Perl 5.26 now available on CentOS7/RHEL7

The stock system perl on RHEL7/CentOS7 has been 5.16.3 since these OS versions were launched back in 2014. Now a much newer perl (5.26) is available to install as a package via SCL. See today's announcement for more details.

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Re: Perl 5.26 now available on CentOS7/RHEL7 by marioroy (Prior) on Jun 13, 2018 at 11:47 UTC
Greetings hippo, Thank you for making my day. Perl v5.26 runs beautifully on recent hardware.	[reply]
Re: Perl 5.26 now available on CentOS7/RHEL7 by Anonymous Monk on Jun 13, 2018 at 00:16 UTC
Why would anybody want to use perl 5.26 due to lack of `POSIX::tmpname` as it probably broke vast numbers of programs?! Savages!	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Perl 5.26 now available on CentOS7/RHEL7 by Anonymous Monk on Jun 13, 2018 at 00:41 UTC
I'm guessing POSIX broke everyone who is compliant, so way more than Perl.	[reply]
Re^3: Perl 5.26 now available on CentOS7/RHEL7 by Anonymous Monk on Jun 13, 2018 at 00:57 UTC
Right. POSIX 1-2008, Issue 7 marks `tmpnam` to be obsolete.	[reply] [d/l]