ActiveState 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/perl5140delta.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!
