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ActivePerl is the industry-standard Perl distribution, available for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X. Developers worldwide rely on ActivePerl's completeness and ease-of-use, while corporate users protect their infrastructure and stay competitive with quality-assured ActivePerl Business Solutions.

Looking for access to older versions of ActivePerl or access to platform builds and repositories for Solaris, AIX and HP-UX? Check out ActivePerl Business Edition or choose the license that fits your needs here.

ActivePerl Community Edition is maintained on two tracks to support users who have moved to Perl 5.10, as well as those still using Perl 5.8.

Complete ActivePerl Package

Perl

Binary of core Perl distribution
Perl Package Manager

ActiveState's Perl extension installer and manager; allows for easy installation and management of modules and extensions
Installers
A variety of installers are available for quick installation of ActivePerl:
- Windows: Microsoft Windows (MSI) and ActiveState installer packages
- Mac OS X: Disk image containing the installer package
- Solaris: Available only in ActivePython Business Edtion
- Linux: Redhat, Debian and ActiveState installer packages
- HP-UX: Available only in ActivePython Business Edtion
- AIX: Available only in ActivePython Business Edtion
Complete online documentation

Access the complete online documentation here.

ActivePerl 5.10.0

Latest release: ActivePerl 5.10.0.1006

New in ActivePerl 5.10.0.1006:

PPM scans .packlist files newer than the corresponding PPM database for that install area.
On 32-bit Windows CPAN shell automatically downloads and installs the MinGW GCC compiler.
Modules shipped as part of core Perl now included in PPM database.
Bundled modules updated to latest version.
Security fixes.
For a complete list of changes, see the release notes.

ActivePerl 5.10 Highlights
Switch statement and smart-match operator

Defined-or operator

Many improvements to regular expressions

engine is no longer recursive: no more stack overflows

recursive patterns

named capture groups

possessive quantifiers

backtracking control verbs

relative backreferences

new say() function

lexical $_ variable

_ prototype

UNITCHECK blocks

state variables

stacked filetest operators

byte-order modifiers for pack() and unpack()

Additional core modules

Many bug fixes

Extended documentation

ActivePerl 5.8.9.826

Latest release: ActivePerl 5.8.9.826, based on Perl 5.8.9

New in ActivePerl 5.8.9.826

OpenSSL security fixes
-p filetest implemented on Windows
PerlEx no longer pretends to be mod_perl
Potential memory corruption in Perl for ISAPI fixed
Bundled modules updated to latest version
For a complete list of changes, see the release notes.

ActivePerl 5.8 Highlights
- This series is based on core Perl 5.8.9. Significant changes that have occurred in 5.8 development are documented in perldelta .
Modules
The Win32 module now includes the Win32::IsAdminUser() function that checks if the current interpreter runs with Administrator privileges

Time::HiRes now provides high resolution on Windows
Windows 2003

Support for Windows Server 2003
Large file access support
File manipulation facilities within perl can cope with files larger than 2GB or 4GB

Supported on all platforms
PPM

PPM4 is now included as the default ppm utility
Unicode support

ActivePerl 8xx series builds are not binary-compatible with the older 6xx and 5xx series builds. In particular, do not attempt to use extensions or PPM packages built for the 6xx and 5xx series builds with ActivePerl 8xx series builds and vice versa

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