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Perl 5.37.1 is now available
Good afternoon! We're gonna have a great jump today!
Okay, crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall.
There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out.
Remember: Rip it! Roll it! And punch it!

-- Squirt, Finding Nemo

We are humbled to announce version 5.37.1,
the 2nd development release of version 5.37 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.37.1 from your
favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/WOLFSAGE/perl-5.37.1

SHA256 digests for this release are:

912018a0e84ce8a58f80089e7cb8659ded0c268c233aeb061af0c0fc8cafbce6
perl-5.37.1.tar.gz
284e7ff1c190dca30d5838bb4ea390dcde3baf21b6b21ec157f9168266666335
perl-5.37.1.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/WOLFSAGE/perl-5.37.1/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.37.1 represents approximately 3 weeks of development since Perl
5.37.0 and contains approximately 75,000 lines of changes across 240 files
from 28 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 30,000 lines of changes to 150 .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 5.37.1:

Brian Greenfield, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Clemens Wasser, Dan Book, David
Mitchell, Ed Sabol, Elvin Aslanov, Graham Knop, Hugo van der Sanden, James E
Keenan, jkahrman, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Mark Jason Dominus,
Matthew Horsfall, Mohammad S Anwar, Neil Bowers, Nicholas Clark, Nicolas
Mendoza, Nicolas R, Paul Evans, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sidney
Markowitz, Sisyphus, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.

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 release version 5.37.2 on July 20th, 2022.

The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2023.

Cheers,

-- Matthew Horsfall (alh)
Re: Perl 5.37.1 is now available [ In reply to ]
On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 5:14 AM Matthew Horsfall (alh) <wolfsage@gmail.com>
wrote:

> ....
> We are humbled to announce version 5.37.1,
> the 2nd development release of version 5.37 of Perl 5.
> ....


Thank you Matthew.
Unfortunately, this source is (like all previously released perl sources)
broken on Windows for mingw-w64 compilers that use version 9 (released
about 14 months ago) or later of the mingw runtime. (No problems that I
know of if the runtime version is less than 9.)

This, of course, is not your fault - nor is it the fault of p5p, as the
fix needs to be made in a dual-life module, and then pushed to blead, and
is therefore outside of p5p's direct control.
It's actually more my fault for not having pursued this matter with the
energy it deserves.
This post of mine is a part of my effort to right that wrong - and I'll
post a similar response to all future devel releases for as long as the
issue remains unresolved.

Matthew, I think it's a pity that you have put so much time and effort into
producing this release, only to learn that it is broken in this way.
And I apologize for my previous lack of action, which is partly to blame.

The proposed patch to fix this issue (comprising just 2 lines of code) is
at the end of the ticket at
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=142390.
Hopefully this issue will be resolved before 5.37.2 is released .... but I
have absolutely no control over that.

Cheers,
Rob
Re: Perl 5.37.1 is now available [ In reply to ]
On Mon, Jun 20, 2022, at 15:13, Matthew Horsfall (alh) wrote:
> Good afternoon! We're gonna have a great jump today!
> Okay, crank a hard cutback as you hit the wall.
> There's a screaming bottom curve, so watch out.
> Remember: Rip it! Roll it! And punch it!

Nice.

Thanks, Matthew! I've just *finally* installed 5.37.1 on my laptop! I look forward to upgrading everything and finding out nothing broke!

--
rjbs