With a lot of exciting fixes and speedups, this is your chance to test your applications and scripts against the next stable release of perl5, our beloved favorite language of choice :)

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We are happy to announce perl v5.22.0... RC1! This is the first release candidate of Perl 5.22.0.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.22.0-RC1 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.22.0-RC1/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

  1071900bc3256fe4192838bae20d584c5b9c9057  perl-5.22.0-RC1.tar.bz2
  84708890539e5f22ddd5225e8832f75dea1904a9  perl-5.22.0-RC1.tar.gz
  32e8eee537d23d6f499b4763741a2f3822cdaee7  perl-5.22.0-RC1.tar.xz
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You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web.

perl-5.22.0's official release will occur on or about June 1st, 2015, assuming no critical bugs are found between now and then.

UPDATE 2015-05-22:

We are happy to announce perl v5.22.0... RC2! This is the second release candidate of Perl 5.22.0.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.22.0-RC2 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/RJBS/perl-5.22.0-RC2/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

  3e29914391b638d827139178c162e9d3b3a4080d  perl-5.22.0-RC2.tar.bz2
  f899809eb6c18cbe9230b12dc21783356ecbe08d  perl-5.22.0-RC2.tar.gz
  086515e59b69fc9ed51039497854fa7016bae587  perl-5.22.0-RC2.tar.xz
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