OK, this isn't a development release, but is a important thing, and need to be in the Perl site! Note, that nothing is commented about the 5.8.1 development!
Graciliano M. P.
"The creativity is the expression of the liberty".
I'm unsure what you like to see changed. 5.8.1 hasn't
happened yet, and we don't want people to download
5.8.1-RC2 and use it in production code. As for the
development track, no release in the current track has
happened yet. There is NO development release of Perl
as of 21 July 2003. And 5.8.0 is still the latest
stable release.