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The Perl Steering Council has posted a
blog entry on its plans for the language and when Perl 7 might be
released.

For now, our plan is to continue introducing new features and to
resolve all existing experimental features, so they’re either
dropped, or become non-experimental features (and so are included
in the version bundle).

The downside with this is that people often can’t remember which
version of Perl introduced which feature(s).

At some point in the future, the PSC may decide that the set of
features, taken together, represent a big enough step forward to
justify a new baseline for Perl. If that happens, then the version
will be bumped to 7.0.