perlhist - the Perl history records
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=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, Jarkko Hietaniemi.
+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
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_04-MT6 1998-Oct-09
- 5.004_04-MT7 1998-Nov-22
- 5.004_04-MT8 1998-Dec-03
- Chip 5.004_04-MT9 1999-Apr-26
- 5.004_05 1999-Apr-29
+ 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
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
- Chip 5.005_04 2000-***-**
+ 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_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
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- Sarathy 5.6.1-TRIAL1 2000-Dec-18 The 5.6 maintenance track.
+ 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
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+ 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
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- Jarkko 5.7.0 2000-Sep-02 The 5.7 track: Development.
- 5.7.1 2001-Apr-**
+ 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
+
+ Hugo 5.9.0 2003-Oct-27
+ Rafael 5.9.1 2004-Mar-16
=head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
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_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
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, Jeff Okamoto, 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.
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