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Perl

Perl 5.38

The perl package has been upgraded to version 5.38, which provides multiple bug fixes and enhancements. Notable changes include:

New class feature - new experimental syntax is now available for defining object classes, where per-instance data is stored in "field" variables that behave like lexicals.
Support for Unicode 15.0 encoding standard.
Locale category LC_NAME is now supported on the participating platforms.
Deprecation warnings now have specific subcategories - it is still possible to disable all deprecation warnings in a single statement. However, now it is possible to have a more fine-grain control.
Syntax errors no longer produce phantom error messages.
The readline() function no longer clears the stream error and eof flags.

For more details, see the upstream release notes.