Perl 5.39.7 released

[Max Maischein]

On the screen the image of a frail-looking bigwig from Yale.
Between a mahogany desk and a wall filled with thick
books of all colors, he warns uus that the underpinnings
of the entire planet rely on the internet.
Food and water supply, electricity grid, defense systems...
"If the failure continues fo a few days, we go back to the
nineteen nineties. A couple extra weeks, and we are back to
the nineteenth century."

-- PJ Caldas, The Girl From Wudang

We are pleased to announce version 5.39.7,
the eighth development release of version 5.39 of Perl.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.39.7 from your
favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/CORION/perl-5.39.7/

SHA256 digest for this release is:

c85f9ef13fa674839b076d81edb45242a5ddff3df4b111f764a7abe72edd83eb
perl-5.39.7.tar.gz

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 at

https://metacpan.org/release/CORION/perl-5.39.7/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.39.7 represents approximately 3 weeks of development since Perl
5.39.6 and contains approximately 7,300 lines of changes across 160 files
from 16 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
approximately 5,600 lines of changes to 79 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.

Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to have
contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.39.7:

Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, David Mitchell, Elvin Aslanov,
H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Mathias
Kende, Max Maischein, Peter John Acklam, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Todd
Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Yves Orton, Дилян Палаузов.

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 version 5.39.8 on 2024-02-20.
The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of
2024.

Greetings,
Max Maischein