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Summer 2000 – Development of Perl 6 was announced. Attempts to change Perl 5 in any major way were forthwith redirected to the Perl 6 project, as Perl 5 was now supposed to go into maintenance mode. Yet no one knew at that time that even 10 years later Perl 6 would be in no position to replace Perl 5 for the vast majority of its users.

Perl 5.8 – July 18, 2002

Perl 5.10 – Dec 22, 2007

Summer 2009 – Jesse Vincent sets up release schedule, eventually takes over Perl Pumpking (Perl Development Manager), credited with re-energizing and focusing Perl improvements.

Perl 5.12 – April 2010