Perl 5.39.9 Released With New Logical Xor Operator
Perl 5.39.9 released with new ^^ operator, CPAN security threat eliminated, and Perl community urged to address hate mail accountability.
Originally published at Perl Weekly 661 Hi there! Perl 5.39.9 was released including the new ^^ operator. It is only a development release, but I'd like to encourage you to give it a try and give feedback to the developers. There was some nefarious activity on CPAN. Someone re-uploaded perl-5-38.2. It was reported and the security team quickly eliminated the threat. I was wondering if I should write about the hate mails I received: one for myself as Jew (my ethnicity) triggered by what I wrote two weeks ago and one on behalf of Mohammed as a Muslim (his religion) triggered by what he wrote las...