perl v5.40.0 released

  “What’s your name,” Coraline asked the cat. “Look, I’m Coraline. Okay?”
  “Cats don’t have names,” it said.
  “No?” said Coraline.
  “No,” said the cat. “Now you people have names. That’s because you
don’t know who you are. We know who we are, so we don’t need names.”

    -- Neil Gaiman, Coraline

We are happy to announce version 5.40.0, the first release of version
5.40 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.40.0 from your
favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/HAARG/perl-5.40.0/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

  c740348f357396327a9795d3e8323bafd0fe8a5c7835fc1cbaba0cc8dfe7161f
perl-5.40.0.tar.gz
  d5325300ad267624cb0b7d512cfdfcd74fa7fe00c455c5b51a6bd53e5e199ef9
perl-5.40.0.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/HAARG/perl-5.40.0/view/pod/p...

Perl 5.40.0 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl
5.38.0 and contains approximately 160,000 lines of changes across 1,500
files from 75 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 110,000 lines of changes to 1,200 .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 5.40.0:

Abe Timmerman, Alexander Kanavin, Amory Meltzer, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Arne
Johannessen, Beckett Normington, Bernard Quatermass, Bernd, Bruno Meneguele,
Chad Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Christoph Lamprecht, Craig A. Berry,
Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Book, Dan Church, Daniel Böhmer, Dan
Jacobson, Dan Kogai, David Golden, David Mitchell, E. Choroba, Elvin
Aslanov, Erik Huelsmann, Eugen Konkov, Gianni Ceccarelli, Graham Knop, Greg
Kennedy, guoguangwu, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, iabyn,
Jake Hamby, Jakub Wilk, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Joe McMahon, Johan
Vromans, John Karr, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas
Mai, Marco Fontani, Marek Rouchal, Martijn Lievaart, Mathias Kende, Matthew
Horsfall, Max Maischein, Nicolas Mendoza, Nicolas R, OpossumPetya, Paul
Evans, Paul Marquess, Peter John Acklam, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Raul E
Rangel, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Scott Baker, Sevan
Janiyan, Sisyphus, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz Konojacki,
Tom Hughes, Tony Cook, William Lyu, x-yuri, Yves Orton, Zakariyya Mughal,
Дилян Палаузов.

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 v5.41 on
June 20th, 2024.  The next major stable release of Perl should appear
in the first half of 2025.