perl5123delta
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perl5123delta - what is new for perl v5.12.3
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Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5123DELTA(1)
NAME
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.12.3
DESCRIPTION
This document describes differences between the 5.12.2
release and the 5.12.3 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.1,
first read perl5122delta, which describes differences
between 5.12.1 and 5.12.2. The major changes made in 5.12.0
are described in perl5120delta.
Incompatible Changes
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.2. If any
exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.
Core Enhancements
"keys", "values" work on arrays
You can now use the "keys", "values", "each" builtin
functions on arrays (previously you could only use them on
hashes). See perlfunc for details. This is actually a
change introduced in perl 5.12.0, but it was missed from
that release's perldelta.
Bug Fixes
"no VERSION" will now correctly deparse with B::Deparse, as
will certain constant expressions.
Module::Build should be more reliably pass its tests under
cygwin.
lvalue sub return values are now COW.
Platform Specific Notes
Solaris
A separate DTrace is now build for miniperl, which means
that perl can be compiled with -Dusedtrace on Solaris
again.
VMS A number of regressions on VMS have been fixed. In
addition to minor cleanup of questionable expressions in
vms.c, file permissions should no longer be garbled by
the PerlIO layer, and spurious record boundaries should
no longer be introduced by the PerlIO layer during
output.
For more details and discussion on the latter, see:
http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.vmsperl/2010/11/msg15419.html
VOS A few very small changes were made to the build process
on VOS to better support the platform.
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Longer-than-32-character filenames are now supported on
OpenVOS, and build properly without IPv6 support.
Acknowledgements
Perl 5.12.3 represents approximately four months of
development since Perl 5.12.2 and contains approximately
2500 lines of changes across 54 files from 16 authors.
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 5.12.3:
Craig A. Berry, David Golden, David Leadbeater, Father
Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Jesse Vincent, Karl
Williamson, Nick Johnston, Nicolas Kaiser, Paul Green,
Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Rainer Tammer, Ricardo Signes, Steffen
Mueller, Zsban Ambrus, var Arnfjoer` Bjarmason
Reporting Bugs
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the
articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc
newsgroup and the perl bug database at
http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be information
at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the
perlbug program included with your release. Be sure to trim
your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug
report, along with the output of "perl -V", will be sent off
to [email protected] to be analysed by the Perl porting team.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications,
which make it inappropriate to send to a publicly archived
mailing list, then please send it to
[email protected]. This points to a closed
subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the
core committers, who be able to help assess the impact of
issues, figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the
release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all
platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this
address for security issues in the Perl core, not for
modules independently distributed on CPAN.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
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+---------------+------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+------------------+
|Availability | runtime/perl-512 |
+---------------+------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
The Changes file for an explanation of how to view
exhaustive details on what changed.
The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
The README file for general stuff.
The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.perl.org/.
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