X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/blobdiff_plain/a1d0ba3571cf0b92a55f12773f40dfc15a0fe460..67fbae813abe5e9ea6db14dedec317efbbed87b3:/pod/perlhist.pod diff --git a/pod/perlhist.pod b/pod/perlhist.pod index 58700d3..f27f6a5 100644 --- a/pod/perlhist.pod +++ b/pod/perlhist.pod @@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ This document aims to record the Perl source code releases. Perl history in brief, by Larry Wall: - Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates. - Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to - /(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\) - Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package. - Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls). - Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just - switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000. - Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to - introduce everything else. + Perl 0 introduced Perl to my officemates. + Perl 1 introduced Perl to the world, and changed /\(...\|...\)/ to + /(...|...)/. \(Dan Faigin still hasn't forgiven me. :-\) + Perl 2 introduced Henry Spencer's regular expression package. + Perl 3 introduced the ability to handle binary data (embedded nulls). + Perl 4 introduced the first Camel book. Really. We mostly just + switched version numbers so the book could refer to 4.000. + Perl 5 introduced everything else, including the ability to + introduce everything else. =head1 THE KEEPERS OF THE PUMPKIN @@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ Leon Brocard, Dave Mitchell, Jesse Vincent, Ricardo Signes, Steve Hay, Matt S Trout, David Golden, Florian Ragwitz, Tatsuhiko Miyagawa, Chris C Williams, Zefram, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Stevan Little, Dave Rolsky, Max Maischein, Abigail, Jesse Luehrs, Tony Cook, -Dominic Hargreaves, and Aaron Crane. +Dominic Hargreaves, Aaron Crane, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Matthew Horsfall +and Peter Martini. =head2 PUMPKIN? @@ -467,6 +468,9 @@ the strings?). Florian 5.14.2-RC1 2011-Sep-19 5.14.2 2011-Sep-26 Dominic 5.14.3 2012-Oct-12 + David M 5.14.4-RC1 2013-Mar-05 + David M 5.14.4-RC2 2013-Mar-07 + David M 5.14.4 2013-Mar-10 David G 5.15.0 2011-Jun-20 The 5.15 development track Zefram 5.15.1 2011-Jul-20 @@ -485,6 +489,8 @@ the strings?). Ricardo 5.16.0 2012-May-20 The 5.16 maintenance track Ricardo 5.16.1 2012-Aug-08 Ricardo 5.16.2 2012-Nov-01 + Ricardo 5.16.3-RC1 2013-Mar-06 + Ricardo 5.16.3 2013-Mar-11 Zefram 5.17.0 2012-May-26 The 5.17 development track Jesse L 5.17.1 2012-Jun-20 @@ -496,6 +502,53 @@ the strings?). Dave R 5.17.7 2012-Dec-18 Aaron 5.17.8 2013-Jan-20 BinGOs 5.17.9 2013-Feb-20 + Max M 5.17.10 2013-Mar-21 + Ricardo 5.17.11 2013-Apr-20 + + Ricardo 5.18.0-RC1 2013-May-11 The 5.18 maintenance track + Ricardo 5.18.0-RC2 2013-May-12 + Ricardo 5.18.0-RC3 2013-May-13 + Ricardo 5.18.0-RC4 2013-May-15 + Ricardo 5.18.0 2013-May-18 + Ricardo 5.18.1-RC1 2013-Aug-01 + Ricardo 5.18.1-RC2 2013-Aug-03 + Ricardo 5.18.1-RC3 2013-Aug-08 + Ricardo 5.18.1 2013-Aug-12 + Ricardo 5.18.2 2014-Jan-06 + Ricardo 5.18.3-RC1 2014-Sep-17 + Ricardo 5.18.3-RC2 2014-Sep-27 + Ricardo 5.18.3 2014-Oct-01 + Ricardo 5.18.4 2014-Oct-01 + + Ricardo 5.19.0 2013-May-20 The 5.19 development track + David G 5.19.1 2013-Jun-21 + Aristotle 5.19.2 2013-Jul-22 + Steve 5.19.3 2013-Aug-20 + Steve 5.19.4 2013-Sep-20 + Steve 5.19.5 2013-Oct-20 + BinGOs 5.19.6 2013-Nov-20 + Abigail 5.19.7 2013-Dec-20 + Ricardo 5.19.8 2014-Jan-20 + TonyC 5.19.9 2014-Feb-20 + Aaron 5.19.10 2014-Mar-20 + Steve 5.19.11 2014-Apr-20 + + Ricardo 5.20.0-RC1 2014-May-16 The 5.20 maintenance track + Ricardo 5.20.0 2014-May-27 + Steve 5.20.1-RC1 2014-Aug-25 + Steve 5.20.1-RC2 2014-Sep-07 + Steve 5.20.1 2014-Sep-14 + Steve 5.20.2-RC1 2015-Jan-31 + + Ricardo 5.21.0 2014-May-27 The 5.21 development track + Matthew H 5.21.1 2014-Jun-20 + Abigail 5.21.2 2014-Jul-20 + Peter 5.21.3 2014-Aug-20 + Steve 5.21.4 2014-Sep-20 + Abigail 5.21.5 2014-Oct-20 + BinGOs 5.21.6 2014-Nov-20 + Max M 5.21.7 2014-Dec-20 + Matthew H 5.21.8 2015-Jan-20 =head2 SELECTED RELEASE SIZES @@ -575,6 +628,8 @@ explained below. 5.12.3 5004 100 1146 121 15529 2180 6417 1848 5391 171 5.14.0 5328 104 1100 114 17779 2479 7697 2130 5871 188 5.16.0 5562 109 1077 80 20504 2702 8750 2375 4815 152 + 5.18.0 5892 113 1088 79 20077 2760 9365 2439 4943 154 + 5.20.0 6243 115 1187 75 19499 2701 9620 2457 5145 159 The "core"..."doc" mean the following files from the Perl source code distribution. The glob notation ** means recursively, (.) means @@ -850,32 +905,54 @@ the Perl source distribution for somewhat more selected releases. ====================================================================== - 5.12.2 5.12.3 5.14.0 5.16.0 - - apollo 0 3 0 3 - - - - - beos 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 - Configure 536 1 536 1 539 1 547 1 - Cross 118 15 118 15 118 15 118 15 - djgpp 17 7 17 7 18 7 18 7 - emacs 402 4 402 4 - - - - - epoc 31 8 31 8 32 8 30 8 - h2pl 12 15 12 15 15 15 15 15 - hints 368 97 368 97 370 96 371 96 - mad 174 8 174 8 176 8 176 8 - mpeix 45 6 45 6 46 6 46 6 - NetWare 466 61 466 61 473 61 472 61 - os2 507 70 507 70 518 70 519 70 - plan9 316 17 316 17 319 17 319 17 - Porting 750 54 750 54 855 60 1093 69 - qnx 1 4 1 4 2 4 2 4 - symbian 288 54 288 54 292 54 292 54 - utils 269 27 269 27 249 29 245 30 - uts 8 3 8 3 9 3 9 3 - vmesa 21 4 21 4 22 4 22 4 - vms 646 18 644 18 639 17 571 15 - vos 16 8 16 8 17 8 9 7 - win32 1841 73 1841 73 1833 72 1655 67 - x2p 345 19 345 19 346 19 345 19 + 5.12.2 5.12.3 5.14.0 5.16.0 5.18.0 + + apollo 0 3 0 3 - - - - - - + beos 4 4 4 4 5 4 5 4 - - + Configure 536 1 536 1 539 1 547 1 550 1 + Cross 118 15 118 15 118 15 118 15 118 15 + djgpp 17 7 17 7 18 7 18 7 18 7 + emacs 402 4 402 4 - - - - - - + epoc 31 8 31 8 32 8 30 8 - - + h2pl 12 15 12 15 15 15 15 15 13 15 + hints 368 97 368 97 370 96 371 96 354 91 + mad 174 8 174 8 176 8 176 8 174 8 + mpeix 45 6 45 6 46 6 46 6 - - + NetWare 466 61 466 61 473 61 472 61 469 61 + os2 507 70 507 70 518 70 519 70 510 70 + plan9 316 17 316 17 319 17 319 17 318 17 + Porting 750 54 750 54 855 60 1093 69 1149 70 + qnx 1 4 1 4 2 4 2 4 1 4 + symbian 288 54 288 54 292 54 292 54 290 54 + utils 269 27 269 27 249 29 245 30 246 31 + uts 8 3 8 3 9 3 9 3 - - + vmesa 21 4 21 4 22 4 22 4 - - + vms 646 18 644 18 639 17 571 15 564 15 + vos 16 8 16 8 17 8 9 7 8 7 + win32 1841 73 1841 73 1833 72 1655 67 1157 62 + x2p 345 19 345 19 346 19 345 19 344 20 + + ====================================================================== + + 5.20.0 + + Configure 552 1 + Cross 118 15 + NetWare 467 61 + Porting 1204 68 + djgpp 18 7 + h2pl 13 15 + hints 355 90 + mad 174 8 + os2 510 70 + plan9 316 17 + qnx 1 4 + symbian 290 54 + utils 241 27 + vms 538 12 + vos 8 7 + win32 1183 64 + x2p 341 19 =head2 SELECTED PATCH SIZES