Finalize perldelta

1 files changed, 26 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index cfd82df0c5..855d0f4a8a 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -61,9 +61,33 @@ L<[perl #129038]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=129038>
 
 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
-XXX Generate this with:
+Perl 5.24.2 represents approximately 6 months of development since Perl 5.24.1
+and contains approximately 2,500 lines of changes across 53 files from 18
+authors.
 
-  perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.24.1..HEAD
+Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
+approximately 960 lines of changes to 17 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
+
+Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
+of users and developers.  The following people are known to have contributed
+the improvements that became Perl 5.24.2:
+
+Aaron Crane, Abigail, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan
+Collins, David Mitchell, Eric Herman, Father Chrysostomos, James E Keenan, Karl
+Williamson, Lukas Mai, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Sawyer X, Stevan Little,
+Steve Hay, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.
+
+The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
+from version control history.  In particular, it does not include the names of
+the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
+tracker.
+
+Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
+included in Perl's core.  We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
+helping Perl to flourish.
+
+For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
+the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
 
 =head1 Reporting Bugs