A new version of Perl, 5.14, was officially released on 14th May following the successful test period, including the testing of release candidates. This is the first release of Perl 5 using the new annual schedule. There are a number of enhancements and alterations in this version, a full list of changes can be found at

Below is an overview of the programs that were financially supported by The Perl Foundation in 2010. Programs are roughly broken up into 3 categories: Events, Marketing, and Development. Perl events The Perl Foundation supported four conferences in 2010. Those conferences were: The North American Yet Another Perl Conference Frozen Perl, The Pittsburgh Perl Workshop, and The Perl Oasis. Each event is expected to be self-sustaining through program fees and

Jesse Vincent writes: It gives me great pleasure to announce Perl 5.12.2, the third stable release of Perl 5.12. Shortly, you will be able to download Perl 5.12.2 from your favorite CPAN mirror or from: "http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/":http://search.cpan.org/~jesse/perl-5.12.2/ SHA1 digests for this release are: 75dbbdfa5bf8d4fc813503253e2b58486fa5a4eb perl-5.12.2.tar.bz2 c157f214a93ce20fc06dc9d9c902c05ad1327cb1 perl-5.12.2.tar.gz This release contains minor bug fixes and updates of several core modules, as well as minor documentation updates. It should be fully backward compatible

Yesterday, Jesse Vincent announced the release of Perl 5.12.0. This is an exciting time for Perl 5 with development switching from feature-driven releases to time-based ones. You can download this release from http://search.cpan.org/dist/perl-5.12.0/ or your local CPAN mirror. A complete list of the changes can be found in perl5120delta. We would like to thank Jesse and the development team for all their hard work and we look forward to seeing

It is with considerable pleasure that TPF announces today a Perl development grant to David Mitchell for the release of Perl 5.10.1. David's work through this grant will be: The vetting and application of 400+ outstanding patches to the Perl 5.10 codebase; A rework of the "smart match" feature semantics to address known issues; Packaging of a Perl 5.10.1 release distribution. The funding amount of this grant is USD $5000,

Google Summer of Code 2008 Wrap Up written by Eric Wilhelm: Google's Summer of Code 2008 is wrapping up now and I'm very pleased with how well The Perl Foundation's students and mentors have done. The five projects which survived the halfway point have all finished with great results. Many thanks to all of the mentors and students as well as everyone in the community who helped or supported the

Here's my first Help Wanted entry. SOAP::Lite needs your help. Byrne Reese has posted a good assessment of the state of the SOAP::Lite Read on for details. To start, SOAP::Lite works. That is, it works well for easy things and you can get it to work for complicated things. But it needs help and it's going to need more help in the near future. SOAP is becoming more and more

I often hear this: "I'd get involved in Perl, but all the cool stuff is done and there's no room to make a name for myself. No one needs another DBI module..." or even: "All the cool kids are using because they don't have CPAN yet and they can become the uber-programmer for the cool modules." Well, to these I say, "Nonsense!" There is a ton of work to be

December brings three different online calendars for the Perl community. First, the traditional Perl Advent Calendar informs you about a snazzy module every day until the 25th, with requisite RSS feed for those of you practicing one of the three virtues this holiday season. Next, for Catalyst users, or those who'd like to start, the Catalyst Advent Calendar brings a daily tip for those interested in this increasingly popular framework.