It's a shame that they did not upgrade Perl Pocket Reference to Perl 5.12 (or even 5.14, due out later this year) when they made the ebook version. However, reference 5.8 is still very relevant. It just skips some awesome new things like given/ when, the smart-match operator, ~~and some regex modifiers that are new.
For all that has changed between the different versions of Perl, I must direct you to the perldelta documents. To see what has changed between 5.8 and 5.10, see perl5100delta and perl5101delta for the difference between 5.10.0 and 5.10.1. For Perl 5.12, see perl51200delta and subsequent perl51xxdelta documents.
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