- A POSIX-compliant shell is required to run some scripts needed
for everyday use (e.g. "bisect", "request-pull").
- - "Perl" version 5.8 or later is needed to use some of the
+ - "Perl" version 5.8.1 or later is needed to use some of the
features (e.g. sending patches using "git send-email",
interacting with svn repositories with "git svn"). If you can
live without these, use NO_PERL. Note that recent releases of