Perl 5.17.5 is now available

  Neither of them noticed the pair of polka-dotted knickers hiding
  behind the ventilation duct overhead, listening patiently and
  recording everything.

    -- Charles Stross, Singularity Sky


We are pleased to announce Perl 5.17.5, the sixth development release of
Perl 5.17.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.17.5 from your favorite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/FLORA/perl-5.17.5/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

 c524153311f4a3c16fe188809d07fcc6475274f4   perl-5.17.5.tar.gz
 2d1be9a25f5c34d891cf2cee772f9b1c79b08975   perl-5.17.5.tar.bz2

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 5.17.5 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
5.17.4 and contains approximately 17,000 lines of changes across 310
files from 32 authors.

Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to
have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.17.5:

Aaron Crane, Adrian M. Enache, Andy Dougherty, Brad Gilbert, Chris
'BinGOs' Williams, Colin Kuskie, Craig A. Berry, Daniel Dragan, David
Golden, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Eric Brine, Father
Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Jerry
D. Hedden, Jesse Luehrs, Karl Williamson, Nicholas Clark, Niko Tyni,
Paul Johnson, Peter Martini, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Ruslan
Zakirov, Sawyer X, Smylers, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, 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 F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.

We expect to release Perl 5.17.6 on November 20.  The next major stable
release of Perl 5, version 5.18.0, should appear in May 2013.

• Perl 5.17.5 is now available by Florian Ragwitz
• Re: Perl 5.17.5 is now available by David Golden
• Re: Perl 5.17.5 is now available by Ricardo Signes