Perl 5.42.2-RC1 is now available!

Whist has long been noted for its influence upon what is termed the
calculating power; and men of the highest order of intellect have been
known to take an apparently unaccountable delight in it, while eschewing
chess as frivolous.  Beyond doubt there is nothing of a similar nature
so greatly tasking the faculty of analysis.  The best chess player in
Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but
proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more
important undertakings where mind struggles with mind.

  -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Murders in the Rue Morgue" (in "Tales of
     Mystery and Imagination")

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of version 42.2,
the second maintenance release of version 42 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.42.2-RC1 from your favourite
CPAN mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.42.2-RC1/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

  *perl-5.42.2-RC1.tar.gz:
  01d00c1bfa63e353ed7275507b0bc15ff143c84718aa4b490f9f6ab325dca532

  *perl-5.42.2-RC1.tar.xz:
  781dec92649654097c3b8b5a52028bcc2c8c7be442180ffff7e25a9d11cb331d

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.

***Please, please, please*** test your code against perl-5.42.2-RC1.
This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
v5.42.2 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.42.2 than
for v5.42.3!

The final v5.42.2 is expected to ship on 29 March.

Steve Hay