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         The Perl client provides strongly typed requests and responses for all Elasticsearch APIs.
+        <br>
+        <b>The end-of-life for version 8 of the elastic/elaticsearch-perl software has been announced. 
+        The announcement marks the final milestone of the lifecycle management phase of the 8.x 
+        release family. 8.x is the last major version supported by Elastic.</b>
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         <a href="https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/perl-api/current/_features.html">