-=pod
-
=head1 NAME
perlhist - the Perl history records
-=for RCS
-#
-# $Id: perlhist.pod,v 1.48 1998/08/03 08:50:12 jhi Exp $
-#
-=end RCS
-
=head1 DESCRIPTION
This document aims to record the Perl source code releases.
Larry Wall, Andy Dougherty, Tom Christiansen, Charles Bailey, Nick
Ing-Simmons, Chip Salzenberg, Tim Bunce, Malcolm Beattie, Gurusamy
-Sarathy, Graham Barr.
+Sarathy, Graham Barr, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Hugo van der Sanden,
+Michael Schwern, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Nicholas Clark, Richard Clamp,
+Leon Brocard.
=head2 PUMPKIN?
1.001..10 1988-Jan-30
1.011..14 1988-Feb-02
+ Schwern 1.0.15 2002-Dec-18 Modernization
+ Richard 1.0.16 2003-Dec-18
Larry 2.000 1988-Jun-05
3.037 1990-Oct-20
3.040 1990-Nov-10
3.041 1990-Nov-13
- 3.042..43 1990-Jan-??
+ 3.042..43 1991-Jan-??
3.044 1991-Jan-12
Larry 4.000 1991-Mar-21
5.000alpha4 1993-???-??
5.000alpha5 1993-???-??
5.000alpha6 1994-Mar-18
- 5.003alpha7 1994-Mar-25
+ 5.000alpha7 1994-Mar-25
Andy 5.000alpha8 1994-Apr-04
Larry 5.000alpha9 1994-May-05 ext appears.
- 5.000alpha10 1994-???-??
- 5.000alpha11 1994-???-??
+ 5.000alpha10 1994-Jun-11
+ 5.000alpha11 1994-Jul-01
Andy 5.000a11a 1994-Jul-07 To fit 14.
5.000a11b 1994-Jul-14
5.000a11c 1994-Jul-19
5.000a11d 1994-Jul-22
- Larry 5.000alpha12 1994-???-??
+ Larry 5.000alpha12 1994-Aug-04
Andy 5.000a12a 1994-Aug-08
5.000a12b 1994-Aug-15
5.000a12c 1994-Aug-22
5.000a12f 1994-Aug-24
5.000a12g 1994-Aug-24
5.000a12h 1994-Aug-24
- Larry 5.000beta1 1994-???-??
- Andy 5.000b1a 1994-???-??
+ Larry 5.000beta1 1994-Aug-30
+ Andy 5.000b1a 1994-Sep-06
Larry 5.000beta2 1994-Sep-14 Core slushified.
Andy 5.000b2a 1994-Sep-14
5.000b2b 1994-Sep-17
5.000b3f 1994-Sep-30
5.000b3g 1994-Oct-04
Andy 5.000b3h 1994-Oct-07
+ Larry? 5.000gamma 1994-Oct-13?
- Larry 5.000 1994-Oct-18
+ Larry 5.000 1994-Oct-17
Andy 5.000a 1994-Dec-19
5.000b 1995-Jan-18
5.000j 1995-Feb-07
5.000k 1995-Feb-11
5.000l 1995-Feb-21
- 5.000m 1995-???-??
+ 5.000m 1995-Feb-28
5.000n 1995-Mar-07
+ 5.000o 1995-Mar-13?
Larry 5.001 1995-Mar-13
5.001m 1995-Jul-02 Very stable.
5.001n 1995-Oct-31 Very unstable.
5.002beta1 1995-Nov-21
- 5.002b1a 1995-Nov-??
+ 5.002b1a 1995-Dec-04
5.002b1b 1995-Dec-04
5.002b1c 1995-Dec-04
5.002b1d 1995-Dec-04
Chip 5.004 1997-May-15 A major maintenance release.
- Tim 5.004_01 1997-Jun-13 The 5.004 maintenance track.
+ Tim 5.004_01-t1 1997-???-?? The 5.004 maintenance track.
+ 5.004_01-t2 1997-Jun-11 aka perl5.004m1t2
+ 5.004_01 1997-Jun-13
+ 5.004_01_01 1997-Jul-29 aka perl5.004m2t1
+ 5.004_01_02 1997-Aug-01 aka perl5.004m2t2
+ 5.004_01_03 1997-Aug-05 aka perl5.004m2t3
5.004_02 1997-Aug-07
+ 5.004_02_01 1997-Aug-12 aka perl5.004m3t1
+ 5.004_03-t2 1997-Aug-13 aka perl5.004m3t2
5.004_03 1997-Sep-05
+ 5.004_04-t1 1997-Sep-19 aka perl5.004m4t1
+ 5.004_04-t2 1997-Sep-23 aka perl5.004m4t2
+ 5.004_04-t3 1997-Oct-10 aka perl5.004m4t3
+ 5.004_04-t4 1997-Oct-14 aka perl5.004m4t4
5.004_04 1997-Oct-15
- 5.004m5t1 1998-Mar-04 Maintenance Trials (for 5.004_05).
- 5.004_04-m2 1997-May-01
+ 5.004_04-m1 1998-Mar-04 (5.004m5t1) Maint. trials for 5.004_05.
+ 5.004_04-m2 1998-May-01
5.004_04-m3 1998-May-15
5.004_04-m4 1998-May-19
- 5.004_04-MT5 1998-Jul-21
+ 5.004_05-MT5 1998-Jul-21
+ 5.004_05-MT6 1998-Oct-09
+ 5.004_05-MT7 1998-Nov-22
+ 5.004_05-MT8 1998-Dec-03
+ Chip 5.004_05-MT9 1999-Apr-26
+ 5.004_05 1999-Apr-29
Malcolm 5.004_50 1997-Sep-09 The 5.005 development track.
5.004_51 1997-Oct-02
Sarathy 5.005_01 1998-Jul-27 The 5.005 maintenance track.
5.005_02-T1 1998-Aug-02
- 5.005_02 1998-Aug-
- Graham 5.005_03 1998-
-
- Sarathy 5.005_50 1998-Jul-26 The 5.006 development track.
+ 5.005_02-T2 1998-Aug-05
+ 5.005_02 1998-Aug-08
+ Graham 5.005_03-MT1 1998-Nov-30
+ 5.005_03-MT2 1999-Jan-04
+ 5.005_03-MT3 1999-Jan-17
+ 5.005_03-MT4 1999-Jan-26
+ 5.005_03-MT5 1999-Jan-28
+ 5.005_03-MT6 1999-Mar-05
+ 5.005_03 1999-Mar-28
+ Leon 5.005_04-RC1 2004-Feb-05
+ 5.005_04-RC2 2004-Feb-18
+ 5.005_04 2004-Feb-23
+
+ Sarathy 5.005_50 1998-Jul-26 The 5.6 development track.
+ 5.005_51 1998-Aug-10
+ 5.005_52 1998-Sep-25
+ 5.005_53 1998-Oct-31
+ 5.005_54 1998-Nov-30
+ 5.005_55 1999-Feb-16
+ 5.005_56 1999-Mar-01
+ 5.005_57 1999-May-25
+ 5.005_58 1999-Jul-27
+ 5.005_59 1999-Aug-02
+ 5.005_60 1999-Aug-02
+ 5.005_61 1999-Aug-20
+ 5.005_62 1999-Oct-15
+ 5.005_63 1999-Dec-09
+ 5.5.640 2000-Feb-02
+ 5.5.650 2000-Feb-08 beta1
+ 5.5.660 2000-Feb-22 beta2
+ 5.5.670 2000-Feb-29 beta3
+ 5.6.0-RC1 2000-Mar-09 Release candidate 1.
+ 5.6.0-RC2 2000-Mar-14 Release candidate 2.
+ 5.6.0-RC3 2000-Mar-21 Release candidate 3.
+ 5.6.0 2000-Mar-22
+
+ Sarathy 5.6.1-TRIAL1 2000-Dec-18 The 5.6 maintenance track.
+ 5.6.1-TRIAL2 2001-Jan-31
+ 5.6.1-TRIAL3 2001-Mar-19
+ 5.6.1-foolish 2001-Apr-01 The "fools-gold" release.
+ 5.6.1 2001-Apr-08
+ Rafael 5.6.2-RC1 2003-Nov-08
+ 5.6.2 2003-Nov-15 Fix new build issues
+
+ Jarkko 5.7.0 2000-Sep-02 The 5.7 track: Development.
+ 5.7.1 2001-Apr-09
+ 5.7.2 2001-Jul-13 Virtual release candidate 0.
+ 5.7.3 2002-Mar-05
+ 5.8.0-RC1 2002-Jun-01
+ 5.8.0-RC2 2002-Jun-21
+ 5.8.0-RC3 2002-Jul-13
+ 5.8.0 2002-Jul-18
+ 5.8.1-RC1 2003-Jul-10
+ 5.8.1-RC2 2003-Jul-11
+ 5.8.1-RC3 2003-Jul-30
+ 5.8.1-RC4 2003-Aug-01
+ 5.8.1-RC5 2003-Sep-22
+ 5.8.1 2003-Sep-25
+ Nicholas 5.8.2-RC1 2003-Oct-27
+ 5.8.2-RC2 2003-Nov-03
+ 5.8.2 2003-Nov-05
+ 5.8.3-RC1 2004-Jan-07
+ 5.8.3 2004-Jan-14
+ 5.8.4-RC1 2004-Apr-05
+ 5.8.4-RC2 2004-Apr-15
+ 5.8.4 2004-Apr-21
+ 5.8.5-RC1 2004-Jul-06
+ 5.8.5-RC2 2004-Jul-08
+ 5.8.5 2004-Jul-19
+ 5.8.6-RC1 2004-Nov-11
+ 5.8.6 2004-Nov-27
+ 5.8.7-RC1 2005-May-18
+ 5.8.7 2005-May-30
+ 5.8.8-RC1 2006-Jan-20
+ 5.8.8 2006-Jan-31
+
+ Hugo 5.9.0 2003-Oct-27
+ Rafael 5.9.1 2004-Mar-16
+ 5.9.2 2005-Apr-01
+ 5.9.3 2006-Jan-28
+ 5.9.4 2006-Aug-15
+ 5.9.5 2007-Jul-07
+ 5.10.0-RC1 2007-Nov-17
+ 5.10.0-RC2 2007-Nov-25
+ 5.10.0 2007-Dec-18
=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
5.004 1351 60 1230 136 408 51 355 161 1587 55
5.004_01 1356 60 1258 138 410 51 358 161 1587 55
5.004_04 1375 60 1294 139 413 51 394 162 1629 55
+ 5.004_05 1463 60 1435 150 394 50 445 175 1855 59
5.004_51 1401 61 1260 140 413 53 358 162 1594 56
5.004_53 1422 62 1295 141 438 70 394 162 1637 56
5.004_56 1501 66 1301 140 447 74 408 165 1648 57
5.004_73 1874 76 1467 152 762 102 506 196 1883 61
5.004_75 1877 76 1467 152 770 103 508 196 1896 62
5.005 1896 76 1469 152 795 103 509 197 1945 63
+ 5.005_03 1936 77 1541 153 813 104 551 201 2176 72
+ 5.005_50 1969 78 1842 301 795 103 514 198 1948 63
+ 5.005_53 1999 79 1885 303 806 104 602 224 2002 67
+ 5.005_56 2086 79 1970 307 866 113 672 238 2221 75
+ 5.6.0 2930 80 2626 364 1096 129 868 281 2841 93
+ 5.7.0 2977 80 2801 425 1250 132 975 307 3206 100
+ 5.6.1 3049 80 3764 484 1924 159 1025 304 3593 119
+ 5.7.1 3351 84 3442 455 1944 167 1334 357 3698 124
+ 5.7.2 3491 87 4858 618 3290 298 1598 449 3910 139
+ 5.7.3 3415 87 5367 630 14448 410 2205 640 4491 148
The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
distribution. The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
core *.[hcy]
lib lib/**/*.p[ml]
ext ext/**/*.{[hcyt],xs,pm}
- t t/**/*(.)
+ t t/**/*(.) (for 1-5.005_56) or **/*.t (for 5.6.0-5.7.3)
doc {README*,INSTALL,*[_.]man{,.?},pod/**/*.pod}
Here are some statistics for the other subdirectories and one file in
======================================================================
- 5.004_70 5.004_73 5.004_75 5.005
-
- beos 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
- Configure 256 1 256 1 264 1 264 1
- cygwin32 24 5 24 5 24 5 24 5
- djgpp 14 5 14 5 14 5 14 5
- eg 86 65 86 65 86 65 86 65
- emacs 262 2 262 2 262 2 262 2
- h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
- hints 157 74 157 74 159 74 160 74
- mpeix - - - - 5 3 5 3
- os2 129 44 139 44 142 44 143 44
- plan9 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15
- Porting 241 9 253 9 259 10 264 12
- qnx 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
- utils 160 9 160 9 160 9 160 9
- vms 570 34 572 34 573 34 575 34
- win32 577 41 585 41 585 41 587 41
- x2p 281 19 281 19 281 19 281 19
+ 5.004_70 5.004_73 5.004_75 5.005 5.005_03
+
+ apollo - - - - - - - - 0 1
+ beos 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
+ Configure 256 1 256 1 264 1 264 1 270 1
+ cygwin32 24 5 24 5 24 5 24 5 24 5
+ djgpp 14 5 14 5 14 5 14 5 15 5
+ eg 86 65 86 65 86 65 86 65 86 65
+ emacs 262 2 262 2 262 2 262 2 274 2
+ h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
+ hints 157 74 157 74 159 74 160 74 179 77
+ mint - - - - - - - - 4 7
+ mpeix - - - - 5 3 5 3 5 3
+ os2 129 44 139 44 142 44 143 44 148 44
+ plan9 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15
+ Porting 241 9 253 9 259 10 264 12 272 13
+ qnx 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
+ utils 160 9 160 9 160 9 160 9 164 9
+ vms 570 34 572 34 573 34 575 34 583 34
+ vos - - - - - - - - 156 10
+ win32 577 41 585 41 585 41 587 41 600 42
+ x2p 281 19 281 19 281 19 281 19 281 19
=head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES
applied on top of the 5.003_07 (or whatever was before the 5.003_08)
added lines for 110 kilobytes, it removed lines for 19 kilobytes, and
changed lines for 424 kilobytes. Just the lines themselves are
-counted, not their context. The "+ - !" become from the diff(1)s
+counted, not their context. The "+ - !" become from the diff(1)
context diff output format.
Pump- Release Date diff lines kB
- king + - !
+ king -------------
+ + - !
===========================================================================
Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19 110 19 424
Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk. In addition to the
-Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Andreas König, John
-Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and
-Paul D. Smith sent corrections and additions.
+Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Mark Dominus,
+Andreas König, John Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Jeff Okamoto,
+Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and Paul D. Smith sent corrections
+and additions.
=cut