Perl 5.45.1 is now available

  And the man in the rain picked up his bag of secrets, and journeyed
  up the mountainside, far above the clouds, and nothing was ever heard
  from him again...
  ...except for the sound of Tubular Bells.=20

    -- Mike Oldfield, "Far Above The Clouds"

We are excited to announce version 5.45.1, the 1st development release
of version 5.45 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.45.1 from your favorite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/PEVANS/perl-5.45.1/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

 2b6d691916596835c411ee0181b6c66e4ee1c8d6ab60f8b0733c7c9cf8b58e3e  perl-5.4=
5.1.tar.gz
 f15cd7b9cd5436b014d32289cff927777035951072f7f1c83b0a1385b59fb807  perl-5.4=
5.1.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/PEVANS/perl-5.45.1/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.45.1 represents approximately 1 week of development since Perl
5.44.0 and contains approximately 36,000 lines of changes across 470
files from 19 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
were approximately 12,000 lines of changes to 310 .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 5.45.1:

Andrew Fresh, Chad Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry,
Dagfinn Ilmari Manns=C3=A5ker, David Mitchell, Georgij Tsarin, Graham Knop,
James E Keenan, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Paul
Evans, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Richard Leach, Russ Allbery, Steve Hay,
Tony Cook, Yves Orton.

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 5.45.2 on 2026-Aug-20. The next major
stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2027.

To another good year,

--=20
Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

[email protected]
http://www.leonerd.org.uk/  |  https://metacpan.org/author/PEVANS