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 This chapter describes SWIG's support of Perl5. Although the Perl5
 module is one of the earliest SWIG modules, it has continued to evolve
 and has been improved greatly with the help of SWIG users. For the
-best results, it is recommended that SWIG be used with Perl5.003 or
-later. Earlier versions are problematic and SWIG generated extensions
-may not compile or run correctly.
+best results, it is recommended that SWIG be used with Perl 5.8 or
+later. We're no longer testing regularly with older versions, but
+Perl 5.6 seems to mostly work, while older versions don't.
 </p>
 
 <H2><a name="Perl5_nn2"></a>30.1 Overview</H2>