perl is now perl 5.8.0 with MAINT18379 patch
The real issue is often the fact that vendors ship perl releases that were never released, i.e. taking some release and adding a bunch of patches to it. so when you think you have 5.8.0 on RedHat most of time you don't, since usually it's 5.8.0 + some patches. p5p never intended to deliver those half-baked products to you.
Luckily with the current change in the perl release policy (release a new version every 3 months or so), distros have little excuse not to give their users real releases without adding any patches from the post-release. 5.8.4 will be released somewhere in April.
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