DBI 1.34 is out.

Apart from bug fixes, the interesting news are a couple of new method and a warning about minimum requirements being increased in future versions.

New methods

Quoting from the DBI documentation.

• can
  $is_implemented = $h->can($method_name);

  Returns true if $method_name is implemented by the driver or a default method is provided by the DBI.

• install_method
  DBD::Foo::db->install_method($method_name, \%attr); Installs the driver-private method named by $method_name into the DBI method dispatcher so it can be called directly, avoiding the need to use the func() method.

Minumum requirements

As of today, the DBI requires perl 5.005_03 or later. But this is going to change.

From Tim Bunce's announcement at dbi-announce@perl.org

Future versions of the DBI *will not* support perl 5.6.0 or earlier.
: Perl 5.6.1 will be the minimum supported version.

If you are using earlier versions of Perl and want to stay updated with the DBI in future, this looks like a good moment to start thinking about upgrades.
Notice that the same warning was issued for version 1.33 as well.

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