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24.2. What's New in Perl 5.6.0-5.8.0

As mentioned earlier, Perl 5.6.0 is the minimum requirement for mod_perl 2.0. However, certain new features work only with Perl 5.8.0 and higher.

The following are the important changes in the recent Perl versions that had an impact on mod_perl. For a complete list of changes, see the appropriate perldelta manpage. The 5.6 generation of Perl introduced the following features:

Overall, multiple bugs and problems were fixed in Perl 5.6.1, so if you plan on running the 5.6 generation, you should run at least 5.6.1. It is possible that when this book is released 5.6.2 will be out, which will then incorporate the bug fixes from Perl 5.8.0.

Perl 5.8.0 has introduced the following features:



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