Nicholas Clark has published the first Release Candidate for the upcoming 5.8.8 maintenance release. You can pick up the perl-5.8.8-RC1.tar.bz2 (or perl-5.8.8-RC1.tar.bz2) tarballs from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/, or, better still, from a CPAN mirror near you.

If you want to take it for a spin to test out your own modules, remember to add a prefix to the installation, with something like Configure -Dprefix=/home/me/perltest, otherwise it will overwrite your current perl installation. Which is probably fine, but possibly unsettling.

Please take it for a spin, and help ensure that this release is of the best possible quality.