The CPAN shell will of course continue to work if you would like to build the modules directly from source. You’ll be able to access the ppm repositories for another six months, but the modules will no longer be updated with new releases from CPAN. If you’re currently running ActivePerl 5.8 or 5.10 Community Edition, you can continue to do so.
ACTIVEPERL 5.8.6 BUILD 811 SOFTWARE
Perl 5 is maintained by a group of volunteers who’s primary interest is the development of a useful, stable, modern implementation of the language. While there’s nothing particularly broken about the latest releases of Perl 5.8 and 5.10, if something were broken or vulnerable, the perl5-porters won’t be fixing it “officially”. We used an analogy about stale bread to illustrate the point, but someone on reddit summed it up much more succinctly: “ The good stuff is free, the old broken stuff will cost you“. Last year, We wrote a post about our rationale for removing older builds from Community Edition. When the underlying Perl version becomes “unsupported” by the Perl community itself, support for and access to the corresponding ActivePerl versions will be limited to Team, Business and Enterprise Tier subscription customers only. We’re bringing ActivePerl Community Edition in line with the maintenance and support policy of the perl5-porters. These versions can be licensed by our Team Tier (or higher) subscribers, although no support or maintenance is provided.
ACTIVEPERL 5.8.6 BUILD 811 FOR FREE
ActivePerl Community Edition 5.8 and 5.10 are no longer available for free download.