The first release candidate for Perl 5.12 is out, sort off. Quoting Jesse Vincent on p5p:

There won't be a formal release announcement of this one, as it's even more "just a snapshot" than any recent blead release.

ec32898f89531e187f7daf7f9f28c15686845996 perl-5.12.0-RC0.tar.gz

More than anything else, this release is just to get everyone smoking something calling itself 5.12.0. Not surprisingly, that's already turned up a few issues in early smokes.

To be able to ship a 5.12.0-RC1, we need to understand why any smoke servers are failing and either fix the bugs in a minimally-invasive way or TODO the tests (if appropriate).

Right now, the smoke reports are awfully black looking:

www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.daily-build.reports/

One item that catches my eye is that most of the win32 smokes seem to be failing the same test in io_sock.t

This is the time for the Perl community to do something. Test your code now. Waiting for the release of 5.12 to test your code means waiting a long time before any bugs will be fixed. Build perl, test your code, report the status.