The current released version of Perl is 5.6.1. You can download it from CPAN here.
I recommend that you take advantage of Craig Berry's fine 5.6.1 easy-to-install release, with many goodies built in. Read all about it here , or download it here .
The pages below are available, but a lot of the information is dated. We'll be working to update the content in the next few weeks. If anyone has some good links, some pages they'd like linked in here, or any other pointers email me.
And you should definitely check out The Perl
Journal,
a quarterly magazine dedicated to all things Perl
