Release announcement for perl v5.43.8

  "Would you have a Ben Hur, 1860, Third Edition, the one with the
   duplicated line on page 116?"

    -- Raymond Chandler, "The Big Sleep"

We are impelled to announce version 5.43.8,
the eighth development release of version 5.43 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.43.8 from your
favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/HYDAHY/perl-5.43.8/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

 44bc66a00ca494b66ed3f5221ad8b89271d8dca397a1fd0f5f6d0f047db0a2ca
perl-5.43.8.tar.gz
 34395fc6adc6230b3c5ee1614ef2ce9a13f03c1dcf88976c57b5c73d029b2481
perl-5.43.8.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/HYDAHY/perl-5.43.8/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.43.8 represents approximately 5 weeks of development since Perl
5.43.7 and contains approximately 56,000 lines of changes across 320 files
from 20 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 48,000 lines of changes to 190 .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 5.43.8:

Craig A. Berry, David Mitchell, Graham Knop, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan,
James Raspass, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Max Maischein,
Paul Evans, Paul Marquess, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Ricardo Signes, Richard
Leach, Scott Baker, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Tomasz Konojacki, 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 5.43.9 on 2026-03-20.
The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2026.

'Til then, happy coding!