Perl: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Perl from Red Hat

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-10

What is Perl?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementPerl is a highly capable, feature-rich programming language with over 30 years of development.
 

The entire lifecycle of Perl

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Perl. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Perl (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
XPerl (Red Hat) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Perl (Red Hat)
 

Facts and figures about Perl

Product
Perl
Vendor
Red Hat
Latest version
4:5.32.1-481.el9
Number of releases
5
Number of versions
21
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
Artistic license 1.0 or GNU General Public License
Licence details
https://dev.perl.org/licenses/artistic.html
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl
 
 

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