5 perlhist - the Perl history records
9 This document aims to record the Perl source code releases.
13 Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall:
15 Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates.
16 Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to
17 /(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\)
18 Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package.
19 Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls).
20 Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just
21 switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000.
22 Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to
23 introduce everything else.
25 =head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN
27 Larry Wall, Andy Dougherty, Tom Christiansen, Charles Bailey, Nick
28 Ing-Simmons, Chip Salzenberg, Tim Bunce, Malcolm Beattie, Gurusamy
29 Sarathy, Graham Barr, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Hugo van der Sanden,
30 Michael Schwern, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Nicholas Clark, Richard Clamp,
31 Leon Brocard, Dave Mitchell, Jesse Vincent, Ricardo Signes, Steve Hay,
32 Matt S Trout, David Golden, Florian Ragwitz, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa,
33 Chris C<BinGOs> Williams, and Zefram.
37 [from Porting/pumpkin.pod in the Perl source code distribution]
39 Chip Salzenberg gets credit for that, with a nod to his cow orker,
40 David Croy. We had passed around various names (baton, token, hot
41 potato) but none caught on. Then, Chip asked:
45 Who has the patch pumpkin?
47 To explain: David Croy once told me once that at a previous job,
48 there was one tape drive and multiple systems that used it for backups.
49 But instead of some high-tech exclusion software, they used a low-tech
50 method to prevent multiple simultaneous backups: a stuffed pumpkin.
51 No one was allowed to make backups unless they had the "backup pumpkin".
55 The name has stuck. The holder of the pumpkin is sometimes called
56 the pumpking (keeping the source afloat?) or the pumpkineer (pulling
61 Pump- Release Date Notes
66 ======================================================================
68 Larry 0 Classified. Don't ask.
70 Larry 1.000 1987-Dec-18
74 Schwern 1.0.15 2002-Dec-18 Modernization
75 Richard 1.0_16 2003-Dec-18
77 Larry 2.000 1988-Jun-05
81 Larry 3.000 1989-Oct-18
91 3.019..27 1990-Aug-10 User subs.
100 Larry 4.000 1991-Mar-21
105 4.011..18 1991-Nov-05
106 4.019 1991-Nov-11 Stable.
107 4.020..33 1992-Jun-08
110 Larry 4.036 1993-Feb-05 Very stable.
112 5.000alpha1 1993-Jul-31
113 5.000alpha2 1993-Aug-16
114 5.000alpha3 1993-Oct-10
115 5.000alpha4 1993-???-??
116 5.000alpha5 1993-???-??
117 5.000alpha6 1994-Mar-18
118 5.000alpha7 1994-Mar-25
119 Andy 5.000alpha8 1994-Apr-04
120 Larry 5.000alpha9 1994-May-05 ext appears.
121 5.000alpha10 1994-Jun-11
122 5.000alpha11 1994-Jul-01
123 Andy 5.000a11a 1994-Jul-07 To fit 14.
124 5.000a11b 1994-Jul-14
125 5.000a11c 1994-Jul-19
126 5.000a11d 1994-Jul-22
127 Larry 5.000alpha12 1994-Aug-04
128 Andy 5.000a12a 1994-Aug-08
129 5.000a12b 1994-Aug-15
130 5.000a12c 1994-Aug-22
131 5.000a12d 1994-Aug-22
132 5.000a12e 1994-Aug-22
133 5.000a12f 1994-Aug-24
134 5.000a12g 1994-Aug-24
135 5.000a12h 1994-Aug-24
136 Larry 5.000beta1 1994-Aug-30
137 Andy 5.000b1a 1994-Sep-06
138 Larry 5.000beta2 1994-Sep-14 Core slushified.
139 Andy 5.000b2a 1994-Sep-14
142 Larry 5.000beta3 1994-Sep-??
143 Andy 5.000b3a 1994-Sep-18
150 Andy 5.000b3h 1994-Oct-07
151 Larry? 5.000gamma 1994-Oct-13?
153 Larry 5.000 1994-Oct-17
155 Andy 5.000a 1994-Dec-19
171 Larry 5.001 1995-Mar-13
173 Andy 5.001a 1995-Mar-15
177 5.001e 1995-Apr-18 Stable.
184 5.001l 1995-Jun-06 Stable.
185 5.001m 1995-Jul-02 Very stable.
186 5.001n 1995-Oct-31 Very unstable.
187 5.002beta1 1995-Nov-21
194 Tom 5.002b1g 1995-Dec-21 Doc release.
195 Andy 5.002b1h 1996-Jan-05
197 Larry 5.002b3 1996-Feb-02
198 Andy 5.002gamma 1996-Feb-11
199 Larry 5.002delta 1996-Feb-27
201 Larry 5.002 1996-Feb-29 Prototypes.
203 Charles 5.002_01 1996-Mar-25
205 5.003 1996-Jun-25 Security release.
208 Nick 5.003_02 1996-Aug-10
209 Andy 5.003_03 1996-Aug-28
214 Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19
235 5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 Ramping up to the 5.004 release.
242 5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 Fairly widely used.
243 5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05
244 5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08
245 5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10
246 5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13
247 5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15
248 5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17
249 5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18
250 5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24
251 5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25
252 5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28
255 5.003_99a 1997-May-09
256 p54rc1 1997-May-12 Release Candidates.
259 Chip 5.004 1997-May-15 A major maintenance release.
261 Tim 5.004_01-t1 1997-???-?? The 5.004 maintenance track.
262 5.004_01-t2 1997-Jun-11 aka perl5.004m1t2
264 5.004_01_01 1997-Jul-29 aka perl5.004m2t1
265 5.004_01_02 1997-Aug-01 aka perl5.004m2t2
266 5.004_01_03 1997-Aug-05 aka perl5.004m2t3
268 5.004_02_01 1997-Aug-12 aka perl5.004m3t1
269 5.004_03-t2 1997-Aug-13 aka perl5.004m3t2
271 5.004_04-t1 1997-Sep-19 aka perl5.004m4t1
272 5.004_04-t2 1997-Sep-23 aka perl5.004m4t2
273 5.004_04-t3 1997-Oct-10 aka perl5.004m4t3
274 5.004_04-t4 1997-Oct-14 aka perl5.004m4t4
276 5.004_04-m1 1998-Mar-04 (5.004m5t1) Maint. trials for 5.004_05.
277 5.004_04-m2 1998-May-01
278 5.004_04-m3 1998-May-15
279 5.004_04-m4 1998-May-19
280 5.004_05-MT5 1998-Jul-21
281 5.004_05-MT6 1998-Oct-09
282 5.004_05-MT7 1998-Nov-22
283 5.004_05-MT8 1998-Dec-03
284 Chip 5.004_05-MT9 1999-Apr-26
287 Malcolm 5.004_50 1997-Sep-09 The 5.005 development track.
304 Sarathy 5.004_67 1998-Jun-15
311 5.004_74 1998-Jul-14 5.005 beta candidate.
312 5.004_75 1998-Jul-15 5.005 beta1.
313 5.004_76 1998-Jul-21 5.005 beta2.
315 Sarathy 5.005 1998-Jul-22 Oneperl.
317 Sarathy 5.005_01 1998-Jul-27 The 5.005 maintenance track.
318 5.005_02-T1 1998-Aug-02
319 5.005_02-T2 1998-Aug-05
321 Graham 5.005_03-MT1 1998-Nov-30
322 5.005_03-MT2 1999-Jan-04
323 5.005_03-MT3 1999-Jan-17
324 5.005_03-MT4 1999-Jan-26
325 5.005_03-MT5 1999-Jan-28
326 5.005_03-MT6 1999-Mar-05
328 Leon 5.005_04-RC1 2004-Feb-05
329 5.005_04-RC2 2004-Feb-18
331 5.005_05-RC1 2009-Feb-16
333 Sarathy 5.005_50 1998-Jul-26 The 5.6 development track.
348 5.5.650 2000-Feb-08 beta1
349 5.5.660 2000-Feb-22 beta2
350 5.5.670 2000-Feb-29 beta3
351 5.6.0-RC1 2000-Mar-09 Release candidate 1.
352 5.6.0-RC2 2000-Mar-14 Release candidate 2.
353 5.6.0-RC3 2000-Mar-21 Release candidate 3.
355 Sarathy 5.6.0 2000-Mar-22
357 Sarathy 5.6.1-TRIAL1 2000-Dec-18 The 5.6 maintenance track.
358 5.6.1-TRIAL2 2001-Jan-31
359 5.6.1-TRIAL3 2001-Mar-19
360 5.6.1-foolish 2001-Apr-01 The "fools-gold" release.
362 Rafael 5.6.2-RC1 2003-Nov-08
363 5.6.2 2003-Nov-15 Fix new build issues
365 Jarkko 5.7.0 2000-Sep-02 The 5.7 track: Development.
367 5.7.2 2001-Jul-13 Virtual release candidate 0.
369 5.8.0-RC1 2002-Jun-01
370 5.8.0-RC2 2002-Jun-21
371 5.8.0-RC3 2002-Jul-13
373 Jarkko 5.8.0 2002-Jul-18
375 Jarkko 5.8.1-RC1 2003-Jul-10 The 5.8 maintenance track
376 5.8.1-RC2 2003-Jul-11
377 5.8.1-RC3 2003-Jul-30
378 5.8.1-RC4 2003-Aug-01
379 5.8.1-RC5 2003-Sep-22
381 Nicholas 5.8.2-RC1 2003-Oct-27
382 5.8.2-RC2 2003-Nov-03
384 5.8.3-RC1 2004-Jan-07
386 5.8.4-RC1 2004-Apr-05
387 5.8.4-RC2 2004-Apr-15
389 5.8.5-RC1 2004-Jul-06
390 5.8.5-RC2 2004-Jul-08
392 5.8.6-RC1 2004-Nov-11
394 5.8.7-RC1 2005-May-18
396 5.8.8-RC1 2006-Jan-20
398 5.8.9-RC1 2008-Nov-10
399 5.8.9-RC2 2008-Dec-06
402 Hugo 5.9.0 2003-Oct-27 The 5.9 development track
403 Rafael 5.9.1 2004-Mar-16
408 5.10.0-RC1 2007-Nov-17
409 5.10.0-RC2 2007-Nov-25
411 Rafael 5.10.0 2007-Dec-18
413 David M 5.10.1-RC1 2009-Aug-06 The 5.10 maintenance track
414 5.10.1-RC2 2009-Aug-18
417 Jesse 5.11.0 2009-Oct-02 The 5.11 development track
419 Leon 5.11.2 2009-Nov-20
420 Jesse 5.11.3 2009-Dec-20
421 Ricardo 5.11.4 2010-Jan-20
422 Steve 5.11.5 2010-Feb-20
423 Jesse 5.12.0-RC0 2010-Mar-21
424 5.12.0-RC1 2010-Mar-29
425 5.12.0-RC2 2010-Apr-01
426 5.12.0-RC3 2010-Apr-02
427 5.12.0-RC4 2010-Apr-06
428 5.12.0-RC5 2010-Apr-09
430 Jesse 5.12.0 2010-Apr-12
432 Jesse 5.12.1-RC2 2010-May-13 The 5.12 maintenance track
433 5.12.1-RC1 2010-May-09
435 5.12.2-RC2 2010-Aug-31
437 Ricardo 5.12.3-RC1 2011-Jan-09
438 Ricardo 5.12.3-RC2 2011-Jan-14
439 Ricardo 5.12.3-RC3 2011-Jan-17
440 Ricardo 5.12.3 2011-Jan-21
442 Leon 5.13.0 2010-Apr-20 The 5.13 development track
443 Ricardo 5.13.1 2010-May-20
444 Matt 5.13.2 2010-Jun-22
445 David G 5.13.3 2010-Jul-20
446 Florian 5.13.4 2010-Aug-20
447 Steve 5.13.5 2010-Sep-19
448 Miyagawa 5.13.6 2010-Oct-20
449 BinGOs 5.13.7 2010-Nov-20
450 Zefram 5.13.8 2010-Dec-20
451 Jesse 5.13.9 2011-Jan-20
453 =head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES
455 For example the notation "core: 212 29" in the release 1.000 means that
456 it had in the core 212 kilobytes, in 29 files. The "core".."doc" are
459 release core lib ext t doc
460 ======================================================================
462 1.000 212 29 - - - - 38 51 62 3
463 1.014 219 29 - - - - 39 52 68 4
464 2.000 309 31 2 3 - - 55 57 92 4
465 2.001 312 31 2 3 - - 55 57 94 4
466 3.000 508 36 24 11 - - 79 73 156 5
467 3.044 645 37 61 20 - - 90 74 190 6
468 4.000 635 37 59 20 - - 91 75 198 4
469 4.019 680 37 85 29 - - 98 76 199 4
470 4.036 709 37 89 30 - - 98 76 208 5
471 5.000alpha2 785 50 114 32 - - 112 86 209 5
472 5.000alpha3 801 50 117 33 - - 121 87 209 5
473 5.000alpha9 1022 56 149 43 116 29 125 90 217 6
474 5.000a12h 978 49 140 49 205 46 152 97 228 9
475 5.000b3h 1035 53 232 70 216 38 162 94 218 21
476 5.000 1038 53 250 76 216 38 154 92 536 62
477 5.001m 1071 54 388 82 240 38 159 95 544 29
478 5.002 1121 54 661 101 287 43 155 94 847 35
479 5.003 1129 54 680 102 291 43 166 100 853 35
480 5.003_07 1231 60 748 106 396 53 213 137 976 39
481 5.004 1351 60 1230 136 408 51 355 161 1587 55
482 5.004_01 1356 60 1258 138 410 51 358 161 1587 55
483 5.004_04 1375 60 1294 139 413 51 394 162 1629 55
484 5.004_05 1463 60 1435 150 394 50 445 175 1855 59
485 5.004_51 1401 61 1260 140 413 53 358 162 1594 56
486 5.004_53 1422 62 1295 141 438 70 394 162 1637 56
487 5.004_56 1501 66 1301 140 447 74 408 165 1648 57
488 5.004_59 1555 72 1317 142 448 74 424 171 1678 58
489 5.004_62 1602 77 1327 144 629 92 428 173 1674 58
490 5.004_65 1626 77 1358 146 615 92 446 179 1698 60
491 5.004_68 1856 74 1382 152 619 92 463 187 1784 60
492 5.004_70 1863 75 1456 154 675 92 494 194 1809 60
493 5.004_73 1874 76 1467 152 762 102 506 196 1883 61
494 5.004_75 1877 76 1467 152 770 103 508 196 1896 62
495 5.005 1896 76 1469 152 795 103 509 197 1945 63
496 5.005_03 1936 77 1541 153 813 104 551 201 2176 72
497 5.005_50 1969 78 1842 301 795 103 514 198 1948 63
498 5.005_53 1999 79 1885 303 806 104 602 224 2002 67
499 5.005_56 2086 79 1970 307 866 113 672 238 2221 75
500 5.6.0 2820 79 2626 364 1096 129 863 280 2840 93
501 5.6.1 2946 78 2921 430 1171 132 1024 304 3330 102
502 5.6.2 2947 78 3143 451 1247 127 1303 387 3406 102
503 5.7.0 2977 80 2801 425 1250 132 975 307 3206 100
504 5.7.1 3351 84 3442 455 1944 167 1334 357 3698 124
505 5.7.2 3491 87 4858 618 3290 298 1598 449 3910 139
506 5.7.3 3299 85 4295 537 2196 300 2176 626 4171 120
507 5.8.0 3489 87 4533 585 2437 331 2588 726 4368 125
508 5.8.1 3674 90 5104 623 2604 353 2983 836 4625 134
509 5.8.2 3633 90 5111 623 2623 357 3019 848 4634 135
510 5.8.3 3625 90 5141 624 2660 363 3083 869 4669 136
511 5.8.4 3653 90 5170 634 2684 368 3148 885 4689 137
512 5.8.5 3664 90 4260 303 2707 369 3208 898 4689 138
513 5.8.6 3690 90 4271 303 3141 396 3411 925 4709 139
514 5.8.7 3788 90 4322 307 3297 401 3485 964 4744 141
515 5.8.8 3895 90 4357 314 3409 431 3622 1017 4979 144
516 5.8.9 4132 93 5508 330 3826 529 4364 1234 5348 152
517 5.9.0 3657 90 4951 626 2603 354 3011 841 4609 135
518 5.9.1 3580 90 5196 634 2665 367 3186 889 4725 138
519 5.9.2 3863 90 4654 312 3283 403 3551 973 4800 142
520 5.9.3 4096 91 5318 381 4806 597 4272 1214 5139 147
521 5.9.4 4393 94 5718 415 4578 642 4646 1310 5335 153
522 5.9.5 4681 96 6849 479 4827 671 5155 1490 5572 159
523 5.10.0 4710 97 7050 486 4899 673 5275 1503 5673 160
524 5.10.1 4858 98 7440 519 6195 921 6147 1751 5151 163
525 5.12.0 4999 100 1146 121 15227 2176 6400 1843 5342 168
526 5.12.1 5000 100 1146 121 15283 2178 6407 1846 5354 169
527 5.12.2 5003 100 1146 121 15404 2178 6413 1846 5376 170
528 5.12.3 5004 100 1146 121 15529 2180 6417 1848 5391 171
530 The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code
531 distribution. The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means
536 ext ext/**/*.{[hcyt],xs,pm} (for -5.10.1) or
537 {dist,ext,cpan}/**/*.{[hcyt],xs,pm} (for 5.12.0-)
538 t t/**/*(.) (for 1-5.005_56) or **/*.t (for 5.6.0-5.7.3)
539 doc {README*,INSTALL,*[_.]man{,.?},pod/**/*.pod}
541 Here are some statistics for the other subdirectories and one file in
542 the Perl source distribution for somewhat more selected releases.
544 ======================================================================
549 Configure 31 1 37 1 62 1
555 x2p 103 17 104 17 137 17
557 ======================================================================
561 atarist - - - - 113 31
562 Configure 73 1 83 1 86 1
565 h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12
567 msdos 57 15 58 15 60 15
568 os2 81 29 81 29 113 31
570 x2p 147 18 152 19 154 19
572 ======================================================================
574 5.000a2 5.000a12h 5.000b3h 5.000 5.001m
576 apollo 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3
577 atarist 113 31 113 31 - - - - - -
578 bench - - 0 1 - - - - - -
579 Bugs 2 5 26 1 - - - - - -
580 dlperl 40 5 - - - - - - - -
581 do 127 71 - - - - - - - -
582 Configure - - 153 1 159 1 160 1 180 1
583 Doc - - 26 1 75 7 11 1 11 1
584 eg 79 58 53 44 51 43 54 44 54 44
585 emacs 67 4 104 6 104 6 104 1 104 6
586 h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
587 hints 11 56 12 46 18 48 18 48 44 56
588 msdos 60 15 60 15 - - - - - -
589 os2 113 31 113 31 - - - - - -
590 U - - 62 8 112 42 - - - -
591 usub 43 8 - - - - - - - -
592 vms - - 80 7 123 9 184 15 304 20
593 x2p 171 22 171 21 162 20 162 20 279 20
595 ======================================================================
599 Configure 201 1 201 1 217 1
601 emacs 108 1 108 1 143 1
602 h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12
603 hints 73 59 77 60 90 62
604 os2 84 17 56 10 117 42
608 vms 500 24 475 26 505 27
609 x2p 280 20 280 20 280 19
611 ======================================================================
613 5.004 5.004_04 5.004_62 5.004_65 5.004_68
615 beos - - - - - - 1 1 1 1
616 Configure 225 1 225 1 240 1 248 1 256 1
617 cygwin32 23 5 23 5 23 5 24 5 24 5
618 djgpp - - - - 14 5 14 5 14 5
619 eg 81 62 81 62 81 62 81 62 81 62
620 emacs 194 1 204 1 212 2 212 2 212 2
621 h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
622 hints 129 69 132 71 144 72 151 74 155 74
623 os2 121 42 127 42 127 44 129 44 129 44
624 plan9 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15
625 Porting 94 2 109 4 203 6 234 8 241 9
626 qnx 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
627 utils 112 8 118 8 124 8 156 9 159 9
628 vms 518 34 524 34 538 34 569 34 569 34
629 win32 285 33 378 36 470 39 493 39 575 41
630 x2p 281 19 281 19 281 19 282 19 281 19
632 ======================================================================
634 5.004_70 5.004_73 5.004_75 5.005 5.005_03
636 apollo - - - - - - - - 0 1
637 beos 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
638 Configure 256 1 256 1 264 1 264 1 270 1
639 cygwin32 24 5 24 5 24 5 24 5 24 5
640 djgpp 14 5 14 5 14 5 14 5 15 5
641 eg 86 65 86 65 86 65 86 65 86 65
642 emacs 262 2 262 2 262 2 262 2 274 2
643 h2pl 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12 12
644 hints 157 74 157 74 159 74 160 74 179 77
645 mint - - - - - - - - 4 7
646 mpeix - - - - 5 3 5 3 5 3
647 os2 129 44 139 44 142 44 143 44 148 44
648 plan9 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15 82 15
649 Porting 241 9 253 9 259 10 264 12 272 13
650 qnx 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2 1 2
651 utils 160 9 160 9 160 9 160 9 164 9
652 vms 570 34 572 34 573 34 575 34 583 34
653 vos - - - - - - - - 156 10
654 win32 577 41 585 41 585 41 587 41 600 42
655 x2p 281 19 281 19 281 19 281 19 281 19
657 ======================================================================
659 5.6.0 5.6.1 5.6.2 5.7.3
661 apollo 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3
663 Configure 346 1 361 1 363 1 394 1
664 Cross - - - - - - 4 2
665 djgpp 19 6 19 6 19 6 21 7
666 eg 112 71 112 71 112 71 - -
667 emacs 303 4 319 4 319 4 319 4
668 epoc 29 8 35 8 35 8 36 8
669 h2pl 24 15 24 15 24 15 24 15
670 hints 242 83 250 84 321 89 272 87
671 mint 11 9 11 9 11 9 11 9
672 mpeix 9 4 9 4 9 4 9 4
673 NetWare - - - - - - 423 57
674 os2 214 59 224 60 224 60 357 66
675 plan9 92 17 92 17 92 17 85 15
676 Porting 361 15 390 16 390 16 425 21
678 utils 228 12 221 11 222 11 267 13
680 vmesa 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4
681 vms 686 38 627 38 627 38 649 36
682 vos 227 12 249 15 248 15 281 17
683 win32 755 41 782 42 801 42 1006 50
684 x2p 307 20 307 20 307 20 345 20
686 ======================================================================
688 5.8.0 5.8.1 5.8.2 5.8.3 5.8.4
690 apollo 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3
691 beos 6 4 6 4 6 4 6 4 6 4
692 Configure 472 1 493 1 493 1 493 1 494 1
693 Cross 4 2 45 10 45 10 45 10 45 10
694 djgpp 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 7
695 emacs 319 4 329 4 329 4 329 4 329 4
696 epoc 33 8 33 8 33 8 33 8 33 8
697 h2pl 24 15 24 15 24 15 24 15 24 15
698 hints 294 88 321 89 321 89 321 89 348 91
699 mint 11 9 11 9 11 9 11 9 11 9
700 mpeix 24 5 25 5 25 5 25 5 25 5
701 NetWare 488 61 490 61 490 61 490 61 488 61
702 os2 361 66 445 67 450 67 488 67 488 67
703 plan9 85 15 325 17 325 17 325 17 321 17
704 Porting 479 22 537 32 538 32 539 32 538 33
705 qnx 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3
706 utils 275 15 258 16 258 16 263 19 263 19
707 uts 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3
708 vmesa 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4
709 vms 648 36 654 36 654 36 656 36 656 36
710 vos 330 20 335 20 335 20 335 20 335 20
711 win32 1062 49 1125 49 1127 49 1126 49 1181 56
712 x2p 347 20 348 20 348 20 348 20 348 20
714 ======================================================================
716 5.8.5 5.8.6 5.8.7 5.8.8 5.8.9
718 apollo 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3
719 beos 6 4 6 4 8 4 8 4 8 4
720 Configure 494 1 494 1 495 1 506 1 520 1
721 Cross 45 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 46 10
722 djgpp 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 7
723 emacs 329 4 329 4 329 4 329 4 406 4
724 epoc 33 8 33 8 33 8 34 8 35 8
725 h2pl 24 15 24 15 24 15 24 15 24 15
726 hints 350 91 352 91 355 94 360 94 387 99
727 mint 11 9 11 9 11 9 11 9 11 9
728 mpeix 25 5 25 5 25 5 49 6 49 6
729 NetWare 488 61 488 61 488 61 490 61 491 61
730 os2 488 67 488 67 488 67 488 67 552 70
731 plan9 321 17 321 17 321 17 322 17 324 17
732 Porting 538 34 548 35 549 35 564 37 625 41
733 qnx 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3
734 utils 265 19 265 19 266 19 267 19 281 21
735 uts 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3
736 vmesa 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4
737 vms 657 36 658 36 662 36 664 36 716 35
738 vos 335 20 335 20 335 20 336 21 345 22
739 win32 1183 56 1190 56 1199 56 1219 56 1484 68
740 x2p 349 20 349 20 349 20 349 19 350 19
742 ======================================================================
744 5.9.0 5.9.1 5.9.2 5.9.3 5.9.4
746 apollo 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3 8 3
747 beos 6 4 6 4 8 4 8 4 8 4
748 Configure 493 1 493 1 495 1 508 1 512 1
749 Cross 45 10 45 10 45 10 45 10 46 10
750 djgpp 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 7 21 7
751 emacs 329 4 329 4 329 4 329 4 329 4
752 epoc 33 8 33 8 33 8 34 8 34 8
753 h2pl 24 15 24 15 24 15 24 15 24 15
754 hints 321 89 346 91 355 94 359 94 366 96
755 mad - - - - - - - - 174 6
756 mint 11 9 11 9 11 9 11 9 11 9
757 mpeix 25 5 25 5 25 5 49 6 49 6
758 NetWare 489 61 487 61 487 61 489 61 489 61
759 os2 444 67 488 67 488 67 488 67 488 67
760 plan9 325 17 321 17 321 17 322 17 323 17
761 Porting 537 32 536 33 549 36 564 38 576 38
762 qnx 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3 5 3
763 symbian - - - - - - 293 53 293 53
764 utils 258 16 263 19 268 20 273 23 275 24
765 uts 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3 12 3
766 vmesa 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4 25 4
767 vms 660 36 547 33 553 33 661 33 696 33
768 vos 11 7 11 7 11 7 11 7 11 7
769 win32 1120 49 1124 51 1191 56 1209 56 1719 90
770 x2p 348 20 348 20 349 20 349 19 349 19
772 ======================================================================
774 5.9.5 5.10.0 5.10.1 5.12.0 5.12.1
776 apollo 8 3 8 3 0 3 0 3 0 3
777 beos 8 4 8 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
778 Configure 518 1 518 1 533 1 536 1 536 1
779 Cross 122 15 122 15 119 15 118 15 118 15
780 djgpp 21 7 21 7 17 7 17 7 17 7
781 emacs 329 4 406 4 402 4 402 4 402 4
782 epoc 34 8 35 8 31 8 31 8 31 8
783 h2pl 24 15 24 15 12 15 12 15 12 15
784 hints 377 98 381 98 385 100 368 97 368 97
785 mad 182 8 182 8 174 8 174 8 174 8
786 mint 11 9 11 9 3 9 - - - -
787 mpeix 49 6 49 6 45 6 45 6 45 6
788 NetWare 489 61 489 61 465 61 466 61 466 61
789 os2 552 70 552 70 507 70 507 70 507 70
790 plan9 324 17 324 17 316 17 316 17 316 17
791 Porting 627 40 632 40 933 53 749 54 749 54
792 qnx 5 3 5 4 1 4 1 4 1 4
793 symbian 300 54 300 54 290 54 288 54 288 54
794 utils 260 26 264 27 268 27 269 27 269 27
795 uts 12 3 12 3 8 3 8 3 8 3
796 vmesa 25 4 25 4 21 4 21 4 21 4
797 vms 690 32 722 32 693 30 645 18 645 18
798 vos 19 8 19 8 16 8 16 8 16 8
799 win32 1482 68 1485 68 1497 70 1841 73 1841 73
800 x2p 349 19 349 19 345 19 345 19 345 19
802 ======================================================================
808 Configure 536 1 536 1
817 NetWare 466 61 466 61
820 Porting 750 54 750 54
822 symbian 288 54 288 54
828 win32 1841 73 1841 73
831 =head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES
833 The "diff lines kB" means that for example the patch 5.003_08, to be
834 applied on top of the 5.003_07 (or whatever was before the 5.003_08)
835 added lines for 110 kilobytes, it removed lines for 19 kilobytes, and
836 changed lines for 424 kilobytes. Just the lines themselves are
837 counted, not their context. The "+ - !" become from the diff(1)
838 context diff output format.
840 Pump- Release Date diff lines kB
843 ======================================================================
845 Chip 5.003_08 1996-Nov-19 110 19 424
846 5.003_09 1996-Nov-26 38 9 248
847 5.003_10 1996-Nov-29 29 2 27
848 5.003_11 1996-Dec-06 73 12 165
849 5.003_12 1996-Dec-19 275 6 436
850 5.003_13 1996-Dec-20 95 1 56
851 5.003_14 1996-Dec-23 23 7 333
852 5.003_15 1996-Dec-23 0 0 1
853 5.003_16 1996-Dec-24 12 3 50
854 5.003_17 1996-Dec-27 19 1 14
855 5.003_18 1996-Dec-31 21 1 32
856 5.003_19 1997-Jan-04 80 3 85
857 5.003_20 1997-Jan-07 18 1 146
858 5.003_21 1997-Jan-15 38 10 221
859 5.003_22 1997-Jan-16 4 0 18
860 5.003_23 1997-Jan-25 71 15 119
861 5.003_24 1997-Jan-29 426 1 20
862 5.003_25 1997-Feb-04 21 8 169
863 5.003_26 1997-Feb-10 16 1 15
864 5.003_27 1997-Feb-18 32 10 38
865 5.003_28 1997-Feb-21 58 4 66
866 5.003_90 1997-Feb-25 22 2 34
867 5.003_91 1997-Mar-01 37 1 39
868 5.003_92 1997-Mar-06 16 3 69
869 5.003_93 1997-Mar-10 12 3 15
870 5.003_94 1997-Mar-22 407 7 200
871 5.003_95 1997-Mar-25 41 1 37
872 5.003_96 1997-Apr-01 283 5 261
873 5.003_97 1997-Apr-03 13 2 34
874 5.003_97a 1997-Apr-05 57 1 27
875 5.003_97b 1997-Apr-08 14 1 20
876 5.003_97c 1997-Apr-10 20 1 16
877 5.003_97d 1997-Apr-13 8 0 16
878 5.003_97e 1997-Apr-15 15 4 46
879 5.003_97f 1997-Apr-17 7 1 33
880 5.003_97g 1997-Apr-18 6 1 42
881 5.003_97h 1997-Apr-24 23 3 68
882 5.003_97i 1997-Apr-25 23 1 31
883 5.003_97j 1997-Apr-28 36 1 49
884 5.003_98 1997-Apr-30 171 12 539
885 5.003_99 1997-May-01 6 0 7
886 5.003_99a 1997-May-09 36 2 61
887 p54rc1 1997-May-12 8 1 11
888 p54rc2 1997-May-14 6 0 40
890 5.004 1997-May-15 4 0 4
892 Tim 5.004_01 1997-Jun-13 222 14 57
893 5.004_02 1997-Aug-07 112 16 119
894 5.004_03 1997-Sep-05 109 0 17
895 5.004_04 1997-Oct-15 66 8 173
897 =head3 The patch-free era
899 In more modern times, named releases don't come as often, and as progress
900 can be followed (nearly) instantly (with rsync, and since late 2008, git)
901 patches between versions are no longer provided. However, that doesn't
902 keep us from calculating how large a patch could have been. Which is
903 shown in the table below. Unless noted otherwise, the size mentioned is
904 the patch to bring version x.y.z to x.y.z+1.
906 Sarathy 5.6.1 2001-Apr-08 531 44 651
907 Rafael 5.6.2 2003-Nov-15 20 11 1819
909 Jarkko 5.8.0 2002-Jul-18 1205 31 471 From 5.7.3
911 5.8.1 2003-Sep-25 243 102 6162
912 Nicholas 5.8.2 2003-Nov-05 10 50 788
913 5.8.3 2004-Jan-14 31 13 360
914 5.8.4 2004-Apr-21 33 8 299
915 5.8.5 2004-Jul-19 11 19 255
916 5.8.6 2004-Nov-27 35 3 192
917 5.8.7 2005-May-30 75 34 778
918 5.8.8 2006-Jan-31 131 42 1251
919 5.8.9 2008-Dec-14 340 132 12988
921 Hugo 5.9.0 2003-Oct-27 281 168 7132 From 5.8.0
922 Rafael 5.9.1 2004-Mar-16 57 250 2107
923 5.9.2 2005-Apr-01 720 57 858
924 5.9.3 2006-Jan-28 1124 102 1906
925 5.9.4 2006-Aug-15 896 60 862
926 5.9.5 2007-Jul-07 1149 128 1062
928 5.10.0 2007-Dec-18 50 31 13111 From 5.9.5
931 =head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE RECORDS
933 Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>.
935 Thanks to the collective memory of the Perlfolk. In addition to the
936 Keepers of the Pumpkin also Alan Champion, Mark Dominus,
937 Andreas KE<0xf6>nig, John Macdonald, Matthias Neeracher, Jeff Okamoto,
938 Michael Peppler, Randal Schwartz, and Paul D. Smith sent corrections
939 and additions. Abigail added file and patch size data for the 5.6.0 - 5.10