It's fun to charter an accountant                       
        And sail the wide accountan-cy,   
        To find, explore the funds offshore
        And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.

        Accountancy Shanty - Eric Idle/John Du Prez

I was hoping to avoid release candidate two, but there have been a few
significant tweaks since RC1. Notably             

0: Jan Dubois has provided a patch to make threaded 5.8.2 binary compa
+tible
   with 5.8.0. 5.8.1 accidentally broke binary compatibility with 5.8.
+0 for     
   certain threaded functions, and we feel that given the choice of
   compatibility with only one, choosing 5.8.0 is the lesser of two ev
+ils.

1: Stas Bekman has worked tirelessly to figure out how I broke mod_per
+l, and
   we both think that it's all working now.

2: Dave Mitchell has fixed several more thread sharing leaks.

3: The change to UNIVERSAL has been taken out for now.         

4: The caching of failure on %INC needs more work, and is out for now

RC2 actually escaped to CPAN this morning, so it's probably quite
widespread by now:

  http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.2-RC2.tar.bz2

(or tar.gz if you really want a 25% larger download.)

Unless any show stoppers are reported within the next 48 hours I will 
+weigh
the anchor, and 5.8.2 will be on her way.     

And nothing The Very Big Corporation of America can do will stop us. :
+-)

Nicholas Clark
[download]

Abigail