I am surprised in the Perl community how common it is to run out of date versions of Perl.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems to me that any version of perl prior to 5.30.3 is insecure (in that it would have unpatched CVE's).

Anyone using Perl for any semi-serious purpose should have tests in there release chain to assist in upgrading to the newest version of Perl at a moments notice - as a new version of a CVE could be discovered at any time.

Perl itself (at least for 5.x) is meant to be backwards compatible as well. I can't remember the last time I moved perl up and had a single compatibility issue even with my products using hundreds and hundreds of CPAN modules. I believe the last time was around 5.16'ish when Perl arguably broke backwards compatibility by changing some behaviors of the Perl API which impacted AnyEvent.

In reply to Re: Is there a concerted effort to break CPAN for older perl versions to drive support for v7? by Anonymous Monk
in thread Is there a concerted effort to break CPAN for older perl versions to drive support for v7? by Anonymous Monk

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