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I have added the appended to perl589delta.pod. I was intending to mention it in the release announcement too. Is it accurate? Nicholas Clark Change 34744 by nicholas@mouse-mill on 2008/11/05 23:54:13 A note about future maintenance plans for 5.8.x. Affected files ... ... //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perl589delta.pod#23 edit Differences ... ==== //depot/maint-5.8/perl/pod/perl589delta.pod#23 (text) ==== @@ -1979,10 +1979,18 @@ There are no known new bugs. However, programs that rely on bugs that have been fixed will have problems. -Also, many bug fixes present in 5.10.0 can't be backported to the 5.8.x +Also, many bug fixes present in 5.10.0 can't be back-ported to the 5.8.x branch, because they require changes that are binary incompatible, or because the code changes are too large and hence too risky to incorporate. +We have only limited volunteer labour, and the maintenance burden is getting +increasingly complex. Hence this will be the last significant release of the +5.8.x series. Any future releases of 5.8.x will likely only be to deal with +security issues, and platform build failures. Hence you should look to +migrating to 5.10.x, if you have not started already. Alternatively, if business +requirements constrain you to continue to use 5.8.x, you may wish to consider +commercial support from firms such as ActiveState. + =head1 Platform Specific Notes =head2 Win32Thread Next