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Perl 5.8.0 released

[Posted July 19, 2002 by corbet]

The release announcement for Perl 5.8.0 has gone out. Stuff in the new release includes improved Unicode support, a new threads implementation, 64-bit support, a big pile of new modules, and more; see the announcement for the full list.

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Perl 5.8.0 released

Posted Jul 23, 2002 10:09 UTC (Tue) by sunny (guest, #850) [Link]

Isn’t this just typical... Have had Perl 5.005 installed for years, and upgraded to 5.6.1 four days before the release. Small version of Murphy’s Law.

But it’s still good news. Especially excited about the new Unicode support. Let’s boogie.

sunny@lwn