Perl 5.38.3 is now available!

When the Greeks came to Greece, they were not yet Greeks. Does that
sound strange? Yet it is true. For the fact is that when the tribes
from the north first invaded the lands they were to occupy, they
weren't yet a unified people.  They spoke different dialects and were
obedient to different chieftains.  They were tribes rather like the
Sioux or the Mohicans you read about in stories of the Wild West, and
had names such as the Dorians, Ionians and Aeolians.  Like the American
Indians they were warlike and brave, but in other ways they were quite
different.

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

We are in a state of felicity to announce version 38.3, the third
maintenance release of version 38 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.38.3 from your favourite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.38.3/

SHA256 digests for this release are:

  *perl-5.38.3.tar.gz
  8a8033859dd1d75eb0c9158eedd7384df1af6b46a2a4e85073b07e6cc7c5b873

  *perl-5.38.3.tar.xz
  da4c8ae1e91d60a52e02e0009618fc6aa62e1ac90b3f302969e2cf490c122dcc

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 5.38.3 represents approximately 14 months of development since Perl
5.38.2 and contains approximately 5,600 lines of changes across 62 files
from 22 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
were approximately 2,600 lines of changes to 20 .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 5.38.3:

Anton Voloshin, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, E.
Choroba, Elvin Aslanov, Graham Knop, James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge,
Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Masahiro Honma, Matthew Horsfall, Max
Maischein, Paul Evans, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Renee Baecker, Ricardo
Signes, Richard Leach, Steve Hay, Thibault Duponchelle, 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.

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

Steve Hay

• Perl 5.38.3 is now available! by Steve Hay via perl5-porters