About ActivePerl
The complete, quality-assured and ready-to-install Perl distribution for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows.

- Perl: Binary of core Perl distribution
- Perl Package Manager: ActiveState’s Perl extension installer and manager; allows for easy installation and management of modules and extensions
- Installers: A variety of installers are available for quick installation of ActivePerl:
- AIX: ActiveState installer packages
- HP-UX: ActiveState installer packages
- Linux: Redhat, Debian and ActiveState installer packages
- Mac OS X: Disk image containing the installer package
- Solaris: Sun and ActiveState installer packages
- Windows: Microsoft Windows (MSI) and ActiveState installer packages
- Complete online documentation

ActiveState also provides business solutions of dynamic languages, including enterprise distributions and OEM licensing, that offer guaranteed stability, expert support, unparalleled quality and cost-efficiency to organizations.

What’s New in this Version
- New switch statement and smart-match operator.
- Defined-or operator, plus many improvements to regular expressions.
- Engine is no longer recursive: no more stack overflows.