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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH NAME +perl5144delta \- what is new for perl v5.14.4 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +This document describes differences between the 5.14.3 release and +the 5.14.4 release. +.PP +If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.0, first read +perl5140delta, which describes differences between 5.12.0 and +5.14.0. +.SH "Core Enhancements" +.IX Header "Core Enhancements" +No changes since 5.14.0. +.SH Security +.IX Header "Security" +This release contains one major, and medium, and a number of minor +security fixes. The latter are included mainly to allow the test suite to +pass cleanly with the clang compiler's address sanitizer facility. +.SS "CVE\-2013\-1667: memory exhaustion with arbitrary hash keys" +.IX Subsection "CVE-2013-1667: memory exhaustion with arbitrary hash keys" +With a carefully crafted set of hash keys (for example arguments on a +URL), it is possible to cause a hash to consume a large amount of memory +and CPU, and thus possibly to achieve a Denial-of-Service. +.PP +This problem has been fixed. +.SS "memory leak in Encode" +.IX Subsection "memory leak in Encode" +The UTF\-8 encoding implementation in Encode.xs had a memory leak which has been +fixed. +.SS "[perl #111594] Socket::unpack_sockaddr_un heap-buffer-overflow" +.IX Subsection "[perl #111594] Socket::unpack_sockaddr_un heap-buffer-overflow" +A read buffer overflow could occur when copying \f(CW\*(C`sockaddr\*(C'\fR buffers. +Fairly harmless. +.PP +This problem has been fixed. +.SS "[perl #111586] SDBM_File: fix off-by-one access to global "".dir""" +.IX Subsection "[perl #111586] SDBM_File: fix off-by-one access to global "".dir""" +An extra byte was being copied for some string literals. Fairly harmless. +.PP +This problem has been fixed. +.SS "off-by-two error in List::Util" +.IX Subsection "off-by-two error in List::Util" +A string literal was being used that included two bytes beyond the +end of the string. Fairly harmless. +.PP +This problem has been fixed. +.SS "[perl #115994] fix segv in regcomp.\fBc:S_join_exact()\fP" +.IX Subsection "[perl #115994] fix segv in regcomp.c:S_join_exact()" +Under debugging builds, while marking optimised-out regex nodes as type +\&\f(CW\*(C`OPTIMIZED\*(C'\fR, it could treat blocks of exact text as if they were nodes, +and thus SEGV. Fairly harmless. +.PP +This problem has been fixed. +.SS "[perl #115992] PL_eval_start use-after-free" +.IX Subsection "[perl #115992] PL_eval_start use-after-free" +The statement \f(CW\*(C`local $[;\*(C'\fR, when preceded by an \f(CW\*(C`eval\*(C'\fR, and when not part +of an assignment, could crash. Fairly harmless. +.PP +This problem has been fixed. +.SS "wrap-around with IO on long strings" +.IX Subsection "wrap-around with IO on long strings" +Reading or writing strings greater than 2**31 bytes in size could segfault +due to integer wraparound. +.PP +This problem has been fixed. +.SH "Incompatible Changes" +.IX Header "Incompatible Changes" +There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.14.0. If any +exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. +.SH Deprecations +.IX Header "Deprecations" +There have been no deprecations since 5.14.0. +.SH "Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Header "Modules and Pragmata" +.SS "New Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Subsection "New Modules and Pragmata" +None +.SS "Updated Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Subsection "Updated Modules and Pragmata" +The following modules have just the minor code fixes as listed above in +"Security" (version numbers have not changed): +.IP Socket 4 +.IX Item "Socket" +.PD 0 +.IP SDBM_File 4 +.IX Item "SDBM_File" +.IP List::Util 4 +.IX Item "List::Util" +.PD +.PP +Encode has been upgraded from version 2.42_01 to version 2.42_02. +.PP +Module::CoreList has been updated to version 2.49_06 to add data for +this release. +.SS "Removed Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Subsection "Removed Modules and Pragmata" +None. +.SH Documentation +.IX Header "Documentation" +.SS "New Documentation" +.IX Subsection "New Documentation" +None. +.SS "Changes to Existing Documentation" +.IX Subsection "Changes to Existing Documentation" +None. +.SH Diagnostics +.IX Header "Diagnostics" +No new or changed diagnostics. +.SH "Utility Changes" +.IX Header "Utility Changes" +None +.SH "Configuration and Compilation" +.IX Header "Configuration and Compilation" +No changes. +.SH "Platform Support" +.IX Header "Platform Support" +.SS "New Platforms" +.IX Subsection "New Platforms" +None. +.SS "Discontinued Platforms" +.IX Subsection "Discontinued Platforms" +None. +.SS "Platform-Specific Notes" +.IX Subsection "Platform-Specific Notes" +.IP VMS 4 +.IX Item "VMS" +5.14.3 failed to compile on VMS due to incomplete application of a patch +series that allowed \f(CW\*(C`userelocatableinc\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`usesitecustomize\*(C'\fR to be +used simultaneously. Other platforms were not affected and the problem +has now been corrected. +.SH "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IX Header "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IP \(bu 4 +In Perl 5.14.0, \f(CW\*(C`$tainted ~~ @array\*(C'\fR stopped working properly. Sometimes +it would erroneously fail (when \f(CW$tainted\fR contained a string that occurs +in the array \fIafter\fR the first element) or erroneously succeed (when +\&\f(CW\*(C`undef\*(C'\fR occurred after the first element) [perl #93590]. +.SH "Known Problems" +.IX Header "Known Problems" +None. +.SH Acknowledgements +.IX Header "Acknowledgements" +Perl 5.14.4 represents approximately 5 months of development since Perl 5.14.3 +and contains approximately 1,700 lines of changes across 49 files from 12 +authors. +.PP +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 5.14.4: +.PP +Andy Dougherty, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Christian Hansen, Craig A. Berry, +Dave Rolsky, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Father Chrysostomos, +Florian Ragwitz, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Yves Orton. +.PP +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. +.PP +For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see +the \fIAUTHORS\fR file in the Perl source distribution. +.SH "Reporting Bugs" +.IX Header "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. +.PP +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 \f(CW\*(C`perl \-V\*(C'\fR, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be +analysed by the Perl porting team. +.PP +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 perl5\-security\-report@perl.org. 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. +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +The \fIChanges\fR file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details +on what changed. +.PP +The \fIINSTALL\fR file for how to build Perl. +.PP +The \fIREADME\fR file for general stuff. +.PP +The \fIArtistic\fR and \fICopying\fR files for copyright information. |