Perl 5.8.1 RC3 and RC4 (use Perl)

Use Perl has an announcement for Perl 5.8.1 RC3. "Please test extensively, even if you had no problems with RC1 or RC2. In RC3 we turned on by default the new "hash randomisation" feature which means that the "order" of hash elements is now even more random. If an application mistakenly assumes a repeatable ordering of hash elements, you will find it out now."

Perl 5.8.1 RC4 was also announced this week. "The same bat channel as for RC3, almost the same perldelta as for RC3. The main change from RC3 was a bunch of module updates (most importantly the CPAN.pm 1.76 which does not force feed Module::Signature)."

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