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ActivePerl is the industry-standard Perl distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. 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.

ActivePerl 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: Sun and ActiveState installer packages
- Linux: Redhat, Debian and ActiveState installer packages
- HP-UX: ActiveState installer packages
- AIX: ActiveState installer packages
Complete online documentation

Access the complete online documentation here.

ActivePerl 5.10.0

Latest release: ActivePerl 5.10.0.1004

New in ActivePerl 5.10.0.1004:

Uses the new and more comprehensive PPM repositories (on Windows and Linux), as well as the latest PPM 4.3 client, which is a lot faster at updating repository information
Many bug fixes and changes since build 1003
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

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Other Systems and Versions

ActivePerl 5.8.8.824

Latest release: ActivePerl 5.8.8.824, based on Perl 5.8.8

New in ActivePerl 5.8.8.824

One year's worth of bug fixes and improvements from the Perl maintenance track, as well as many new modules including Crypt::SSLeay, DBD::Oracle and lots of others
The latest PPM 4.3 client, which is a lot faster at updating repository information
For a complete list of changes, see the release notes.

ActivePerl 5.8 Highlights
- This series is based on core Perl 5.8.8. 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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