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 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
-XXX Generate this with:
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-  perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.21.4..HEAD
+Perl 5.21.5 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.21.4
+and contains approximately 40,000 lines of changes across 530 files from 33
+authors.
+
+Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
+approximately 29,000 lines of changes to 390 .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 5.21.5:
+
+Aaron Crane, Abigail, Alberto Simões, Andrew Fresh, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams,
+Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Daniel Dragan, David Mitchell, Doug
+Bell, Ed J, Father Chrysostomos, George Greer, Graham Knop, James E Keenan,
+Jarkko Hietaniemi, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas
+Mai, Niko Tyni, Peter Martini, Petr Písař, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban,
+Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish, Steve Hay, syber, Tony Cook, Vincent Pit, Yves
+Orton, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
+
+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.
 
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