Perl 5.43.7 has been released

   "When this door translates", Pipra says, pointing at it. "This side 
will be
   either the front or the back of the bright door. If it's the back, 
the door
   will vanish - we want to know what that looks like. Does it pop out of
   existence? Does it make a noise? Is there a puff of air? A farting sound?

     -- Vajra Chandrasekera - The Saint of Bright Doors

We are elated to announce version 5.43.7,
the seventh development release of version 5.43 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.43.7 from your
favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/CORION/perl-5.43.7/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

d8aa3057fab477b779f6658e42471836cc05f6bcbfd8416959e2f8d177a47d0b 
perl-5.43.7.tar.gz
3fc569697cfbfe676fbabd262efb820c13d5ec1327ede3e3e60b00d623db3fbd 
perl-5.43.7.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/CORION/perl-5.43.7/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.43.7 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
5.43.6 and contains approximately 4,200 lines of changes across 110 files
from 14 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 2,500 lines of changes to 55 .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 5.43.7:

Bartosz Jarzyna, Dan Church, David Mitchell, Graham Knop, James E Keenan,
Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Max Maischein, Paul Evans, Samuel Young, 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 F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.

We expect to release version 5.43.8 on 2026-02-20.
The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 
2026.

Greetings,
Max Maischein