Yes, "stableperl" maintains a small number of backported bugfixes to Perl 5.22: http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html http://blog.schmorp.de/2015

Yes, "stableperl" maintains a small number of backported bugfixes to Perl 5.22: http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html http://blog.schmorp.de/2015-06-06-a-stable-perl.html The author cites a couple of issues as the motivation behind the release.