Perl 5.22.3-RC1 is now available!

  The place we came to, to descend the brink from,
    Was sheer crag; and there was a Thing there - making,
    All told, a prospect any eye would shrink from.

  Like the great landslide that rushed downward, shaking
    The bank of Adige on this side Trent,
    (Whether through faulty shoring or the earth's quaking)

  So that the rock, down from the summit rent
    Far as the plain, lies strewn, and one might crawl
    From top to bottom by that unsure descent,

  Such was the precipice; and there we spied,
    Topping the cleft that split the rocky wall,
    That which was wombed in the false heifer's side,

  The infamy of Crete, stretched out a-sprawl;
    And seeing us, he gnawed himself, like one
    Inly devoured with spite and burning gall.

    -- Dante Alighieri, trans. Dorothy L. Sayers, "The Divine Comedy",
       Cantica I: Hell, Canto XII

We are delighted to announce the first release candidate of version
22.3, the third maintenance release of version 22 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.22.3-RC1 from your favourite
CPAN mirror or find it at:

  https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.22.3-RC1/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

  7e1e3c297e457b19228667076b30f303d6dbcd54  perl-5.22.3-RC1.tar.gz
  e912782cf0d41009acd568e0cb8aa469128c600d  perl-5.22.3-RC1.tar.bz2
  ecb8dc6349a6914be5dd42a3397395ead4b927d6  perl-5.22.3-RC1.tar.xz

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.

***Please, please, please*** test your code against perl-5.22.3-RC1.
This is your last chance to point out any critical regressions before
v5.22.3 ships "for real," and we'd rather fix things for v5.22.3 than
for v5.22.4!

The final v5.22.3 is expected to ship within the next fortnight.

Steve Hay

• Perl 5.22.3-RC1 is now available! by Steve Hay via perl5-porters