The Emacs perl mode (emacs/cperl-mode.el) has been updated to version 4.31.
+=head2 perlbc "activated"
+
+The long-dormant perl bytecompiler has been added to the list of
+installed utilities since the bytecompiler backend has been improved.
+The bytecompiler is still very much experimental, though.
+
=head2 perlbug
Perlbug is now much more robust. It also sends the bug report to perl.org,