Re: Perl 5.42.1 is now available!

Just a quick FYI that I was able to compile this and all the tests 
passed on ARM aarch64.

-- Scottchiefbaker

On 3/8/2026 11:57 AM, Steve Hay via perl5-porters wrote:
>    'There are worse crimes than murder,' said the small man in the grey
> suit.  'And there are worse punishments than the electric chair.'
> [...]
>    'Civilization?' the little man questioned, as the bartender drew my
> beer.  'What is it, anyway? It's a carefully cultivated myth.  We are
> just savages living in upholstered caves.  Give any man sufficient
> provocation and the barbarian will emerge.'
>
>    -- Andrew Benedict, "The Wall-to-Wall Grave" (in "Alfred Hitchcock
>       presents: Stories my mother never told me, Part One")
>
> We are pleased to announce version 42.1, the first maintenance release
> of version 42 of Perl 5.
>
> You will soon be able to download Perl 5.42.1 from your favourite CPAN
> mirror or find it at:
>
>    https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.42.1/
>
> SHA256 digests for this release are:
>
>    *perl-5.42.1.tar.gz
>    6f84e6dc8cce97181d1c6aeeb552c13775c91ded3c6c73743c9211af87b16bf8
>
>    *perl-5.42.1.tar.xz
>    098c7f76e7a28443f6403610c7e339777905360c5225798fd142b8d33b05c6b4
>
> 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 5.42.1 represents approximately 8 months of development since Perl
> 5.42.0 and contains approximately 7,200 lines of changes across 55 files
> from 12 authors.
>
> Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
> were approximately 1,700 lines of changes to 16 .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 5.42.1:
>
> David Mitchell, Eric Herman, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Lukas
> Mai, Max Maischein, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Richard Leach, Steve Hay,
> Thibault Duponchelle, Tony Cook, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes.
>
> 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.
>
> The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of
> 2026.
>
> Steve Hay
>