Jesse Vincent writes that the final development release of Perl 5.11.3 before the freeze has been made generally available.
Schwern has completed gitPAN, the complete CPAN archive onto github. Now you can access anything in CPAN in all it's gory/beautiful detail!
In case you hadn't noticed Perl has quite a tradition of running web advent calendars. This year we are blessed with quite a few. Have a look and enjoy with Mince Tarts...
A new site has launched for Perl hackers to blog about Perl and related things - blogs.perl.org. It's great to see a modern-looking blogging platform site for the Perl community, which has been stuck with the mid-90s design of use.perl until now. As well as a nice clean design, the new site also offers some useful features that are missing on use.perl, such as syntax-highlighting for code blocks, and embedding of images into posts. Hopefully people will shift to the new site quickly, and eventually Google results for random Perl-related searches will end up on a site that gives a better impression of the Perl community.
Ranguard writes: Well, it's taken me 6 weeks of evenings and the odd weekend, but I'm proud to say the new www.perl.org site has just gone live. This is a complete redesign and content review. Hopefully it's cleaner and easier for people to actually get the information they are after.
From Gabor Szabo: Padre 0.50 Released. I am happy to announce this round version number of Padre (the Perl IDE). Does that mean we are half-way to the 1.0 release? Will people think that a 1.00 release can't be good so they need to wait for the 2.03 release to start using Padre? We'll see if we need to play with version numbers to communicate something or if we can just steadily increase at every release.
From Gabor Szabo: Padre 0.48 released . I am happy to announce the release of version 0.48 of Padre, the Perl IDE. Padre is written in Perl and it aims to be the best editor for writing Perl scripts and applications, both in Perl 5 and in Perl 6.
From Jesse via perl.perl5.porters: Turning blead into a stable release of Perl is a lot of work. Doing it well is even more work. As it looks like we're coming to a consensus on a smaller set of changes making it into point releases, it's increasingly important that our .0 releases are well tested, well polished and good enough to run in production. To that end, it's really important that we work through the perlbug queue to identify issues which might block the release of 5.12.0.
nuba writes "We are proud to announce the YAPC::Brasil 2009, to be held from 30/October to 1/November in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.