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Perl 5.40 Programming Language Released, Here’s What’s New

Posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jun 11, 2024,

updated Jun 11, 2024

Quoting: Perl 5.40 Programming Language Released, Here's What's New —

he just-released brand-new Perl 5.40 brings core enhancements, security updates, and changes to the popular scripting language, building on its robust features from the previous 5.38 version.

This update introduces new functionalities, optimizes existing ones, and addresses significant security vulnerabilities. Here’s about that in more detail..

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perl v5.40.0 released

Version 5.40.0 of the Perl language has been released. "Perl 5.40.0 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl 5.38.0 and contains approximately 160,000 lines of changes across 1,500 files from 75 authors". Significant changes include a new __CLASS__ keyword, a :reader: attribute for field variables, a new "^^" logical-XOR operator (because two of those were not enough), moving "try/catch" out of the experimental category, and more; see this page for lots of details.