Upgrade Perl from 5.6 to 5.24

Question

We are currently using 5.6 version of Perl in our organisation, along with MySQL and Apache, but now the client wants to upgrade Perl to v5.24.

What are all the major changes and key points that must be kept in mind before starting an upgrade?

I surfed a lot, but I didn't find anything interesting for moving from 5.6 to 5.24.

Is it advisable to move from this much lower version to advanced level?

Answer 1

Is it advisable to move from this much lower version to advanced level?

Absolutely yes. The Perl 5 team have worked very hard to remove bugs and add features to every release of Perl while keeping 100% backward-compatibility through every release of Perl 5.

If you encounter any problems then it will be because of dubious code or because a warning is now issued because of newly-deprecated syntax.