Patches
Since Perl is constantly being honed and improved,
patches are sometimes made available through CPAN. Your
distribution is likely to have had most of the patches applied
already—run perl -v to check the patch level of your
distribution. Patches are sent out with complete instructions on
how to apply them using patch, which is
available from the GNU project.
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