Whats breaking? Much less than you might expect, but more than I had hoped.

That about sums it up! (Just kidding.) But in all seriousness, PLEASE TEST YOUR CODE!. Please install the trial releases of Test-Simple, try building your dependency chains against it! Please also try your non-cpan code against it. There has been plenty of warning, and you still have almost 3 months to file bug reports.

After talking with the toolchain, and Ricardo Signes, a new Test-Simple release plan has been made. The Test-Simple release will sync up with blead and the 5.22.0 release (well, kind of).

This is the perl release schedule:

• 2015-01-20 5.21.8 Contentious changes freeze


• 2015-02-20 5.21.9 User-visible changes freeze


• 2015-03-20 5.21.10 Full code freeze


• 2015-05-20 5.22.0 Stable release!

We settled on 2015-03-19 as the Test-Simple release date. The idea is to …

Unless something comes up, I plan to release the new Test-Simple, with refactored and new internals, on Saturday January 10'th.

Test-Simple-1.301001_096

This trial version has been on cpan since December 28'th. No issues have been reported against this trial version. Assuming that does not change I will re-release it as stable. Now is absolutely the time to check your code against this new version.

The goal from the start has been to maintain compatibility as much as possible. …