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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH NAME +perl5243delta \- what is new for perl v5.24.3 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +This document describes differences between the 5.24.2 release and the 5.24.3 +release. +.PP +If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.1, first read +perl5242delta, which describes differences between 5.24.1 and 5.24.2. +.SH Security +.IX Header "Security" +.SS "[CVE\-2017\-12837] Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler" +.IX Subsection "[CVE-2017-12837] Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler" +Compiling certain regular expression patterns with the case-insensitive +modifier could cause a heap buffer overflow and crash perl. This has now been +fixed. +[GH #16021] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16021> +.SS "[CVE\-2017\-12883] Buffer over-read in regular expression parser" +.IX Subsection "[CVE-2017-12883] Buffer over-read in regular expression parser" +For certain types of syntax error in a regular expression pattern, the error +message could either contain the contents of a random, possibly large, chunk of +memory, or could crash perl. This has now been fixed. +[GH #16025] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16025> +.ie n .SS "[CVE\-2017\-12814] $ENV{$key} stack buffer overflow on Windows" +.el .SS "[CVE\-2017\-12814] \f(CW$ENV{$key}\fP stack buffer overflow on Windows" +.IX Subsection "[CVE-2017-12814] $ENV{$key} stack buffer overflow on Windows" +A possible stack buffer overflow in the \f(CW%ENV\fR code on Windows has been fixed +by removing the buffer completely since it was superfluous anyway. +[GH #16051] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16051> +.SH "Incompatible Changes" +.IX Header "Incompatible Changes" +There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.24.2. If any exist, +they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See "Reporting +Bugs" below. +.SH "Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Header "Modules and Pragmata" +.SS "Updated Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Subsection "Updated Modules and Pragmata" +.IP \(bu 4 +Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20170715_24 to +5.20170922_24. +.IP \(bu 4 +POSIX has been upgraded from version 1.65 to 1.65_01. +.IP \(bu 4 +Time::HiRes has been upgraded from version 1.9733 to 1.9741. +.Sp +[GH #15396] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15396> +[GH #15401] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15401> +[GH #15524] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15524> +[cpan #120032] <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=120032> +.SH "Configuration and Compilation" +.IX Header "Configuration and Compilation" +.IP \(bu 4 +When building with GCC 6 and link-time optimization (the \fB\-flto\fR option to +\&\fBgcc\fR), \fIConfigure\fR was treating all probed symbols as present on the system, +regardless of whether they actually exist. This has been fixed. +[GH #15322] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15322> +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\fIConfigure\fR now aborts if both \f(CW\*(C`\-Duselongdouble\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`\-Dusequadmath\*(C'\fR are +requested. +[GH #14944] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14944> +.IP \(bu 4 +Fixed a bug in which \fIConfigure\fR could append \f(CW\*(C`\-quadmath\*(C'\fR to the archname +even if it was already present. +[GH #15423] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15423> +.IP \(bu 4 +Clang builds with \f(CW\*(C`\-DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`\-DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE\*(C'\fR +have been fixed (by disabling Thread Safety Analysis for these configurations). +.SH "Platform Support" +.IX Header "Platform Support" +.SS "Platform-Specific Notes" +.IX Subsection "Platform-Specific Notes" +.IP VMS 4 +.IX Item "VMS" +.RS 4 +.PD 0 +.IP \(bu 4 +.PD +\&\f(CW\*(C`configure.com\*(C'\fR now recognizes the VSI-branded C compiler. +.RE +.RS 4 +.RE +.IP Windows 4 +.IX Item "Windows" +.RS 4 +.PD 0 +.IP \(bu 4 +.PD +Building XS modules with GCC 6 in a 64\-bit build of Perl failed due to +incorrect mapping of \f(CW\*(C`strtoll\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`strtoull\*(C'\fR. This has now been fixed. +[GH #16074] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16074> +[cpan #121683] <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=121683> +[cpan #122353] <https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=122353> +.RE +.RS 4 +.RE +.SH "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IX Header "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`/@0{0*\->@*/*0\*(C'\fR and similar contortions used to crash, but no longer +do, but merely produce a syntax error. +[GH #15333] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15333> +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`do\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`require\*(C'\fR with an argument which is a reference or typeglob which, +when stringified, contains a null character, started crashing in Perl 5.20, but +has now been fixed. +[GH #15337] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15337> +.IP \(bu 4 +Expressions containing an \f(CW\*(C`&&\*(C'\fR or \f(CW\*(C`||\*(C'\fR operator (or their synonyms \f(CW\*(C`and\*(C'\fR and +\&\f(CW\*(C`or\*(C'\fR) were being compiled incorrectly in some cases. If the left-hand side +consisted of either a negated bareword constant or a negated \f(CW\*(C`do {}\*(C'\fR block +containing a constant expression, and the right-hand side consisted of a +negated non-foldable expression, one of the negations was effectively ignored. +The same was true of \f(CW\*(C`if\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`unless\*(C'\fR statement modifiers, though with the +left-hand and right-hand sides swapped. This long-standing bug has now been +fixed. +[GH #15285] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15285> +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`reset\*(C'\fR with an argument no longer crashes when encountering stash entries +other than globs. +[GH #15314] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15314> +.IP \(bu 4 +Assignment of hashes to, and deletion of, typeglobs named \f(CW*::::::\fR no longer +causes crashes. +[GH #15307] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15307> +.IP \(bu 4 +Assignment variants of any bitwise ops under the \f(CW\*(C`bitwise\*(C'\fR feature would crash +if the left-hand side was an array or hash. +[GH #15346] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15346> +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`socket\*(C'\fR now leaves the error code returned by the system in \f(CW$!\fR on failure. +[GH #15383] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15383> +.IP \(bu 4 +Parsing bad POSIX charclasses no longer leaks memory. +[GH #15382] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15382> +.IP \(bu 4 +Since Perl 5.20, line numbers have been off by one when perl is invoked with +the \fB\-x\fR switch. This has been fixed. +[GH #15413] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15413> +.IP \(bu 4 +Some obscure cases of subroutines and file handles being freed at the same time +could result in crashes, but have been fixed. The crash was introduced in Perl +5.22. +[GH #15435] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15435> +.IP \(bu 4 +Some regular expression parsing glitches could lead to assertion failures with +regular expressions such as \f(CW\*(C`/(?<=/\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`/(?<!/\*(C'\fR. This has now been +fixed. +[GH #15332] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15332> +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`gethostent\*(C'\fR and similar functions now perform a null check internally, to +avoid crashing with the torsocks library. This was a regression from Perl +5.22. +[GH #15478] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15478> +.IP \(bu 4 +Mentioning the same constant twice in a row (which is a syntax error) no longer +fails an assertion under debugging builds. This was a regression from Perl +5.20. +[GH #15017] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15017> +.IP \(bu 4 +In Perl 5.24 \f(CW\*(C`fchown\*(C'\fR was changed not to accept negative one as an argument +because in some platforms that is an error. However, in some other platforms +that is an acceptable argument. This change has been reverted. +[GH #15523] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15523>. +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`@{x\*(C'\fR followed by a newline where \f(CW"x"\fR represents a control or non-ASCII +character no longer produces a garbled syntax error message or a crash. +[GH #15518] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15518> +.IP \(bu 4 +A regression in Perl 5.24 with \f(CW\*(C`tr/\eN{U+...}/foo/\*(C'\fR when the code point was +between 128 and 255 has been fixed. +[GH #15475] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15475>. +.IP \(bu 4 +Many issues relating to \f(CW\*(C`printf "%a"\*(C'\fR of hexadecimal floating point were +fixed. In addition, the "subnormals" (formerly known as "denormals") floating +point numbers are now supported both with the plain IEEE 754 floating point +numbers (64\-bit or 128\-bit) and the x86 80\-bit "extended precision". Note that +subnormal hexadecimal floating point literals will give a warning about +"exponent underflow". +[GH #15495] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15495> +[GH #15502] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15502> +[GH #15503] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15503> +[GH #15504] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15504> +[GH #15505] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15505> +[GH #15510] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15510> +[GH #15512] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15512> +.IP \(bu 4 +The parser could sometimes crash if a bareword came after \f(CW\*(C`evalbytes\*(C'\fR. +[GH #15586] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15586> +.IP \(bu 4 +Fixed a place where the regex parser was not setting the syntax error correctly +on a syntactically incorrect pattern. +[GH #15565] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15565> +.IP \(bu 4 +A vulnerability in Perl's \f(CW\*(C`sprintf\*(C'\fR implementation has been fixed by avoiding +a possible memory wrap. +[GH #15970] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15970> +.SH Acknowledgements +.IX Header "Acknowledgements" +Perl 5.24.3 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl 5.24.2 +and contains approximately 3,200 lines of changes across 120 files from 23 +authors. +.PP +Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were +approximately 1,600 lines of changes to 56 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. +.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 5.24.3: +.PP +Aaron Crane, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan Collins, Daniel +Dragan, Dave Cross, David Mitchell, Eric Herman, Father Chrysostomos, H.Merijn +Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, John SJ +Anderson, Karl Williamson, Ken Brown, Lukas Mai, Matthew Horsfall, Stevan +Little, Steve Hay, Steven Humphrey, Tony Cook, 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 +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. +.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 +<https://rt.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 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 see +"SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to +report the issue. +.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. |