Perl 5.8.0 RC 1 has been released. This is a release candidate, and not for production environment. Please download it (from your local CPAN mirror), and give it a whirl. Read the perldelta to see the changes.

mod_perl 1.99_02 (devel) has been released (for Apache 2.0.x), and 1.27 (stable) has been released (for Apache 1.3.x).

Enjoy!