Future of support for older Perl versions in DBI

Question:

Are there any plans to sunset support for older Perl versions such as 5.8.x in 
DBI in the foreseeable future or is the plan to continue to support 5.8.1+ 
indefinitely until something unforeseen thing prevents it?

Is there any information about how many people are actually still using 5.8.x 
for example?

I ask because I plan to introduce new database-related CPAN modules and am 
starting to think about what minimum Perl version I should support.  By default 
the answer would be 5.8.0+ because that doesn't exclude anything that DBI itself 
supports.  But if DBI later say decided to require 5.10.0+ or something else 
newer than 5.8.x then I would likely follow suit.  I don't actually need any 
Perl features newer than what 5.8.0 provides, but I would leverage some for 
cleaner coding if they were available.

Thank you for any insight.

-- Darren Duncan