The Perl 5 Porters have released #Perl versions 5.40.2 and 5.38.4 to address CVE-2024-56406. It is believed that this #security #vulnerability can enable Denial of Service or Arbitrary Code Execution attacks on platforms that lack sufficient defenses.

You can soon download both from your favorite #CPAN mirror or find them at:

https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.2/

https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.38.4/

Changes are listed in their respective “perldelta” documents:

https://metacpan.org/release/SHAY/perl-5.40.2/view/pod/perldelta.pod

Happy new year, #CPAN! 🎂

The Comprehensive #Perl Archive Network, CPAN, has been online publicly since 1995-10-26. By now it hosts over 250,000 modules in 40,000+ distributions by 6,700+ authors.

I publish solutions there since 2014, and I intend to continue for at least another decade.

Join the occasion by registering your account, upload your first module, or release a new version of your existing distribution!

How do you celebrate this year?