Perl 5.45.2 is released

  "My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my
  life there."

    -- Charles F. Kettering

We are delighted to announce version 5.45.2, the second development release
of
version 5.45 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.45.2 from your favorite CPAN mirror
or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/ETHER/perl-5.45.2/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

 4ee6767d0f9e02899dc930aa6c0deeb87f6c6c92e53a796e4ccf5414afa7938f
perl-5.45.2.tar.gz
 aae073cc3f1320d18e179ed5e1ae6222244ba6261681383b76eb1368e1fa0a4e
perl-5.45.2.tar.xz

You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in
the
"pod" directory inside the release and on the web at

https://metacpan.org/release/ETHER/perl-5.45.2/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.45.2 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
5.45.1
and contains approximately 24,000 lines of changes across 320 files from 25
authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 15,000 lines of changes to 220 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to have
contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.45.2:

Andreas König, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Bartosz Jarzyna, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn
Ilmari Mannsåker, Daniel Tang, David Mitchell, H.Merijn Brand, James E
Keenan,
Jan Dubois, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai,
Marc
Reisner, Max Maischein, Paul Evans, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Richard Leach,
Sevan Janiyan, Stan Ulbrych, Steve Hay, theoremoon, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.

The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include
the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to
the Perl bug tracker.

Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
helping Perl to flourish.

For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please
see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

We expect to release version 5.45.3 on 20 September 2026. The next major
stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2027.

Use it together, use it in peace.