Thanks for addressing my OP. The whole smoke testing thing is really a side issue. I was not trying to hurry the process of releasing 5.10, just enquiring as to when it was likely to be.

Patches are great for those who build their own binaries. From my best guess, that is about 10-15% of perl's installed base.

But getting back to my OP, defined-or was just an example, possibly the oldest, of the new features that I would like to use. In particular, the new mechanism that allows the addition of new, scoped keywords is of particular interest. Specifically, I would like to continue my experiments, starting with the sources of a new release that incorporates those new features, and all the (I believe fairly extensive), source code changes that underlie them. The critical part for my purposes is starting from a known, fixed, meaningful point. A new release would fit the bill nicely.

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