Perl v5.42.0 is now available!

  "Forty-two," said Deep Thought, with infinite majesty and calm.

    -- Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

We really know where our towel is, and we are hooptiously delighted
to announce version 5.42.0, the first release of version 5.42 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.42.0 from your favorite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/BOOK/perl-5.42.0/

This release, while shipped under my name, wouldn't have been possible
without the help of Thibault, Karen and Eric these past weeks. <3

SHA256 digests for this release are:

 e093ef184d7f9a1b9797e2465296f55510adb6dab8842b0c3ed53329663096dc perl-5.42.0.tar.gz
 73cf6cc1ea2b2b1c110a18c14bbbc73a362073003893ffcedc26d22ebdbdd0c3 perl-5.42.0.tar.xz

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 at

https://metacpan.org/release/BOOK/perl-5.42.0/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.42.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl
5.40.0 and contains approximately 280,000 lines of changes across 1,500
files from 64 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools,
there were approximately 93,000 lines of changes to 860 .pm, .t, .c
and .h files.

Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to
have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.42.0:

Aaron Dill, Andrei Horodniceanu, Andrew Ruthven, Antanas Vaitkus,
Aristotle Pagaltzis, Branislav Zahradník, brian d foy, Chad Granum,
Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dabrien 'Dabe' Murphy, Dagfinn
Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Book, Daniel Dragan, Dan Jacobson, David
Cantrell, David Mitchell, E. Choroba, Ed J, Ed Sabol, Elvin Aslanov,
Eric Herman, Erik Huelsmann, Gianni Ceccarelli, Graham Knop, hbmaclean,
H.Merijn Brand, iabyn, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Johan Vromans,
Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Marek
Rouchal, Marin Tsanov, Mark Fowler, Masahiro Honma, Max Maischein,
Paul Evans, Paul Johnson, Paul Marquess, Peter Eisentraut, Peter John
Acklam, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), pyrrhlin, Reini Urban, Richard Leach,
Robert Rothenberg, Russ Allbery, Scott Baker, Sergei Zhmylev, Sevan
Janiyan, Sisyphus, Štěpán Němec, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke,
Thibault Duponchelle, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Unicode Consortium,
Vladimír Marek, Yves Orton.

The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
generated from version control history. In particular, it does not
include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.

Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN
community for helping Perl to flourish.

For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.

We expect to make the first development snapshot of perl v5.43 on July
20th, 2025. The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the
first half of 2026.

    With love,

-- 
 Philippe Bruhat (BooK)

 Food and life were both meant to be shared with others.
                                   (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #119 (Epic))

• Perl v5.42.0 is now available! by philippe
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