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Perl 5.34.0-RC2 is now available!
No one is born hating another person because of the color of his
skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate,
and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love
comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite.

-- Nelson Mandela, The Long Walk to Freedom

We are glad to announce the second RC, RC2, of Perl 5.34.0.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.34.0-RC2 from your favorite
CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.34.0-RC2/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

56cb08ed2c1aee318f75d022469d40ba0298a012 perl-5.34.0-RC2.tar.gz
4d6e9e5644d88b7090c967e1e46cb2821a2cbe45 perl-5.34.0-RC2.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/pod/release/XSAWYERX/perl-5.34.0-RC2/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.34.0-RC2 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl
5.32.0 and contains approximately 280,000 lines of changes across 2,100
files from 77 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 150,000 lines of changes to 1,300 .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 5.34.0-RC2:

Aaron Crane, Adam Hartley, Andy Dougherty, Ben Cornett, Branislav
Zahradník, brian d foy, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Christian Walde
(Mithaldu), Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Book, Daniel
Böhmer, Daniel Laügt, Dan Kogai, David Cantrell, David Mitchell, Dominic
Hamon, E. Choroba, Ed J, Eric Herman, Eric Lindblad, Eugene Alvin Villar,
Felipe Gasper, Giovanni Tataranni, Graham Knop, Graham Ollis, Hauke D,
H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, Ichinose Shogo, Ivan Baidakou, Jae
Bradley, James E Keenan, Jason McIntosh, jkahrman, John Karr, John Lightsey,
Kang-min Liu, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Keith Thompson, Leon
Timmermans, Marc Reisner, Marcus Holland-Moritz, Max Maischein, Michael G
Schwern, Nicholas Clark, Nicolas R., Paul Evans, Petr Písa?, raiph, Renee
Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Romano, Ryan Voots, Samanta Navarro,
Samuel Thibault, Sawyer X, Scott Baker, Sergey Poznyakoff, Sevan Janiyan,
Shlomi Fish, Sisyphus, Sizhe Zhao, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Thibault
Duponchelle, Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz Konojacki, Tom Hukins, Tom Stellard, Tony
Cook, vividsnow, Yves Orton, Zakariyya Mughal, ??????
????????.

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.

Barring any additional RCs, we expect 5.34.0 to be out around May 20th.

Stay safe,
Sawyer X.