About:
Perl is a high-level, general-purpose programming language that makes easy things easy and hard things possible. It is optimized for scanning arbitrary text files and system administration. It has built-in extended regular expression matching and replacement, a dataflow mechanism to improve security with setuid scripts and is extensible via modules that can interface to C libraries.

Release focus: Minor bugfixes

Changes:
This code has new features and bugfixes relative to the stable version.

Author:
Perl Authors

Rating:	reset 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
8.74/10.00 (115 votes)

Homepage:
http://www.perl.org
Tar/GZ:
http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/CPAN/src/

Trove categories: [change]

[Development Status]		5 - Production/Stable
[Intended Audience]		Developers
[License]		OSI Approved, OSI Approved :: Artistic License, OSI Approved :: GNU General Public License (GPL), OSI Approved :: Perl License
[Programming Language]		C, Perl
[Topic]		Software Development :: Interpreters

Dependencies: [change]
No dependencies filed

 Branches

Branch	Version	Last release	License	URLs
Default	5.10.0	19-Dec-2007	Perl License
Development	5.9.1	13-Apr-2004	OSI Approved

 Releases

Version	Focus	Date
5.9.1	Minor bugfixes	13-Apr-2004 10:27

 Articles referencing this project

Red Hat: Updated perl packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Jun 22nd 2008 22:08 Debian: New perl packages fix denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Apr 28th 2008 01:44 Debian: New perl packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 11th 2007 00:54 Red Hat: Updated Perl packages fix a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Sun, Nov 11th 2007 00:45 Build Your Own XML Parser by Andrew Arensburger , in Tutorials Sat, Aug 25th 2007 00:00

Red Hat: Updated Perl packages fix security a security issue by Patrick Lenz , in Security Thu, Aug 24th 2006 13:24 Debian: New Perl packages fix arbitrary code execution by Patrick Lenz , in Security Mon, Jan 16th 2006 07:32 Red Hat: Updated Perl packages fix security issues and bugs by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Dec 20th 2005 12:17 SuSE: New perl packages fix remote denial of service by Patrick Lenz , in Security Tue, Dec 20th 2005 12:06 [more articles]

 Comments

[»] Announcments
by MyName - Dec 29th 2003 04:15:09

Would be great, if new versions would be announced at freshmeat.

The latest version is 5.8.2, not 5.8.0.

Regards

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[»] Re: Announcments
by Idles - Dec 17th 2006 11:46:47


> Would be great, if new versions would be

> announced at freshmeat.

Luckily they seem to be keeping this page up to date nowadays. The latest version is 5.8.8 and the site was promptly updated.


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[»] 5.8.0
by driz - Jul 21st 2002 21:11:20

Works great with mod_perl, everything compiled fastly and efficiently. Great stuff

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[»] Perl
by OkIDaN - Feb 4th 2005 12:19:32

Perl is a wonderful language.

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