ActiveState announces ActivePerl 5.14.0

ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.14.0 build 1400,
a complete, ready-to-install binary distribution of Perl.

Builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are made freely available.
Builds for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX are available with ActivePerl Business
Edition. For detailed information or to download these releases, see:

  http://www.activestate.com/activeperl


What's new in ActivePerl
========================

ActivePerl 5.14 is now based on the 5.14.0 release. You can read about all
the changes since Perl 5.12.0 in the perldelta document:

  http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.14/lib/pods/perl5140delta.html

Some highlights of 5.14 are:

- Improved Unicode support, especially for regular expressions.  You
  can now explicitly request ASCII/Unicode/locale semantics with the
  /a, /u, and /l regexp modifiers.

- The s/// substitution operator has a non-destructive /r option. For
  example this statement will not modify the elements of @orig:

    my @copy = map { s/cat/dog/r } @orig;

- Exception handling is more reliable; $@ doesn't get clobbered by
  destructors anymore.

Getting Started
===============

Whether you're a first-time user or a long-time fan, our free resources
will help you get the most from ActivePerl.

Mailing list archives:

  http://code.activestate.com/lists/activeperl/


Supported Platforms
===================

ActivePerl is available for the following platforms:

- Windows/x86   (32-bit)
- Windows/x64   (64-bit) (aka "AMD64")
- Mac OS X
- Linux/x86     (32 bit)
- Linux/x86_64  (64-bit) (aka "AMD64")

- Solaris/SPARC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business Edition only)
- Solaris/x86   (32-bit)            (Business Edition only)
- HP-UX/PA-RISC (32-bit)            (Business Edition only)
- AIX/PowerPC   (32-bit)            (Business Edition only)

More information about the Business Edition can be found here:

  http://www.activestate.com/business-edition

Custom builds are available in the Enterprise Edition:

  http://www.activestate.com/enterprise-edition


Feedback
========

Everyone is encouraged to participate in making Perl an even better
language.

For bugs related to ActiveState use:

  http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePerl&version=1400

For bugs related directly to Perl please use the 'perlbug' utility.

Enjoy!