Perl 5.40.5-RC1 is now available!

Default Man feels he is the reference point from which all other values
and cultures are judged. He might not be aware of it, but Default Man
thinks he is the zero longitude of identities.

  -- Grayson Perry, "The Descent of Man"

We are pleased to announce the first release candidate of version 40.5,
the fifth maintenance release of version 40 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.40.5-RC1 from your favourite
CPAN mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.5-RC1/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

  *perl-5.40.5-RC1.tar.gz:
  cab488f54212da786dbb8268ab1db637078317aa7b9c545ca20b7073645d78ae

  *perl-5.40.5-RC1.tar.xz:
  66dbe75e95f386ddb724bdf20cc9f642707fcf7a3ebac3bec9549a0de82476b9

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-5.40.5-RC1.
This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
v5.40.5 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.40.5 than
for v5.40.6!

The final v5.40.5 is expected to ship on 2 August.

Steve Hay