Perl Perl is a family of two high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming languages. "Perl" refers to Perl 5, but from 2000 to 2019 it also referred to its redesigned "sister language", Perl 6, before the latter's name was offic ...

is an

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whose first version, 1.0, was released in 1987. The following table contains the Perl 5 version history, showing its release versions. Not all versions are covered yet. Note that additional minor release versions are not shown in this chart, unless they include notable changes or are the latest supported version. Additional information can be found o
the official Perl website

Version history

Note tha
Perl Maintenance and Support Policy
is to "support the two most recent stable release series". Release numbers use semantic versioning since 5.6, where even-numbered minor versions (e.g. 5.36) are stable releases, and odd numbers are experimental development versions. The patch number is usually omitted in discussions of Perl versions.

References

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