In what month of year 2025 perl 5.42.0 will be released

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perl 5.42.0 will not be released in 2025

Perl 5.42.0 is the upcoming new release of the Perl language.

This question is about the month when the new 5.42.0 version will be released.

When this question was created the 5.42.0 release has no scheduled date — https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/a73cdaecc7e625c976c1806ebdcb715321d892e3/Porting/release_schedule.pod

Here is the table with the release dates of the previous major versions of perl:

v5.12.0     2010-04-12
v5.14.0     2011-05-14
v5.16.0     2012-05-20
v5.18.0     2013-05-18
v5.20.0     2014-05-27
v5.22.0     2015-06-01
v5.24.0     2016-05-09
v5.26.0     2017-05-30
v5.28.0     2018-06-22
v5.30.0     2019-05-22
v5.32.0     2020-06-20
v5.34.0     2021-05-20
v5.36.0     2022-05-27
v5.38.0     2023-07-02
v5.40.0     2024-06-04

You can get this table with the command:

$ corelist -r | perl -nalE 'if (/v\d+\.(\d?[02468])\.0 /) { say $_ if $1 >= 12 }'

(Run this command online: https://perlbanjo.com/c1f77ca7bd )

This question will be resolved shortly after 5.42.0 is released or after this question is closed early in 2026 if 5.42.0 is not released in 2025.

The resolution of this quesiton will be the month from the output of the command run in perl >= 5.42.0

$ corelist -r | grep 5.42.0

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I'm resolving this market to 07 (July)

As per market description:

> The resolution of this quesiton will be the month from the output of the command > run in perl >= 5.42.0
>
> $ corelist -r | grep 5.42.0

Running this comman in perl 5.42.0 outputs:

v5.42.0 2025-07-02

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