is for an unrelated improvement, try perldelta entry for the new key behaviour for large hashes instead.	[reply]
Re: perl v5.38.0 is now available by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 03, 2023 at 09:47 UTC
Goodbye Ultrix, my first Unix programming experience :P	[reply]
Re: perl v5.38.0 is now available by haj (Vicar) on Jul 03, 2023 at 21:38 UTC
That's good news! Here's somewhat related news: For those of you who are using Emacs to edit their Perl sources: I just pushed a version of cperl-mode.el to the repository which supports the new keywords and syntax of Perl 5.36 (try/catch/finally, defer, subroutine signatures) and 5.38 (class, method, field, ADJUST). If you have Emacs 27 or newer, you can directly download and use it from the Emacs repository. If you want to use it with Emacs 26, please speak up, backporting should be doable. Meanwhile, I'll check whether it is possible to get cperl-mode.el into a "dual" mode so that it can be installed via ELPA. Feedback is appreciated: I know that different people write Perl in very different styles, and there are lots of features in CPerl mode which I don't use, haven't touched and don't know about.	[reply]