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perl 5.8.4 released (use Perl)

[Posted April 27, 2004 by cook]

Version 5.8.4 of Perl has been announced. "5.8.4 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. This release updates Perl to the Unicode Character Database, Version 4.0.1, and fixes some minor errors in Perl's UTF8 handling. It provides optimisations for Unicode case conversion functions, map and sort, and on most platforms now provides protection against memory wrapping attacks."

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