Version 5.8.9.3 RC2, released 17 Oct 2009
Check out what is new, what known issues there are, and frequently asked questions about this version of Strawberry Perl. As always, you're encouraged to tell us what you think.
| Distribution | Version |
| ExtUtils-MakeMaker | 6.54 |
| File-Path | 2.08 |
| ExtUtils-Command | 1.16 |
| Win32API-File | 0.1101 |
| ExtUtils-Install | 1.54 |
| ExtUtils-Manifest | 1.57 |
| Test-Harness | 3.17 |
| Test-Simple | 0.94 |
| ExtUtils-CBuilder | 0.260301 |
| ExtUtils-ParseXS | 2.21 |
| version | 0.7702 |
| Scalar-List-Utils | 1.21 |
| Compress-Raw-Zlib | 2.021 |
| Compress-Raw-Bzip2 | 2.021 |
| IO-Compress | 2.022 |
| Compress-Bzip2 | 2.09 |
| IO-Zlib | 1.10 |
| PathTools | 3.30 |
| File-Temp | 0.22 |
| Win32-WinError | 0.03 |
| Win32API-Registry | 0.30 |
| Win32-TieRegistry | 0.26 |
| File-HomeDir | 0.86 |
| IPC-Run3 | 0.043 |
| Probe-Perl | 0.01 |
| Test-Script | 1.06 |
| File-Which | 1.09 |
| Archive-Zip | 1.30 |
| Package-Constants | 0.02 |
| IO-String | 1.08 |
| Archive-Tar | 1.54 |
| Compress-unLZMA | 0.03 |
| Parse-CPAN-Meta | 1.40 |
| YAML | 0.70 |
| Digest-MD5 | 2.39 |
| Digest-SHA1 | 2.12 |
| Digest-SHA | 5.47 |
| Module-Build | 0.3500_01 |
| CPAN | 1.94_52 |
| TermReadKey | 2.30.01 |
| Term-ReadLine-Perl | 1.0302 |
| Text-Glob | 0.08 |
| Data-Dumper | 2.125 |
| URI | 1.40 |
| HTML-Tagset | 3.20 |
| HTML-Parser | 3.62 |
| libwww-perl | 5.833 |
| Attribute-Handlers | 0.87 |
| AutoLoader | 5.70 |
| B-Debug | 1.11 |
| Class-ISA | 0.36 |
| Devel-PPPort | 3.19 |
| Digest | 1.16 |
| Encode | 2.37 |
| Filter-Simple | 0.84 |
| Getopt-Long | 2.38 |
| IO | 1.25 |
| MIME-Base64 | 3.08 |
| Math-BigRat | 0.24 |
| Math-Complex | 1.56 |
| Module-CoreList | 2.20 |
| Module-Pluggable | 3.9 |
| NEXT | 0.64 |
| Net-Ping | 2.36 |
| Pod-Parser | 1.38 |
| Pod-Perldoc | 3.15 |
| Pod-Plainer | 1.01 |
| Safe | 2.19 |
| Storable | 2.21 |
| Switch | 2.14 |
| Test-Harness-Straps | 0.30 |
| Text-Balanced | 2.02 |
| Time-HiRes | 1.9719 |
| Win32 | 0.39 |
| base | 2.14 |
| constant | 1.19 |
| threads | 1.74 |
| threads-shared | 1.31 |
| FCGI | 0.67 |
| CGI.pm | 3.48 |
| autodie | 2.06 |
| Filter | 1.37 |
| Pod-Escapes | 1.04 |
| Pod-Simple | 3.08 |
| podlators | 2.2.2 |
| ANSIColor | 2.02 |
| Text-Tabs+Wrap | 2009.0305 |
| Win32-Process | 0.14 |
| IPC-System-Simple | 1.18 |
| LWP-Online | 1.07 |
| Win32-File | 0.06 |
| File-Remove | 1.42 |
| Win32-File-Object | 0.02 |
| Win32-API | 0.59 |
| Parse-Binary | 0.11 |
| Win32-Exe | 0.11 |
| Win32-EventLog | 0.076 |
| Math-Pari | 2.010801 |
| Math-BigInt-GMP | 1.24 |
| XML-Parser | 2.36 |
| XML-NamespaceSupport | 1.10 |
| XML-SAX | 0.96 |
| XML-LibXML | 1.70 |
| XML-LibXSLT | 1.70 |
| PAR-Dist | 0.46 |
| PAR-Dist-FromPPD | 0.03 |
| PAR-Dist-InstallPPD | 0.02 |
| Tree-DAG_Node | 1.06 |
| Sub-Uplevel | 0.2002 |
| Test-Warn | 0.21 |
| Test-Tester | 0.107 |
| Test-NoWarnings | 0.084 |
| Test-Deep | 0.106 |
| IO-stringy | 2.110 |
| DBM-Deep | 1.0013 |
| YAML-Tiny | 1.40 |
| PAR | 0.994 |
| PAR-Repository-Query | 0.14 |
| PAR-Repository-Client | 0.25 |
| PPM | 0.01_01 |
| Number-Compare | 0.01 |
| File-Find-Rule | 0.30 |
| Data-Compare | 1.2101 |
| File-chmod | 0.32 |
| Params-Util | 1.00 |
| CPAN-Checksums | 2.04 |
| CPAN-Inject | 0.11 |
| File-pushd | 1.00 |
| pler | 0.34 |
| pip | 0.13 |
| DBI | 1.609 |
| DBD-SQLite | 1.25 |
| CPAN-DistnameInfo | 0.08 |
| CPAN-SQLite | 0.198 |
| DB_File | 1.820 |
| DBD-ODBC | 1.23 |
| DBD-mysql | 4.012 |
| DBD-Pg | 2.15.1 |
| common-sense | 2.01 |
| JSON-XS | 2.26 |
| JSON | 2.15 |
| local-lib | 1.004007 |
| Imager | 0.70 |
| GD | 2.44 |
| Crypt-SSLeay | 0.57 |
| Net-SSLeay | 1.35 |
| Digest-HMAC | 1.01 |
| IO-Socket-SSL | 1.31 |
| Net-SMTP-TLS | 0.12 |
| Data-Random | 0.05 |
| Math-GMP | 2.06 |
| Data-Buffer | 0.04 |
| Crypt-DSA | 1.16 |
| Class-ErrorHandler | 0.01 |
| Convert-ASN1 | 0.22 |
| Crypt-CBC | 2.30 |
| Crypt-DES | 2.05 |
| Crypt-DES_EDE3 | 0.01 |
| Convert-PEM | 0.07 |
| Crypt-DH | 0.06 |
| Crypt-Blowfish | 2.10 |
| Tie-EncryptedHash | 1.24 |
| Class-Loader | 2.03 |
| Crypt-Random | 1.25 |
| Convert-ASCII-Armour | 1.4 |
| Digest-MD2 | 2.03 |
| Sort-Versions | 1.5 |
| Crypt-Primes | 0.50 |
| Crypt-RSA | 1.99 |
| Digest-BubbleBabble | 0.01 |
| Crypt-IDEA | 1.08 |
| String-CRC32 | 1.4 |
| Test-Manifest | 1.23 |
| Crypt-Rijndael | 1.07 |
| Crypt-CAST5_PP | 1.04 |
| Crypt-RIPEMD160 | 0.04 |
| Crypt-Twofish | 2.13 |
| Crypt-OpenPGP | 1.03 |
| Algorithm-Diff | 1.1902 |
| Text-Diff | 1.37 |
| Module-Signature | 0.55 |
The list of packages used in the toolchain is available here.