http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2003/perl-5.8.2.html
5.8.2 is being released to fix minor binary incompatibilities discovered between 5.8.1 and 5.8.0. 5.8.2 is fully binary compatible with 5.8.0, and wherever possible also binary compatible with 5.8.1. The release also provides other minor bugfixes, including several for ithreads. Please see the perldelta (http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.2/pod/perldelta.pod) for the full details.

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2004/perl-5.8.3.html
5.8.3 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes, including eliminating a couple of errors in Perl's UTF8 handling. Please see the perldelta (http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.3/pod/perl583delta.pod) for the full details.

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2004/perl-5.8.4.html
5.8.4 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. This release updates Perl to the Unicode Character Database, Version 4.0.1, and fixes some minor errors in Perl's UTF8 handling. It provides optimisations for Unicode case conversion functions, map and sort, and on most platforms now provides protection against memory wrapping attacks. Please see the perldelta (http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.4/pod/perl584delta.pod) for the full details.

http://dev.perl.org/perl5/news/2004/perl-5.8.5.html
5.8.5 is a maintenance release for perl 5.8, incorporating various minor bugfixes and optimisations. Please see the perldelta (http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.5/pod/perl585delta.pod) for the full details. Please report bugs using the perlbug utility. If the build or regression tests fail, make nok. If the build fails to early to run this, please mail perlbug at perl.org directly.

