release => '2000-03-23',
distro => {
debian => 'woody',
- redhat => '2.1',
- solaris => '9', # 2002-05 eol 2014-10
+ rhel => '2', # v5.6.0; also in red hat 7.0
+ solaris => '9', # v5.6.1; 2002-05 eol 2014-10
},
unicode => '3.0.1',
},
release => '2002-07-18',
distro => {
debian => 'sarge',
- redhat => '3.9',
+ rhel => '3', # v5.8.0; v5.8.8 in RHEL6 (2007-2014)
solaris => '10', # v5.8.4; 2005-01 eol 2021-01
+ centos => '3-5', # v5.8.0 in v3 (2004-03); v5.8.8 in v5 (eol 2017-03)
},
unicode => '3.2.0',
},
release => '2007-12-18',
distro => {
debian => 'lenny',
- redhat => '6.5',
+ rhel => '6', # v5.10.1
+ centos => '6', # v5.10.1 (2011-07 eol 2020-11)
},
unicode => '5.0.0',
},
],
release => '2012-05-20',
distro => {
- redhat => '7.0',
+ rhel => '7', # v5.16.3
+ centos => '7', # v5.16.3 (2014-07 eol 2024-06)
},
unicode => '6.1',
},
:>
<h1>Perl cheat sheets</h1>
+<p>The most significant features introduced for each version of the Perl scripting language.
+Depending on desired compatibility you'll want to support a minimum of
+<span title="on stable/enterprise platforms such as Solaris 10, RHEL 3, SLES 8">v5.8</span> or
+<span title="on up-to-date servers such as Debian wheezy, Ubuntu 12.04, CentOS 7">v5.14</span>.
+</p>
+
<:
my $info = do 'perl.inc.pl' or die $@ // $!;
for my $vernum (reverse sort keys %{$info}) {