Perl 5.33.4 is now available!

We are happy to announce version 33.4 the fifth development release of version 33 of Perl 5.

You will soon be able to download Perl 5.33.4 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/TOMHUKINS/perl-5.33.4/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

 666d31148f56ca6ba9810b555d32ab4b62ecc1bf   perl-5.33.4.tar.gz
 06157c1901c28abb10b6269a64ea9a7fdf65a891   perl-5.33.4.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 at:

https://metacpan.org/pod/release/TOMHUKINS/perl-5.33.4/pod/perldelta.pod

Perl 5.33.4 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.33.3 and contains approximately 6,900 lines of changes across 340 files from 16 authors.

Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 4,200 lines of changes to 260 .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 5.33.4:

Ben Cornett, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Giovanni Tataranni, James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Marcus Holland-Moritz, Nicolas R., Richard Leach, Scott Baker, Steve Hay, TAKAI Kousuke, Tom Hukins, 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.

We expect to release version 33.5 on 20 December 2020. The next major stable release of Perl should appear in the first half of 2021.

Happy Perling,
Tom