Newbies and 5.8, 5.6.1...

[Alexandre Enkerli]

Well, I'm one of those newbies who upgraded to 5.8.0 for no real reason. Actually, my reasoning was that even-numbered versions were supposed to be stable and I had read some web page about someone's expectation that Jag would have 5.8.0. So I did the upgrade which was rather painless. Most modules seem to work fine except for some parts of the HTML bundle.
But can someone tell us, newbies, what we should expect in the transition to 5.8.0.
I guess the main reason a newbie will try to get newer versions is not to have to relearn everything right away. In fact, before I understood what it was, I thought about waiting for Perl6!
We newbies need more info...