Perl 5.24.2 binary kits for OpenVMS available

Installation kits for OpenVMS Alpha and OpenVMS I64 v8.3 and later are =
available at:

<https://sourceforge.net/projects/vmsperlkit/files/>

and should soon be at:

<http://download.perl.space/>

as well (though they aren=E2=80=99t quite yet as of this writing).

N.B. Since I did not release kits for 5.24.1, these are the first kits =
that contain mitigations for CVE-2016-1238 [1].=20

The files are self-extracting archives and after downloading you must =
run them like so:

$ run VMSPORTS-AXPVMS-PERL524-V0524-2-1.SFX_AXPEXE

for Alpha, and:

$ run VMSPORTS-I64VMS-PERL524-V0524-2-1.SFX_I64EXE

for Itanium.  Then, on either platform:

$ product install perl524

and follow the usual installation prompts. Note that the major version =
is now included in the product name so this installation will not remove =
installations of previous versions (e.g., 5.20 or 5.22).

The kits provided here are intended to be a convenient way to acquire a =
default build; there are many other configuration options available if =
you build your own Perl from the source at =
<http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/>.

Have an appropriate amount of fun.  Anything related to these kits that =
turns out to be more fun than you can handle is probably best reported =
on the vmsperl mailing list.[2]

Changes in this release can be found via typing "perldoc perldelta" =
after installation or viewing on the web at:

<https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/pod/perl5241delta.pod>
<https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blob/HEAD:/pod/perl5242delta.pod>

[1] <https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=3DCVE-2016-1238>
[2] <http://lists.perl.org/list/vmsperl.html>


________________________________________
Craig A. Berry

"... getting out of a sonnet is much more
 difficult than getting in."
                 Brad Leithauser