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A summary of discussion taking place on the Perl 6 mailing lists between September 24 and 30, 2006 is now available.

A summary of discussion taking place on the Perl 6 mailing lists between September 17 and 23, 2006 is now available.

A summary of discussion taking place on the Perl 6 mailing lists between September 10 and 16, 2006 is now available.

A summary of discussion taking place on the Perl 6 mailing lists between September 2 and 9, 2006 is now available.

It has been announced that the first technical meeting of the Purdue Perl Mongers will be held on September 12, 2006.

A summary of discussion on the Perl 6 mailing lists between August 27 and September 2, 2006 is now available.

The Chicago Perl Hackathon has been announced. "It will be a round-the-clock weekend of programming on Perl-related projects with your colleagues in the open source community. Dozens of programmers from the open source community in the midwest, as well as others from around the US, will be getting together to share ideas, work on code, and move their Perl-related projects forward."

The hackathon will be held from November 10 to 12, 2006, in Crystal Lake, Illinois.

Perl 5.9.4 has been released.

This release includes: changes to the handling of pmc files, support for the state variables, the addition of the DOES() method to the UNIVERSAL class, new core modules, documentation improvements, performance enhancements, plus bugfixes and other changes.

Perl in Lisp 0.1 has been released. It is a Common Lisp interface to the Perl 5 API.

This beta release "can evaluate strings of Perl code, call Perl functions, and convert between Lisp and Perl types. Callbacks from Perl to Lisp are not yet supported. Some Perl modules may not work, particularly if they depend on external C libraries."

Pugs 6.2.12 has been released. Pugs is a Perl 6 implementation written in Haskell.

This release includes: performance enhancements, various syntax changes, updated modules, documentation improvements, plus other changes and fixes.

v6.pm has also been released. It is a prototype Perl 6 compiler implemented in Perl 5.

PythonPerl 0.9 has been released. PythonPerl is a Python module that allows for the use of Perl inside Python.

Apress is offering a Perl eBook bundle promotion lasting until May 31, 2006. The 'Beginning Perl Web Development: From Novice to Professional', 'Pro Perl', 'Pro Perl Parsing', 'Regular Expression Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach', and 'Perl 6 Now: The Core Ideas Illustrated with Perl 5' eBooks are available as a bundle for $50.

It has been announced that video recordings from Yet Another Perl Conference::Asia 2006 Tokyo are now available online.

The creation of the perl6-users mailing list has been announced. It is a list intended for Perl 6 users, rather than implementors.

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Seattle Perl Users Group will be held on May 16, 2006. Murray Chapman will be discussing the use of Perl at the Internet Movie Database (IMDb).

It has been announced that the next meeting of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Perl Mongers will be held on May 23, 2006. brian d foy will be presenting the "The Magic of Tied Variables" chapter from his upcoming "Mastering Perl" book.

It has been announced that the schedule for the Yet Another Perl Conference North America 2006 is now available. The abstracts are available from within the schedule.

The conference will be held from June 26 to 28, 2006, in Chicago.

It has been announced that the Yet Another Perl Conference North America 2006 registration is now open. The conference will be held from June 26 to 28, 2006, in Chicago. Courses will be offered on June 29 and 30.

Perl for z/OS 1.0.0 has been released. It is a statically-linked, precompiled port of Perl 5.8.7 to IBM z/OS UNIX. This new port offers "a version of Perl with all known defects resolved and a dedicated support team to address new problems that may arise."

Perl 5.8.8 has been released.

This release includes: support for chdir, chmod, and chown to work on filehandles; module-related changes and fixes; a glossary of Perl-related terminology in the form of the perlglossary manpage, O(1) weak reference creation, improved building under Win32 with Borland's compilers, plus other bugfixes and changes.