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 Abigail Kenneth Albanowski Russ Allbery Brad Appleton Greg Bacon Robin Barker Vishal Bhatia Spider Boardman Tom Christiansen Mark-Jason Dominus Jan Dubois Dominic Dunlop Eric Fifer Hallvard B Furuseth M. J. T. Guy Jarkko Hietaniemi Tom Hughes Nick Ing-Simmons Andreas Koenig Douglas Lankshear Doug MacEachern Raphael Manfredi Paul Marquess Stephen McCamant Laszlo Molnar Hans Mulder Chris Nandor Matthias Neeracher Jeff Okamoto Ulrich Pfeifer Tom Phoenix Joshua Pritikin Peter Prymmer Norbert Pueschel Dean Roehrich Hugo van der Sanden Michael G Schwern Roderick Schertler Kurt D. Starsinic Benjamin Stuhl Dan Sugalski Nathan Torkington Larry W. Virden Johan Vromans Ilya Zakharevich And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: Charles Bailey Graham Barr Malcolm Beattie Tim Bunce Andy Dougherty Gurusamy Sarathy Chip Salzenberg And, of course, the Author of Perl: Larry Wall 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 --------------