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Perl 5.8.9 Released
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Perl 5.8.9 has been released. Perl is a cross-platform, high-level, general-purpose programming language.
This release includes: an update of the Unicode Character Database to 5.1.0, support for source filters in @INC, improved internal UTF-8 caching, Configure support for creating a perl tree that is relocatable at runtime, new internal variables, support for overriding the readpipe built-in function, simple exception handling macros, support for several new platforms, new and updated modules, the new perlthanks utility, new and updated documentation, performance improvements, bug fixes, new tests, and other changes.
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