Released by Rafael today: 
        "Pray, my dear", quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to     
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        wind up the clock?"                 

            -- Sterne, Tristram Shandy, I, 1

Here is the first release candidate for perl 5.6.2. When the CPAN     
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mirrors will have synced it, it will be available from

    http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/R/RG/RGARCIA/perl-5.6.2-RC1.tar.gz

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Re: 5.6.2, Release Candidate 1
by theorbtwo (Prior) on Nov 09, 2003 at 07:38 UTC

    Since the announcement quoted above doesn't say what's different, here's the relevant bit of perldelta

    Summary of changes between 5.6.1 and 5.6.2

    The 5.6.2 release is aimed at providing only a minimal update to perl 5.6.1, which wasn't being compatible with some of the newest compilers (most notably gcc 3.x), libraries and operating systems that have appeared since 5.6.1 was released.

    Note also that perl no longer installs itself as /usr/bin/perl by default if it exists. (see the INSTALL file.)

    The following modules have been upgraded :

    Data::Dumper 2.121
    DB_File 1.806
    ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.17
    File::Spec 0.86
    File::Temp 0.14
    Safe 2.10
    Test 1.24
    Test::Harness 2.30

    The following modules were added :

    Test::Builder 0.17
    Test::More 0.47
    Test::Simple 0.47
    if 0.03

    You may also be interested in Changes, the full changelog.

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