bingos

  
  {Neo sees a black cat walk by them, and then a similar black
      cat walk by them just like the first one}
  
  Neo:      Whoa. Deja vu.
  
  {Everyone freezes right in their tracks}
  
  Trinity:  What did you just say?
  Neo:      Nothing. Just had a little deja vu.
  Trinity:  What did you see?
  Cypher:   What happened?
  Neo:      A black cat went past us, and then another that
               looked just like it.
  Trinity:  How much like it? Was it the same cat?
  Neo:      It might have been. I'm not sure.
  Morpheus: Switch! Apoc!
  Neo:      What is it?
  Trinity:  A deja vu is usually a glitch in the Matrix. It happens  
              when they change something.
  
     -- Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski, 'The Matrix'

It gives me great pleasure to announce the release of Perl 5.13.7.

This is the eighth DEVELOPMENT release in the 5.13.x series leading to a stable release of Perl 5.14.0. You can find a list of high-profile changes in this release in the file "perldelta.pod" inside the distribution.

You can (or will shortly be able to) download the 5.13.7 release from:

    http://search.cpan.org/~bingos/perl-5.13.7/

The release's SHA1 signatures are:

dadc05c687c349852bd7bc8c46e45f36b351ef34 perl-5.13.7.tar.bz2
335bb465f072a86c342230ea2e0cc198b9c5c7a5 perl-5.13.7.tar.gz

This release corresponds to commit 57fc91ac6f in Perl's git repository. It is tagged as 'v5.13.7'.

We welcome your feedback on this release.

If Perl 5.13.7 works well for you, please use the 'perlthanks' tool included in this distribution to tell the all-volunteer development team how much you appreciate their work.

If you discover issues with Perl 5.13.7, please use the 'perlbug' tool included in this distribution to report them.

If you write software in Perl, it is particularly important that you test your software against development releases. While we strive to maintain source compatibility with prior stable versions of Perl wherever possible, it is always possible that a well-intentioned change can have unexpected consequences. If you spot a change in a development version which breaks your code, it's much more likely that we will be able to fix it before the next stable release. If you only test your code against stable releases of Perl, it may not be possible to undo a backwards-incompatible change which breaks your code.

Perl 5.13.7 represents approximately one month of development since Perl 5.13.6 and contains 73100 lines of changes across 518 files from 39 authors and committers.

Notable changes in this release:

• Array and hash container functions accept references
• Improved support for custom OPs
• Single term prototype
• Unicode Version 6.0 is now supported (mostly)
• y///r

Thank you to the following for contributing to this release:

Abhijit Menon-Sen, Abigail, Ben Morrow, Chas. J. Owens IV, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, David Golden, David Mitchell, Father Chrysostomos, Fingle Nark, Florian Ragwitz, George Greer, Grant McLean, H.Merijn Brand, Ian Goodacre, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Vincent, Karl Williamson, Lubomir Rintel, Marty Pauley, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Nicolas Kaiser, Niko Tyni, Peter John Acklam, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Shlomi Fish, Steffen Mueller, Steve Hay, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Tim Bunce, Todd Rinaldo, Tom Christiansen, Tom Hukins, Tony Cook, Yves Orton, Zefram and brian d foy

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.

Development versions of Perl are released monthly on or about the 20th of the month by a monthly "release manager". You can expect following upcoming releases:

• December 20 - Zefram
• January 20 - Jesse
• February 20 - Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
• March 20 - Florian Ragwitz

Enjoy!

Chris 'BinGOs' Williams