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We are [SYNONYM FOR 'pleased'] to announce Perl [VERSION], the [N-TH]
development release of Perl 5.17.

You will soon be able to download Perl [VERSION] from your favorite CPAN
mirror or find it at:

https://metacpan.org/release/[AUTHOR]/perl-[VERSION]/

SHA1 digests for this release are:

 [TAR.GZ SHA1]   perl-[VERSION].tar.gz
 [TAR.BZ2 SHA1]  perl-[VERSION].tar.bz2

You can find a full list of changes in the file "perldelta.pod" located in
the "pod" directory inside the release and on the web.

[ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SECTION FROM PERLDELTA]

We expect to release Perl [NEXT BLEAD VERSION] on [FUTURE DATE].  The next
major stable release of Perl 5, version 5.18.0, should appear in May 2013.

[YOUR SALUATION HERE]