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.

Abigail