Upgrade Perl from 5.18 to 5.20

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When I originally built my server (over a year ago) I installed perl 5.18 (exact version is 5.18.4).

I see that Perl 5.20 has been around since May last year. Is it worth upgrading to 5.20?

I have no issues with 5.18 but I always like to keep things current and was wondering if its worth going to 5.20.
 
Perl5.18 is now the default version for the p5-* ports since 2014-11-26.

In some time the default version will change. Watch /usr/ports/UPDATING
for notes like this:

/usr/ports/UPDATING said:
20141126:
AFFECTS: users of lang/perl5.*
AUTHOR: mat@FreeBSD.org

The directories where Perl modules are installed has changed. All
affected ports' PORTREVISION have been bumped, so upgrading should
be as painless as possible. The old directories have been kept in
the default Perl Inc to make it even more painless.

The default Perl has been switched to lang/perl5.18. These examples
are for switching from lang/perl5.16, if you are running a different
version, replace lang/perl5.16 with the origin of the Perl you have
installed.
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Unless you are learning or developing Perl there is no need for installing Perl5.20 now. In that case you might want to have both versions installed.
 
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