See the announcement here: http://nntp.x.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/82678
5.8.1 includes the bug fixes and enhancements that OpenVMS Engineering performed on the hp-supported 5.6.1 kit (thanks to Scott Lepage), as well as a host of other improvements. See [.pod]perldelta.pod in the distribution. There has been a voluminous increase in the number of regression tests in the 5.8.x time frame: there are now over 75,000 tests. All pass successfully with default configurations of recent release candidates on OpenVMS Alpha 7.2 or later. OpenVMS VAX and older versions of OpenVMS Alpha are likely to have a handful of test failures, which generally just means that a small subset of features are unavailable. If the timing of prior releases is any indication, the latest OpenVMS freeware CD probably went golden master yesterday :-(. But just in case that hasn't happened yet, I've cc'd the folks who were working on getting Perl included. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad Leithauser
