20:24 tobez 

Upgrade to 5.8.8.

Also:
Do not strip when built with -DWITH_DEBUGGING. [1]
Do not build non-threaded perl with -pthread. [2]
Add rebuild-xs target which should be used when
perl-after-upgrade does not do its job adequately. [3]
Fix perl-after-upgrade to handle threaded perl. [4]

Submitted by:   John Narron <jnarron@cdsinet.net> [2],
                Sergey Prikhodko <sergey@network-asp.biz> [4],
                parv@pair.com [1],
                pavel@ctk.ru [2],
                skv [3],
                vasilis <vasilis@karkampounas.gr> [2]
PR:     83223 [4], 83767 [2], 84255 [2], 89443 [1], 90832 [2]

09:17 tobez 

Upgrade to 5.8.7.  In addition:

    - add perl-after-upgrade utility to move around
      dependent packages
    - fix $0 expansion in use.perl [1]
    - enable threaded perl on amd64 [2]
    - always compile perl with -pthread [3]
    - fix errno issue in SDBM_File [4]
    - add support for // and err (defined-or) [5]
    - add WITH_DEBUGGING option [6]
    - fix suidperl symlink [7]
    - fix several small bugs in use.perl
    - print possible WITH_XXX flags (no OPTIONS support yet)

[1] Submitted by:       erwin, Niël Dogger <niel@introweb.nl>
[2] Nudged by:          Mike Schroll <FreeBSD@LogicX.us>
[3] Nudged by:          skv
[4] perl bug #35938
[5] Obtained from:      H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
[6] PR: 78811, submitted by:    skv
[7] PR: 80069, submitted by:    Sergey N. Voronkov <serg@tmn.ru>
    A different solution was actually implemented.