ActiveState announces ActivePerl 5.14.0
am 17.05.2011 01:56:44 von Jan DuboisActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.14.0 build 1400,
a complete, ready-to-install binary distribution of Perl.
Builds for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux are made freely available.
Builds for Solaris, HP-UX and AIX are available with ActivePerl Business
Edition. For detailed information or to download these releases, see:
http://www.activestate.com/activeperl
What's new in ActivePerl
========================
ActivePerl 5.14 is now based on the 5.14.0 release. You can read about all
the changes since Perl 5.12.0 in the perldelta document:
http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.14/lib/pods/perl514 0delta.html
Some highlights of 5.14 are:
- Improved Unicode support, especially for regular expressions. You
can now explicitly request ASCII/Unicode/locale semantics with the
/a, /u, and /l regexp modifiers.
- The s/// substitution operator has a non-destructive /r option. For
example this statement will not modify the elements of @orig:
my @copy = map { s/cat/dog/r } @orig;
- Exception handling is more reliable; $@ doesn't get clobbered by
destructors anymore.
Getting Started
===============
Whether you're a first-time user or a long-time fan, our free resources
will help you get the most from ActivePerl.
Mailing list archives:
http://code.activestate.com/lists/activeperl/
Supported Platforms
===================
ActivePerl is available for the following platforms:
- Windows/x86 (32-bit)
- Windows/x64 (64-bit) (aka "AMD64")
- Mac OS X
- Linux/x86 (32 bit)
- Linux/x86_64 (64-bit) (aka "AMD64")
- Solaris/SPARC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business Edition only)
- Solaris/x86 (32-bit) (Business Edition only)
- HP-UX/PA-RISC (32-bit) (Business Edition only)
- AIX/PowerPC (32-bit) (Business Edition only)
More information about the Business Edition can be found here:
http://www.activestate.com/business-edition
Custom builds are available in the Enterprise Edition:
http://www.activestate.com/enterprise-edition
Feedback
========
Everyone is encouraged to participate in making Perl an even better
language.
For bugs related to ActiveState use:
http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePerl &version=1400
For bugs related directly to Perl please use the 'perlbug' utility.
Enjoy!