Nicholas Clark has published the first Release Candidate for the upcoming 5.8.8 maintenance release. You can pick up the perl-5.8.8-RC1.tar.bz2 (or perl-5.8.8-RC1.tar.bz2) tarballs from http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/, or, better still, from a CPAN mirror near you.
If you want to take it for a spin to test out your own modules, remember to add a prefix to the installation, with something like Configure -Dprefix=/home/me/perltest, otherwise it will overwrite your current perl installation. Which is probably fine, but possibly unsettling.
Please take it for a spin, and help ensure that this release is of the best possible quality.
• another intruder with the mooring in the heart of the Perl
Oh my god, finally. But hey I moved away from the fucker, too late. And I don't like those shit who broke their promises of "more frequent release". I am not saying more frequent release is really needed. But hey, don't fart when you don't have gas, lol
It should have been released before so many people got pissed off. Well, something is better than nothing. If you cannot find a spinner, even an old hooker will do it.