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

Hi guys!

anyone can spread a little light on the differences between Perl 5.8.0 and 5.6.0/1, or can at least redirect me to a doc or something. I tried using the search engine but found quite old articles and I'm not sure they valid anymore, they all were a little suspicious about 5.8.0, and recomended it especially if I use unicode.
It would be nice also to get somehow a list of API changes in order for me to make the necessary changes if I'll decide to upgragde to 5.8.0.

thanks

Hotshot

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Re: Perl 5.8.0 VS. 5.6.0/1
by pg (Canon) on Nov 27, 2002 at 16:03 UTC
    1. For document, please read the perldelta comes with 5.8.0.
    2. My personal feeling, I like it, especially the threads part.
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Re: Perl 5.8.0 VS. 5.6.0/1
by gnangia (Scribe) on Nov 27, 2002 at 16:32 UTC
    5.8.0 is the latest stable release. I believe one of the new things it has fixed is a bunch of security holes. You may check out cpan's website for more details regarding perl 5.8 http://www.cpan.org/src/
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http://use.perl.org/perldelta.html
by Argel (Prior) on Nov 27, 2002 at 21:25 UTC
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