# pperl 0.6.1

*2026-07-16, 1 commit.*

- **`@INC`** is built by probing the host's library trees in the Arch,
  Debian and Fedora layouts, instead of holding one distribution's
  fixed paths. A directory from `-I` or `PERL5LIB` that holds versioned
  subdirectories, as `local::lib` and Carton trees built by perl5 do,
  has them added, nearest perl version first; architecture
  subdirectories are never added. A module built into pperl is always
  loaded in preference to a `.pm` file of the same name on disk.
- **`-E`, `-V` and `-V:key`**: `-E` enables `say` and the other
  optional features, as on perl5; it ran as `-e` before. `-V` prints
  perl5's configuration summary with the real `@INC`, including the
  effect of `-I` and `PERL5LIB`, and `-V:key` prints one configuration
  value, as in `-V:archname`.
- **Peta::XS** is a new module that lets pure Perl read facts about a
  value, such as its reference count, and attach magic: Perl callbacks
  that run when a variable is read, written or freed, as Variable::Magic
  offers on perl5. A program asks for its capabilities by name at `use`
  time, and one pperl does not provide is refused at compile time.