Re: Perl 5.44.0-RC2 is now available

Compiled and tested on ARM64 it worked great. Confirmed the SHA256sum of 
the .gz file also.

$ ./perl -v
This is perl 5, version 44, subversion 0 (v5.44.0) built for aarch64-linux

-- Scottchiefbaker

On 7/8/2026 8:50 AM, Leon Timmermans wrote:
> Here lies a toppled god--
> His fall was not a small one.
> We did but build his pedestal,
> A narrow and a tall one.
>     -- Frank Herbert - Dune Messiah
>
> We are pleased to announce version 5.44.0-RC2,
> the second release candidate of version 5.44 of Perl.
>
> You will soon be able to download Perl 5.44.0-RC2 from your
> favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:
>
> https://metacpan.org/release/LEONT/perl-5.44.0-RC2/
>
> SHA256 digests for this release are:
>
>  08971296934bd9d371d306e0279f33f759d7eae23b3c6cd64254d12cb17e1060 
>  perl-5.44.0-RC2.tar.gz
>  56a5acb8e3f5508d1a9280962be6023e20b639809a714d0dfa64786f94c2248b 
>  perl-5.44.0-RC2.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-RC2/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