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Scripts which happen to rely on previously +erroneous behaviour will consider these fixes as incompatible changes :\-) +You are advised to perform sufficient acceptance testing on this release +to satisfy yourself that this does not affect you, before putting this +release into production. +.PP +The diagnostic output of Carp has been changed slightly, to add a space after +the comma between arguments. This makes it much easier for tools such as +web browsers to wrap it, but might confuse any automatic tools which perform +detailed parsing of Carp output. +.PP +The internal dump output has been improved, so that non-printable characters +such as newline and backspace are output in \f(CW\*(C`\ex\*(C'\fR notation, rather than +octal. This might just confuse non-robust tools which parse the output of +modules such as Devel::Peek. +.SH "Core Enhancements" +.IX Header "Core Enhancements" +.SS "Malloc wrapping" +.IX Subsection "Malloc wrapping" +Perl can now be built to detect attempts to assign pathologically large chunks +of memory. Previously such assignments would suffer from integer wrap-around +during size calculations causing a misallocation, which would crash perl, and +could theoretically be used for "stack smashing" attacks. The wrapping +defaults to enabled on platforms where we know it works (most AIX +configurations, BSDi, Darwin, DEC OSF/1, FreeBSD, HP/UX, GNU Linux, OpenBSD, +Solaris, VMS and most Win32 compilers) and defaults to disabled on other +platforms. +.SS "Unicode Character Database 4.0.1" +.IX Subsection "Unicode Character Database 4.0.1" +The copy of the Unicode Character Database included in Perl 5.8 has +been updated to 4.0.1 from 4.0.0. +.SS "suidperl less insecure" +.IX Subsection "suidperl less insecure" +Paul Szabo has analysed and patched \f(CW\*(C`suidperl\*(C'\fR to remove existing known +insecurities. Currently there are no known holes in \f(CW\*(C`suidperl\*(C'\fR, but previous +experience shows that we cannot be confident that these were the last. You may +no longer invoke the set uid perl directly, so to preserve backwards +compatibility with scripts that invoke #!/usr/bin/suidperl the only set uid +binary is now \f(CW\*(C`sperl5.8.\*(C'\fR\fIn\fR (\f(CW\*(C`sperl5.8.4\*(C'\fR for this release). \f(CW\*(C`suidperl\*(C'\fR +is installed as a hard link to \f(CW\*(C`perl\*(C'\fR; both \f(CW\*(C`suidperl\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`perl\*(C'\fR will +invoke \f(CW\*(C`sperl5.8.4\*(C'\fR automatically the set uid binary, so this change should +be completely transparent. +.PP +For new projects the core perl team would strongly recommend that you use +dedicated, single purpose security tools such as \f(CW\*(C`sudo\*(C'\fR in preference to +\&\f(CW\*(C`suidperl\*(C'\fR. +.SS format +.IX Subsection "format" +In addition to bug fixes, \f(CW\*(C`format\*(C'\fR's features have been enhanced. See +perlform +.SH "Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Header "Modules and Pragmata" +The (mis)use of \f(CW\*(C`/tmp\*(C'\fR in core modules and documentation has been tidied up. +Some modules available both within the perl core and independently from CPAN +("dual-life modules") have not yet had these changes applied; the changes +will be integrated into future stable perl releases as the modules are +updated on CPAN. +.SS "Updated modules" +.IX Subsection "Updated modules" +.IP Attribute::Handlers 4 +.IX Item "Attribute::Handlers" +.PD 0 +.IP B 4 +.IX Item "B" +.IP Benchmark 4 +.IX Item "Benchmark" +.IP CGI 4 +.IX Item "CGI" +.IP Carp 4 +.IX Item "Carp" +.IP Cwd 4 +.IX Item "Cwd" +.IP Exporter 4 +.IX Item "Exporter" +.IP File::Find 4 +.IX Item "File::Find" +.IP IO 4 +.IX Item "IO" +.IP IPC::Open3 4 +.IX Item "IPC::Open3" +.IP Local::Maketext 4 +.IX Item "Local::Maketext" +.IP Math::BigFloat 4 +.IX Item "Math::BigFloat" +.IP Math::BigInt 4 +.IX Item "Math::BigInt" +.IP Math::BigRat 4 +.IX Item "Math::BigRat" +.IP MIME::Base64 4 +.IX Item "MIME::Base64" +.IP ODBM_File 4 +.IX Item "ODBM_File" +.IP POSIX 4 +.IX Item "POSIX" +.IP Shell 4 +.IX Item "Shell" +.IP Socket 4 +.IX Item "Socket" +.PD +There is experimental support for Linux abstract Unix domain sockets. +.IP Storable 4 +.IX Item "Storable" +.PD 0 +.IP Switch 4 +.IX Item "Switch" +.PD +Synced with its CPAN version 2.10 +.IP Sys::Syslog 4 +.IX Item "Sys::Syslog" +\&\f(CWsyslog()\fR can now use numeric constants for facility names and priorities, +in addition to strings. +.IP Term::ANSIColor 4 +.IX Item "Term::ANSIColor" +.PD 0 +.IP Time::HiRes 4 +.IX Item "Time::HiRes" +.IP Unicode::UCD 4 +.IX Item "Unicode::UCD" +.IP Win32 4 +.IX Item "Win32" +.PD +Win32.pm/Win32.xs has moved from the libwin32 module to core Perl +.IP base 4 +.IX Item "base" +.PD 0 +.IP open 4 +.IX Item "open" +.IP threads 4 +.IX Item "threads" +.PD +Detached threads are now also supported on Windows. +.IP utf8 4 +.IX Item "utf8" +.SH "Performance Enhancements" +.IX Header "Performance Enhancements" +.PD 0 +.IP \(bu 4 +.PD +Accelerated Unicode case mappings (\f(CW\*(C`/i\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`lc\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`uc\*(C'\fR, etc). +.IP \(bu 4 +In place sort optimised (eg \f(CW\*(C`@a = sort @a\*(C'\fR) +.IP \(bu 4 +Unnecessary assignment optimised away in +.Sp +.Vb 3 +\& my $s = undef; +\& my @a = (); +\& my %h = (); +.Ve +.IP \(bu 4 +Optimised \f(CW\*(C`map\*(C'\fR in scalar context +.SH "Utility Changes" +.IX Header "Utility Changes" +The Perl debugger (\fIlib/perl5db.pl\fR) can now save all debugger commands for +sourcing later, and can display the parent inheritance tree of a given class. +.SH "Installation and Configuration Improvements" +.IX Header "Installation and Configuration Improvements" +The build process on both VMS and Windows has had several minor improvements +made. On Windows Borland's C compiler can now compile perl with PerlIO and/or +USE_LARGE_FILES enabled. +.PP +\&\f(CW\*(C`perl.exe\*(C'\fR on Windows now has a "Camel" logo icon. The use of a camel with +the topic of Perl is a trademark of O'Reilly and Associates Inc., and is used +with their permission (ie distribution of the source, compiling a Windows +executable from it, and using that executable locally). Use of the supplied +camel for anything other than a perl executable's icon is specifically not +covered, and anyone wishing to redistribute perl binaries \fIwith\fR the icon +should check directly with O'Reilly beforehand. +.PP +Perl should build cleanly on Stratus VOS once more. +.SH "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IX Header "Selected Bug Fixes" +More utf8 bugs fixed, notably in how \f(CW\*(C`chomp\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`chop\*(C'\fR, \f(CW\*(C`send\*(C'\fR, and +\&\f(CW\*(C`syswrite\*(C'\fR and interact with utf8 data. Concatenation now works correctly +when \f(CW\*(C`use bytes;\*(C'\fR is in scope. +.PP +Pragmata are now correctly propagated into (?{...}) constructions in regexps. +Code such as +.PP +.Vb 1 +\& my $x = qr{ ... (??{ $x }) ... }; +.Ve +.PP +will now (correctly) fail under use strict. (As the inner \f(CW$x\fR is and +has always referred to \f(CW$::x\fR) +.PP +The "const in void context" warning has been suppressed for a constant in an +optimised-away boolean expression such as \f(CW\*(C`5 || print;\*(C'\fR +.PP +\&\f(CW\*(C`perl \-i\*(C'\fR could \f(CWfchmod(stdin)\fR by mistake. This is serious if stdin is +attached to a terminal, and perl is running as root. Now fixed. +.SH "New or Changed Diagnostics" +.IX Header "New or Changed Diagnostics" +\&\f(CW\*(C`Carp\*(C'\fR and the internal diagnostic routines used by \f(CW\*(C`Devel::Peek\*(C'\fR have been +made clearer, as described in "Incompatible Changes" +.SH "Changed Internals" +.IX Header "Changed Internals" +Some bugs have been fixed in the hash internals. Restricted hashes and +their place holders are now allocated and deleted at slightly different times, +but this should not be visible to user code. +.SH "Future Directions" +.IX Header "Future Directions" +Code freeze for the next maintenance release (5.8.5) will be on 30th June +2004, with release by mid July. +.SH "Platform Specific Problems" +.IX Header "Platform Specific Problems" +This release is known not to build on Windows 95. +.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 \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. |