The Perl project has announced the
upcoming release of Perl 7. Unlike Perl 6, though, this is not a
radical departure, yet at least: “Perl 7.0 is going to be v5.32 but
with different, saner, more modern defaults. You won’t have to enable most
of the things you are already doing because they are enabled for you. The
major version jump sets the boundary between how we have been doing things
and what we can do in the future.”
The plan is to have a Perl 7 release “within the next
year“.

Source: LWN.net – Perl 7 launches