Perl 5.43.9 is now available

  the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts;
  and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been,
  is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life

    -- Mary Ann Evans (under pen name George Eliot), Middlemarch, 1872

We are pleased to announce version 5.43.9,the 9th development release of
version 5.43 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.43.9 from your favorite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/EHERMAN/perl-5.43.9/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

aec72b03806f2003f97e86baf28a22a20cce912d618afadf3df1f005cda5b235
 perl-5.43.9.tar.gz
8ea93060b7696f8b9ab0523df877e985550a20e0742be8df70198ef3b4730409
 perl-5.43.9.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/EHERMAN/perl-5.43.9/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.43.9 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
5.43.8 and contains approximately 14,000 lines of changes across 310 files
from 22 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 9,500 lines of changes to 230 .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 5.43.9:

Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, David
Mitchell, Ed J, Eric Herman, Graham Knop, Harald Jörg, James E Keenan, Karl
Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Olaf Alders, Paul Evans, Paul
Marquess, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Scott Baker, Sevan Janiyan, Steve
Hay, Toby Inkster, 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 5.43.10 on 2026 April 20.
The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of
2026.

Cheers,
Eric