Perl 5.14.2 is now available

I like and use Perl and love seeing Perl news on HN, but do we really need the announcements of minor maintenance releases? Since people are voting it up, there is obviously some interest in it, but I don't get it. Plus, there's not even a changelog at the above link.

Perl has been completely replaced by Python for me. Perl was the second language I learned in around 1995 after learning Turbo Pascal in my pre-teens. Perl allowed me to learn the programming arts freely, the programs I wrote weren't pretty back then but they ran and performed a function. It let me experiment with CGI, GUIs and writing video games.<p>Thanks Perl. Pity you were so ugly and we had to break up but Python is "cleaner"[1] and I just couldn't stick with you.<p>[1] Personal preference I am not looking for a fight :)

Any idea on 5.14.0 for Strawberry Perl? Doesn't send a good signal when the Windows version starts to fall behind.

Cool. Nice to see the updates coming but it's rather lightweight and minor. Of all my pet projects and scripts, Perl ones hold the most value. Lala.com music downloader comes to mind.

Long live Perl! Let's hope we managed the porting of CPAN to Perl 6 sensibly.

What is this doing here? Flagged.