Re: Perl 5.44.0-RC1 is now available

Hi,

I would like to ask about the release schedule for the final version of 
Perl 5.44.0. Do you have a planned release date yet?

To be able to include this new version in the upcoming Fedora 45, we 
need to land the update by July 13th.
Any info on the timeline would be highly appreciated!

Thank you,
Jitka


On 6/23/26 03:17, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their 
> creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost 
> and replaced by vague ritual.
>
>     -- Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
>
> We are excited to announce version 5.44.0-RC1,
> the first release candidate of version 5.44 of Perl.
>
> You will soon be able to download Perl 5.44.0-RC1 from your
> favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:
>
> https://metacpan.org/release/LEONT/perl-5.44.0-RC1/
>
> SHA256 digests for this release are:
>
>  84e7e11b576812c0b742215bb5fe8082893bb667ed505f3b8f300fb4acfae367 
> perl-5.44.0-RC1.tar.gz
>  6949e911eabc2eb47e74b4649c36a8a9a0f2e98606920c16626fb0e8cd2bc706 
> perl-5.44.0-RC1.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/LEONT/perl-5.44.0-RC1/view/pod/perldelta.pod
>
> Perl 5.44.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl
> 5.42.0 and contains approximately 270,000 lines of changes across 1,300
> files from 71 authors.
>
> Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there 
> were
> approximately 110,000 lines of changes to 860 .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 5.44.0:
>
> Alexander Karelas, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Arne Johannessen, Bartosz Jarzyna,
> Branislav Zahradník, brian d foy, Chad Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams,
> Chris Prather, Christian Hansen, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker,
> Dan Book, Dan Church, Daniel Dragan, Daniel Laügt, Daniel Tang, Dan Kogai,
> Dave Cross, David Mitchell, Dmitrii Kuvaiskii, E. Choroba, Ed J, Elvin
> Aslanov, Eric Herman, Eugen Konkov, Graham Knop, Harald Jörg, H.Merijn
> Brand, Igor Todorovski, James Cook, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Jörg
> Thomas, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Marc
> Reisner, Masahiro Iuchi, Matthew Horsfall, Maxim Vuets, Max Maischein,
> Nicolas R, Olaf Alders, Paul Evans, Paul Marquess, Peter John Acklam,
> Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Robert Rothenberg,
> Ryan Carsten Schmidt, Samuel Smith, Samuel Young, Scott Baker, Sevan
> Janiyan, Shirakata Kentaro, Sisyphus, Stan Ulbrych, Stefan Adams, Štěpán
> Němec, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Thibault Duponchelle, Toby Inkster, 
> Tomasz
> Konojacki, Tom Wyant, Tony Cook, Unicode Consortium, 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 F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
>
> Support for the 5.40.x release series will end shortly.
> Please refer to L<perlpolicy> for version support information.
>
> We expect to release version 5.44.0 in the following weeks.
>
> Leon

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Jitka Plesnikova
Senior Software Engineer
Red Hat