Perl 5.40.1 is now available!

At the time of Alexander the Great, the Roman empire was no more than a
little patch of land in the heart of Italy, and Rome a tiny city of
twisting streets within strong walls.  But Rome's inhabitants were a
proud people.  They loved recounting stories of the greatness of their
past and were convinced of a great future.  Their history, as they told
it, went back to ancient Troy.  A Trojan named Aeneas fled to Italy.
His descendants were the twin brothers Romulus and Remus, sons of Mars,
the god of war, who were suckled and raised in the forest by a wild
she-wolf.  Romulus, so the myth goes, founded Rome.

  -- E. H. Gombrich, trans. Caroline Mustill, "A Little History of the
     World"

We are in a state of felicity to announce version 40.1, the first
maintenance release of version 40 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.40.1 from your favourite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.1/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

  *perl-5.40.1.tar.gz
  02f8c45bb379ed0c3de7514fad48c714fd46be8f0b536bfd5320050165a1ee26

  *perl-5.40.1.tar.xz
  dfa20c2eef2b4af133525610bbb65dd13777ecf998c9c5b1ccf0d308e732ee3f

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.

Perl 5.40.1 represents approximately 7 months of development since Perl
5.40.0 and contains approximately 5,600 lines of changes across 54 files
from 15 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
were approximately 1,800 lines of changes to 19 .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 5.40.1:

Andrei Horodniceanu, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, E. Choroba, Graham Knop,
James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Masahiro
Honma, Max Maischein, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Richard Leach, Steve Hay,
Thibault Duponchelle, Tony Cook.

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.

The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of
2025.

Steve Hay

• Perl 5.40.1 is now available! by Steve Hay via perl5-porters