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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH "NAME" +perl586delta \- what is new for perl v5.8.6 +.SH "DESCRIPTION" +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +This document describes differences between the 5.8.5 release and +the 5.8.6 release. +.SH "Incompatible Changes" +.IX Header "Incompatible Changes" +There are no changes incompatible with 5.8.5. +.SH "Core Enhancements" +.IX Header "Core Enhancements" +The perl interpreter is now more tolerant of UTF\-16\-encoded scripts. +.PP +On Win32, Perl can now use non-IFS compatible LSPs, which allows Perl to +work in conjunction with firewalls such as McAfee Guardian. For full details +see the file \fI\s-1README\s0.win32\fR, particularly if you're running Win95. +.SH "Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Header "Modules and Pragmata" +.IP "\(bu" 4 +With the \f(CW\*(C`base\*(C'\fR pragma, an intermediate class with no fields used to messes +up private fields in the base class. This has been fixed. +.IP "\(bu" 4 +Cwd upgraded to version 3.01 (as part of the new PathTools distribution) +.IP "\(bu" 4 +Devel::PPPort upgraded to version 3.03 +.IP "\(bu" 4 +File::Spec upgraded to version 3.01 (as part of the new PathTools distribution) +.IP "\(bu" 4 +Encode upgraded to version 2.08 +.IP "\(bu" 4 +ExtUtils::MakeMaker remains at version 6.17, as later stable releases currently +available on \s-1CPAN\s0 have some issues with core modules on some core platforms. +.IP "\(bu" 4 +I18N::LangTags upgraded to version 0.35 +.IP "\(bu" 4 +Math::BigInt upgraded to version 1.73 +.IP "\(bu" 4 +Math::BigRat upgraded to version 0.13 +.IP "\(bu" 4 +MIME::Base64 upgraded to version 3.05 +.IP "\(bu" 4 +POSIX::sigprocmask function can now retrieve the current signal mask without +also setting it. +.IP "\(bu" 4 +Time::HiRes upgraded to version 1.65 +.SH "Utility Changes" +.IX Header "Utility Changes" +Perl has a new \-dt command-line flag, which enables threads support in the +debugger. +.SH "Performance Enhancements" +.IX Header "Performance Enhancements" +\&\f(CW\*(C`reverse sort ...\*(C'\fR is now optimized to sort in reverse, avoiding the +generation of a temporary intermediate list. +.PP +\&\f(CW\*(C`for (reverse @foo)\*(C'\fR now iterates in reverse, avoiding the generation of a +temporary reversed list. +.SH "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IX Header "Selected Bug Fixes" +The regexp engine is now more robust when given invalid utf8 input, as is +sometimes generated by buggy \s-1XS\s0 modules. +.PP +\&\f(CW\*(C`foreach\*(C'\fR on threads::shared array used to be able to crash Perl. This bug +has now been fixed. +.PP +A regexp in \f(CW\*(C`STDOUT\*(C'\fR's destructor used to coredump, because the regexp pad +was already freed. This has been fixed. +.PP +\&\f(CW\*(C`goto &\*(C'\fR is now more robust \- bugs in deep recursion and chained \f(CW\*(C`goto &\*(C'\fR +have been fixed. +.PP +Using \f(CW\*(C`delete\*(C'\fR on an array no longer leaks memory. A \f(CW\*(C`pop\*(C'\fR of an item from a +shared array reference no longer causes a leak. +.PP +\&\f(CW\*(C`eval_sv()\*(C'\fR failing a taint test could corrupt the stack \- this has been +fixed. +.PP +On platforms with 64 bit pointers numeric comparison operators used to +erroneously compare the addresses of references that are overloaded, rather +than using the overloaded values. This has been fixed. +.PP +\&\f(CW\*(C`read\*(C'\fR into a UTF8\-encoded buffer with an offset off the end of the buffer +no longer mis-calculates buffer lengths. +.PP +Although Perl has promised since version 5.8 that \f(CW\*(C`sort()\*(C'\fR would be +stable, the two cases \f(CW\*(C`sort {$b cmp $a}\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`sort {$b <=> $a}\*(C'\fR could +produce non-stable sorts. This is corrected in perl5.8.6. +.PP +Localising \f(CW$^D\fR no longer generates a diagnostic message about valid \-D +flags. +.SH "New or Changed Diagnostics" +.IX Header "New or Changed Diagnostics" +For \-t and \-T, + Too late for \*(L"\-T\*(R" option +has been changed to the more informative + \*(L"\-T\*(R" is on the #! line, it must also be used on the command line +.SH "Changed Internals" +.IX Header "Changed Internals" +From now on all applications embedding perl will behave as if perl +were compiled with \-DPERL_USE_SAFE_PUTENV. See \*(L"Environment access\*(R" in +the \fI\s-1INSTALL\s0\fR file for details. +.PP +Most \f(CW\*(C`C\*(C'\fR source files now have comments at the top explaining their purpose, +which should help anyone wishing to get an overview of the implementation. +.SH "New Tests" +.IX Header "New Tests" +There are significantly more tests for the \f(CW\*(C`B\*(C'\fR suite of modules. +.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://bugs.perl.org. 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 \fBperlbug\fR +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. You can browse and search +the Perl 5 bugs at http://bugs.perl.org/ +.SH "SEE ALSO" +.IX Header "SEE ALSO" +The \fIChanges\fR file for exhaustive details on what changed. +.PP +The \fI\s-1INSTALL\s0\fR file for how to build Perl. +.PP +The \fI\s-1README\s0\fR file for general stuff. +.PP +The \fIArtistic\fR and \fICopying\fR files for copyright information. |