How many roads must a man walk down Before you call him a man? Yes, 'n' how many seas must a white dove sail Before she sleeps in the sand? Yes, 'n' how many times must the cannonballs fly Before they're forever banned? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind How many years can a mountain exist Before it's washed to the sea? Yes, 'n' how many years can some people exist Before they're allowed to be free? Yes, 'n' how many times can a man turn his head Pretending he just doesn't see? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind How many times must a man look up Before he can see the sky? Yes, 'n' how many ears must one man have Before he can hear people cry? Yes, 'n' how many deaths will it take till he knows That too many people have died? The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind The answer is blowin' in the wind -- Bob Dylan, Spring 1962 We are delighted to announce Perl 5.15.9, the tenth development release of Perl 5.15. You will soon be able to download Perl 5.15.9 from your favorite CPAN mirror or find it at: SHA1 digests for this release are: a66381386b6a276fddeda0cfb0631ff2d3d4e891 perl-5.15.9.tar.gz 993545b43e723cb5e99acafa78b626af08cdbb72 perl-5.15.9.tar.bz2 You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web. Acknowledgements Perl 5.15.9 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.15.8 and contains approximately 79,000 lines of changes across 530 files from 23 authors. Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.15.9: Aaron Crane, Abigail, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dave Rolsky, David Cantrell, David Golden, David Mitchell, Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, James E Keenan, Jesse Vincent, Karl Williamson, Marc Green, Max Maischein, Nicholas Clark, Pau Amma, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Tony Cook, Yves Orton, Zefram. The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker. Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for helping Perl to flourish. For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution. We expect this to be the last development release of Perl 5.15. The next major stable release of Perl 5, version 5.16.0, should appear in May 2012. Your Humble Release Manager, Abigail