Perl 5.8.9 released

“The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Perl Release 5.8.9, the ninth maintenance release of Perl 5.8. The CPAN ftp multiplexor will pick a mirror close to you, if you select either bz2 (11121414 bytes) or gz (13954888 bytes) here; or, you can choose your own from one of the 244 CPAN mirrors worldwide.“ shasums for the tarballs:
1097fbcd48ceccb2bc735d119c9db399a02a8ab9f7dc53e29e47e6a8d0d72e79 perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2
60dfe024286299b547895b6bc8f41c20c7e83d292f3a406e113ba1951aa38da1 perl-5.8.9.tar.gz

md5sums for the tarballs:
1cb52a76ce77fa300218da96577793ec perl-5.8.9.tar.bz2
2c8d78a61fb8c4c2c19fc514eb591500 perl-5.8.9.tar.gz

5.8.9 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. Please see the perldelta for the full details. Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly.

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