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From: Kurt Jaeger <lists@opsec.eu>
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Subject: Re: Perl upgrade - 5.20.x vulnerable
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Hi!

> Just a question: so there is a stable version (5.20 in this case) - see 
> in the ports collection that it is possible to install up to v5.24. Does 
> that mean that 5.20+ versions aren't stable or how should I interprete 
> these version availabilities?

I'm using 5.20, 5.22 and 5.24 on different boxes for different
use cases, no issues in general.

But: There's one issue that keeps me on 5.20 for some production boxes:
mod_perl has problems with newer versions of perl. See

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209459

for details. If you do not plan to use mod_perl, there should
be no issue.

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