Perl 5.40.0 is the upcoming new release of the Perl language. 

This market is about the month when the new 5.40.0 version will be released. 

When this market was created the 5.40.0 release was scheduled to be on 2024-05-20 — 

https://github.com/Perl/perl5/blob/5fdf6e90221900a85cd3091bd2755e41fc230d4d/Porting/release_schedule.pod?plain=1#L54

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


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


This market will be resolved shortly after 5.40.0 is released or after this market is closed early in 2025 if 5.40.0 is not released in 2024. 

The resolution of this market will be the month from the output of the command run in perl >= 5.40.0

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