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+Please note: This file provides a complete, temporally ordered log of
+changes that went into every version of Perl.  If you'd like more
+detailed information, please consult the comments in the individual
+patches posted to the perl5-porters mailing list.  Patches for each
+individual change may also be obtained through ftp and rsync--see
+perlhack.pod for the details.
+
+
+                          ---------------
+                           CAST AND CREW
+                          ---------------
+
+To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today,
+here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
+current addresses (as of February 2000):
+
+    Gisle Aas           <gisle@aas.no>
+    Abigail             <abigail@delanet.com>
+    Kenneth Albanowski  <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+    Russ Allbery        <rra@stanford.edu>
+    Brad Appleton       <bradapp@enteract.com>
+    Greg Bacon          <gbacon@itsc.uah.edu>
+    Robin Barker        <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+    Vishal Bhatia       <vishal@gol.com>
+    Spider Boardman     <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+    Tom Christiansen    <tchrist@perl.com>
+    Mark-Jason Dominus  <mjd@plover.com>
+    Jan Dubois          <jand@activestate.com>
+    Dominic Dunlop      <domo@computer.org>
+    Eric Fifer          <efifer@sanwaint.com>
+    Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+    M. J. T. Guy        <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+    Jarkko Hietaniemi   <jhi@iki.fi>
+    Tom Hughes          <tom@compton.nu>
+    Nick Ing-Simmons    <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+    Andreas Koenig      <a.koenig@mind.de>
+    Douglas Lankshear   <dougl@activestate.com>
+    Doug MacEachern     <dougm@opengroup.org>
+    Raphael Manfredi    <Raphael.Manfredi@st.com>
+    Paul Marquess       <Paul.Marquess@btinternet.com>
+    Stephen McCamant    <alias@mcs.com>
+    Laszlo Molnar       <laszlo.molnar@eth.ericsson.se>
+    Hans Mulder         <hansmu@xs4all.nl>
+    Chris Nandor        <pudge@pobox.com>
+    Matthias Neeracher  <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>
+    Jeff Okamoto        <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+    Ulrich Pfeifer      <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+    Tom Phoenix         <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+    Joshua Pritikin     <joshua.pritikin@db.com>
+    Peter Prymmer       <pvhp@forte.com>
+    Norbert Pueschel    <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+    Dean Roehrich       <roehrich@cray.com>
+    Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt0.demon.co.uk>
+    Michael G Schwern   <schwern@pobox.com>
+    Roderick Schertler  <roderick@argon.org>
+    Kurt D. Starsinic   <kstar@chapin.edu>
+    Benjamin Stuhl      <sho_pi@hotmail.com>
+    Dan Sugalski        <sugalskd@osshe.edu>
+    Nathan Torkington   <gnat@frii.com>
+    Larry W. Virden     <lvirden@cas.org>
+    Johan Vromans       <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
+    Ilya Zakharevich    <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+
+And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
+
+    Charles Bailey      <bailey@newman.upenn.edu>
+    Graham Barr         <gbarr@ti.com>
+    Malcolm Beattie     <mbeattie@sable.ox.ac.uk>
+    Tim Bunce           <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+    Andy Dougherty      <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
+    Gurusamy Sarathy    <gsar@activestate.com>
+    Chip Salzenberg     <chip@perl.com>
+
+And, of course, the Author of Perl:
+
+    Larry Wall         <larry@wall.org>
+
+
+NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the
+repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change
+happened in; and the affected files.  The file lists have a short symbolic
+indicator:
+
+           !       modified
+           +       added
+           -       deleted
+           +>      branched (from elsewhere)
+           !>      merged changes (from elsewhere)
+
+
+--------------
+Version v5.7.0         Development release working toward v5.8
+--------------

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+=head1 NAME
+
+perldelta - what's new for perl v5.8.0
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This document describes differences between the 5.6 release and this one.
+
+=head1 Core Enhancements
+
+=head1 Modules and Pragmata
+
+=head1 Utility Changes
+
+=head1 Improved Documentation
+
+=head1 Performance enhancements
+
+=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
+
+=head1 Platform specific changes
+
+=head1 Significant bug fixes
+
+=head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
+
+=head1 New tests
+
+=head1 Incompatible Changes
+
+=head1 Known Problems
+
+=head1 Obsolete Diagnostics
+
+=head1 Reporting Bugs
+
+If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the
+articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup.
+There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/perl/, the Perl
+Home Page.
+
+If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
+program included with your release.  Be sure to trim your bug down
+to a tiny but sufficient test case.  Your bug report, along with the
+output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.com to be
+analysed by the Perl porting team.
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed.
+
+The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
+
+The F<README> file for general stuff.
+
+The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.
+
+=head1 HISTORY
+
+Written by Gurusamy Sarathy <F<gsar@activestate.com>>, with many
+contributions from The Perl Porters.
+
+Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.com>>.
+
+=cut