Perl 5.8.0 released!

The full announcement is available, and you can read what is new in 5.8.0, and if you like what you see, start installing.

Since this release has extensive support for non-Latin scripts, we also translated the announcement to Traditional Chinese (Big5-ETEN), Simplified Chinese (EUC-CN or GB2312), Japanese (EUC-JP), and Korean (EUC-KR) (by Autrijus Tang, Dan Kogai, and Jungshik Shin).

ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/src/perl-5.8.0.tar.gz is the main URL to use, but of course any CPAN mirror will do once they catch up.

Share and Enjoy!

-- Jarkko Hietaniemi, on behalf of the Perl5 Porters"

YAPC 2002 Coverage

Robert Spier have done some interviews at YAPC::America::North 2002. See the full list or listen to the interviews with Schuyler Earle, Kevin Lenzo, Dave Rolsky or Chris Nandor.

We also have a short QuickTime movie of Larry Wall, Dan Sugalski and Damian Conway working on Perl 6 in the days before YAPC.

The Perl Review

You can download the second issue of The Perl Review, new magazine devoted to Perl.

Perl Mongers and Yet Another Society Merger

(August 1, 2001) Perl Mongers and YAS joined forces to provide a single organization for Perl advocacy and support. YAS will take over the activities and resources of Perl Mongers. Watch the YAS website for details.

Donate to the Perl Foundation

The Perl Foundation coordinates the efforts of numerous grass-roots Perl-based groups including the Perl Mongers, perlmonks, the international Yet Another Perl Conferences, perl.org, and holds the copyright on Perl 6 and Parrot.
The Perl Foundation is sponsoring several key developers of Perl 6; including Larry Wall. Make a tax free donation at donate.perl-foundation.org.