Perl 5.43.6 is now available!

For me, to remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it
seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the
following day a trivial one.

  -- Christopher Hitchens, "Mortality"

We are amused to be able to announce version 43.6, the sixth
development release of version 43 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.43.6 from your favourite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.43.6/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

  *perl-5.43.6.tar.gz
  c93a24d245b9f8e2a5bee6bc17d670f556ba3e75a3e090728b2210ec3323f136

  *perl-5.43.6.tar.xz
  342b0f46cd88993f0023b182e6637f6d20510487c3243a80e2da279883905447

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.

Perl 5.43.6 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
5.43.5 and contains approximately 25,000 lines of changes across 330
files from 17 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
were approximately 11,000 lines of changes to 280 .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 5.43.6:

Bartosz Jarzyna, Chad Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David
Mitchell, Eric Herman, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Karl Williamson,
Max Maischein, Paul Evans, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Richard Leach, Steve
Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Thibault Duponchelle, Tony Cook.

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 43.7 on 20 January 2026.  The next major
stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2026.

Enjoy!

Steve Hay