extproc_perl allows Oracle stored procedures to be written in Perl. A Perl interpreter is embedded in an Oracle external procedure, and remains persistent for the life of a client session.
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Oracle dates are now supported as parameters and return values. A new class was created to support manipulation of dates. Several bugs related to NULL values in IN OUT and OUT parameters were fixed.