perldelta: Add Acknowledgements for 5.42.0

Author: thibaultduponchelle

pod/perldelta.pod

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 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
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+Perl 5.42.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl
+5.40.0 and contains approximately 280,000 lines of changes across 1,500
+files from 65 authors.
+
+Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
+approximately 94,000 lines of changes to 860 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
+
+Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
+community of users and developers. The following people are known to have
+contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.42.0:
+
+Aaron Dill, Andrei Horodniceanu, Andrew Ruthven, Antanas Vaitkus, Aristotle
+Pagaltzis, Branislav Zahradník, brian d foy, Chad Granum, Chris 'BinGOs'
+Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dabrien 'Dabe' Murphy, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker,
+Dan Book, Daniel Dragan, Dan Jacobson, David Cantrell, David Mitchell, E.
+Choroba, Ed J, Ed Sabol, Elvin Aslanov, Eric Herman, Erik Huelsmann, Gianni
+Ceccarelli, Graham Knop, hbmaclean, H.Merijn Brand, iabyn, James E Keenan,
+James Raspass, Johan Vromans, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon
+Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Marek Rouchal, Marin Tsanov, Mark Fowler, Masahiro
+Honma, Max Maischein, Paul Evans, Paul Johnson, Paul Marquess, Peter
+Eisentraut, Peter John Acklam, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), pyrrhlin, Reini
+Urban, Richard Leach, Robert Rothenberg, Robin Ragged, Russ Allbery, Scott
+Baker, Sergei Zhmylev, Sevan Janiyan, Sisyphus, Štěpán Němec, Steve Hay,
+TAKAI Kousuke, Thibault Duponchelle, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Unicode
+Consortium, Vladimír Marek, 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.
 
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