New minimum Perl version: 5.6.1

by Jay Allen

In the last release and in a number of user surveys, we asked what version of Perl people were running and the overwhelming majority of you told us that you were running Perl 5.6.1 or above — mostly above. Hence, we have raised the minimum supported version of Perl to v5.6.1 in order to take advantage of several of the features in these later versions of the Perl core.

Before you update your Movable Type system files, you should load mt-check.cgi first to find out what version you are currently running. If you are not running v5.6.1 or above, you should not update your installation! Instead, you should write a nice email to your web host to let them know that you would appreciate an upgrade to any version of Perl released in the last five years.

Posted on June 2, 2006 3:01 PM in Known issues