Perl 5.12.3 represents approximately four months of development since Perl 5.12.2 and contains approximately 2500 lines of changes across 54 files from 16 authors.

Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.12.3:

[...], Father Chrysostomos, [...] !!!

Good to see Father Chrysostomos cranking out the code in between delivering presents around the world with his team of flying reindeer. Um. Seems like there's at least one Joycean nerd Perl hacker out there, I seem to remember that this is a coinage from near the beginning of Ulysses and it translates from ancient greek into modern English as Golden Mouth?