Where are the perldelta files for development releases?

Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

perl5160delta says:

Documentation
- Removed Documentation
  - Development Deltas
    The perldelta files for development releases are no longer packaged with perl. These can still be found in the perl source code repository.

I can't find them on github or metacpan or perldoc.perl.org.

Note: The old pre-5.16.0 dev deltas are on perldoc.perl.org:
https://perldoc.perl.org/5.14.4/perl595delta EXISTS
https://perldoc.perl.org/5.16.0/perl595delta DROPPED
https://metacpan.org/pod/perl595delta 404

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Re: Where are the perldelta files for development releases? by Corion (Patriarch) on Apr 28, 2026 at 07:13 UTC
The Perldelta files for a development version are distributed with the development version, for example Perl 5.43.9 contains the Perldelta files for the 5.43 versions. What goes into a stable Perl release is then summarized from the perldelta files.	[reply]

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