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Major New Version of Perl Released

On Thursday, a major new version of Perl was released. The new version is 5.8.0, and it includes the following improvements:


  • better Unicode support
  • a new threads implementation, and
  • a new Input/Output layer

The release notes and links to the download mirrors are located on dev.perl.org.

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