The fourth maintenance release of Perl 5.8 has been released. "The Perl 5 developer team is pleased to announce the Perl Release 5.8.4, the fourth maintenance release of Perl 5.8. ...is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. This release updates Perl to the Unicode Character Database, Version 4.0.1, and fixes some minor errors in Perl's UTF8 handling. It provides optimisations for Unicode case conversion functions, map and sort, and on most platforms now provides protection against memory wrapping attacks. Please see the perldelta for the full details."
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