Perl 5 Release Policy: New Features And Improvements
Perl's release policy explained: Maintenance releases (even numbers, e.g. v5.38) are mostly production-ready, while development releases (odd numbers, e.g. v5.41) introduce new features and experimental changes.
Originally published at Perl Weekly 708 Hi there, There are many interpretations of what it means to grow? I am using the term for new features. We get lots of improvements and new features with every release of Perl. In v5.38, the experimental class feature was rolled out in core. In the next maintenance release of Perl v5.40, new field attribute :reader was added and many other improvements. The next thing, we all waited was for field attribute :writer. Luckily it is already part of development release v5.41.7. I made this gist demonstrating the core changes. If you are new to Perl Release P...