“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 [...]

“Perl 5.8.9 Release Candidate 2 has been uploaded to CPAN. This is a maintenance release for perl 5.8.x, providing bug fixes and integrating module updates from CPAN. Download the source from ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/N/NW/NWCLARK/perl-5.8.9-RC2.tar.bz2 (or as .tar.gz ); read what’s changed in perldelta.pod. ”
Please report any problems you encounter, especially bugs introduced since 5.8.8. Whenever possible, [...]

olegm writes “The Minneapolis Perl Mongers are organizing a one-day Perl workshop in Minneapolis on February 07, 2009, and I hope some of you can attend. We’re also working on a hackathon the day after and a Perl class taught by Brian d Foy of Stonehenge Consulting on the day before. These extras will be [...]

A major problem with the officially distributed version of Perl on Red Hat Enterprise Linux has led to a firestorm of complaints among developers. The problem, which also manifests itself on some versions of the Fedora and CentOS Linux distributions, means that some programs will take more than 100 (yes, one hundred) times longer to [...]

The Perl Foundation grants committee received 15 proposals during the third call for grant proposals for 2008. These proposals are published for public discussion. You are invited to comment each proposal about its relevance and objectives.
During the month of July we received the following grant proposals:
* Squatting On Everything
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As reported recently, Adam has made progress with his Perl on a Stick project. In fact, he’s made enough progress that we’re able to offer 1G USB drives loaded with Strawberry Perl here at OSCON for $15. We have them at the TPF Booth, so stop by and get one. http://news.perlfoundation.org/2008/07/perl_on_a_stick_at_oscon.html
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jmcada writes “The White Camel Awards for 2008 were just presented at OSCON. This year’s winners are Jacinta Richardson, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, and Gabor Szabo. The winners have all made significant contributions to the Perl community. Congratulations to the winners!”
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I was told last week that my current contract won’t be extended when it finishes at the end of this month. I’m obviously looking for a new contract, but I’m also investigating another option. I’m thinking of running some commercial, public Perl courses in London at the end of July. The plan is basically that [...]

Every year, at OSCON, the White Camels are presented. If you look at the previous winners, you’ll notice that these are mostly unsung heroes, like previous awardee Eric Cholet, the human moderator of so many Perl mailing lists, or Jay Hannah, one of the people running pm.org (if you ever created/maintained a pm group, chances [...]

YAPC::Europe 2008 in Copenhagen is fast approaching, and the deadline for proposals for next year’s conference is not too far away (June 30th), but I’ve been thinking of events even further in the future. With the Perl Monger census that Dave Cross is organising, I’m hoping it might identify some of the groups that could [...]

Today Tom “Spot” Callaway of RedHat mailed perl5-porters to say:
Today, perl 5.10.0 went into Fedora rawhide, which will become Fedora 9.
A few additional changes were committed with this release:

Fedora is now tracking all of its patches in patchlevel.h
The sitedir and sitearch directories are now located under /usr/local, to make it very clear that [...]

The deadline for Google’s summer of code applications from mentor organizations is fast approaching and I need your help to keep perl from getting left behind like it did last year. The wiki page has links where you can post your ideas for students and signup to be a mentor. Please post your ideas [...]

“In two weeks (Feb 29th), the Dutch Perl Workshop will take place in the StayOkay Youth Hostel in Arnhem, The Netherlands. This meeting is primarily targeted on Perl users in The Netherlands and Belgium.
The program is now available, and by accident about half of the talks are in English. So even if you are not [...]

This week has seen a turmoil of emotions surrounding Perl 6. (Just take a look at the last articles here at use.perl and perlbuzz.) This entry is just to gladly announce that in this very moment (Dec 28 2007 18:30 GMT-0200) three microarticles of the series on Perl 6 operators are in The Hot 25 [...]

In preparation to my talk on the Israeli Perl Workshop next week I have written 4 micro articles about some of the new features in Perl 5.10 What’s new in Perl 5.10? say, //, state Smart Matching in Perl 5.10 Switching in Perl 5.10 Regular Expressions in Perl 5.10
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After over a year since the last release, it is with equal parts of pride and relief that I present Strawberry Perl 5.10, the next major release of the Vanilla Perl Project’s flagship Perl distribution. This release represents the beginning of the third generation of release code. The first generation was a simple build script, [...]

On December 18, 1987, Larry Wall released Perl 1 to the public. That means today is the end of Perl’s 20th year. On Perl’s 16th birthday, Richard Clamp gave us Perl 1. Rumor has it that this birthday, Perl5Porters is giving us Perl 5.10, the best Perl 5 yet.
The Windy City Perl Mongers are getting [...]

Last week, the Perl Foundation announced that the Mozilla Foundation has awarded a development grant to Patrick Michaud to work on the Perl 6 on Parrot compiler. Thank you, Mozilla Foundation (especially Zak Greant and Frank Hecker.)
This grant is particularly important because it’s the largest grant of money to any Perl 6 hacker in several [...]

Greg McCarroll writes “London Perl Workshop 2007 So it’s that time of year again, the nights are growing long, the mornings are growing coldand people who should know better once again decide to organize a conference. That’s rightit’s time for this year’s London Perl Workshop. So let’s get down to the details, because wehaven’t much [...]

Yeah, me too. But I’m a capitalist, so I like to see what people are writing checks for. As I’m fed up with the various unsubstantiated claims, I’ve whipped up a little graphic of job posts on Dice that will hopefully cheer you up. I’ll try to keep it updated regularly. If nothing else, it’ll [...]