Steve++ !
Thank you for persevering, Steve. :)
On 07/15/2017 07:34 PM, Steve Hay via perl5-porters wrote:
> Then Little Red Riding Hood said, 'But Grandma,
> what a lovely great big furry coat you have on.'
> 'That's wrong!' cried Wolf. 'Have you forgot
> 'To tell me what BIG TEETH I've got?
> 'Ah well, no matter what you say,
> 'I'm going to eat you anyway.'
> The small girl smiles. One eyelid flickers.
> She whips a pistol from her knickers.
> She aims it at the creature's head
> And bang bang bang, she shoots him dead.
>
> A few weeks later, in the wood,
> I came across Miss Riding Hood.
> But what a change! No cloak of red,
> No silly hood upon her head.
> She said, 'Hello, and do please note
> 'My lovely furry WOLFSKIN COAT.'
>
> -- Roald Dahl, "Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf"
>
> We are relieved to announce version 22.4, the fourth maintenance release
> of version 22 of Perl 5.
>
> You will soon be able to download Perl 5.22.4 from your favourite CPAN
> mirror or find it at:
>
> https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.22.4/
>
> SHA1 digests for this release are:
>
> fd79af20e6454d1bb5e5e6ac4774a1e295d4d794 perl-5.22.4.tar.gz
> 97aed9044239473974586a6ecfcd87a72eae3273 perl-5.22.4.tar.bz2
> 53d85affaeb84ed859c2710c3e4330314b5115b5 perl-5.22.4.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.
>
> Perl 5.22.4 represents approximately 9 months of development since Perl
> 5.22.3 and contains approximately 4,400 lines of changes across 240
> files from 20 authors.
>
> Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
> were approximately 2,200 lines of changes to 170 .pm, .t, .c and .h
> files.
>
> 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 5.22.3:
>
> Aaron Crane, Abigail, Alex Vandiver, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chad Granum,
> Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, David Mitchell, Father
> Chrysostomos, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Karen Etheridge, Karl
> Williamson, Matthew Horsfall, Niko Tyni, Ricardo Signes, Sawyer X,
> Stevan Little, Steve Hay, Tony Cook.
>
> 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 AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
>
> The next major stable release of Perl 5, version 28.0, should appear in
> May 2018, with version 29.0 released around the same time.
>
> Steve Hay