Perl 5.8.0 Released
dev.perl.org - Perl 5.8.0 Release Announcement
Highlights: Better Unicode support, new threads implementation, new IO implementation, better numeric accuracy (always a good thing, right?), 64-bit support, safe signals, new modules (Digest::MD5, File::Temp, Filter::Simple, libnet, List::Util, Memoize, MIME::Base64, Scalar::Util, Storable, Switch, Test::More, Test::Simple, Text::Balanced, Tie::File, others), extensive regression testing.