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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH NAME +perl5121delta \- what is new for perl v5.12.1 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +This document describes differences between the 5.12.0 release and +the 5.12.1 release. +.PP +If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.10.1, first read +perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10.0 and +5.12.0. +.SH "Incompatible Changes" +.IX Header "Incompatible Changes" +There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.0. If any +incompatibilities with 5.12.0 exist, they are bugs. Please report them. +.SH "Core Enhancements" +.IX Header "Core Enhancements" +Other than the bug fixes listed below, there should be no user-visible +changes to the core language in this release. +.SH "Modules and Pragmata" +.IX Header "Modules and Pragmata" +.SS "Pragmata Changes" +.IX Subsection "Pragmata Changes" +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed exporting of \f(CW\*(C`is_strict\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`is_lax\*(C'\fR from version. +.Sp +These were being exported with a wrapper that treated them as method +calls, which caused them to fail. They are just functions, are +documented as such, and should never be subclassed, so this patch +just exports them directly as functions without the wrapper. +.SS "Updated Modules" +.IX Subsection "Updated Modules" +.IP \(bu 4 +We upgraded CGI to version 3.49 to incorporate fixes for regressions +introduced in the release we shipped with Perl 5.12.0. +.IP \(bu 4 +We upgraded Pod::Simple to version 3.14 to get an improvement to \eC\e<\e< \e>\e> +parsing. +.IP \(bu 4 +We made a small fix to the CPANPLUS test suite to fix an occasional spurious test failure. +.IP \(bu 4 +We upgraded Safe to version 2.27 to wrap coderefs returned by \f(CWreval()\fR and \f(CWrdo()\fR. +.SH "Changes to Existing Documentation" +.IX Header "Changes to Existing Documentation" +.IP \(bu 4 +We added the new maintenance release policy to perlpolicy +.IP \(bu 4 +We've clarified the multiple-angle-bracket construct in the spec for POD +in perlpodspec +.IP \(bu 4 +We added a missing explanation for a warning about \f(CW\*(C`:=\*(C'\fR to perldiag +.IP \(bu 4 +We removed a false claim in perlunitut that all text strings are Unicode strings in Perl. +.IP \(bu 4 +We updated the GitHub mirror link in perlrepository to mirrors/perl, not github/perl +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed a minor error in perl5114delta. +.IP \(bu 4 +We replaced a mention of the now-obsolete Switch with \fIgiven\fR/\fIwhen\fR. +.IP \(bu 4 +We improved documentation about \fR\f(CI$sitelibexp\fR\fI/sitecustomize.pl\fR in perlrun. +.IP \(bu 4 +We corrected perlmodlib which had unintentionally omitted a number of modules. +.IP \(bu 4 +We updated the documentation for 'require' in perlfunc relating to putting Perl code in \f(CW@INC\fR. +.IP \(bu 4 +We reinstated some erroneously-removed documentation about quotemeta in perlfunc. +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed an \fIa2p\fR example in perlutil. +.IP \(bu 4 +We filled in a blank in perlport with the release date of Perl 5.12. +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed broken links in a number of perldelta files. +.IP \(bu 4 +The documentation for Carp incorrectly stated that the \f(CW$Carp::Verbose\fR +variable makes cluck generate stack backtraces. +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed a number of typos in Pod::Functions +.IP \(bu 4 +We improved documentation of case-changing functions in perlfunc +.IP \(bu 4 +We corrected perlgpl to contain the correct version of the GNU +General Public License. +.SH Testing +.IX Header "Testing" +.SS "Testing Improvements" +.IX Subsection "Testing Improvements" +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\fIt/op/sselect.t\fR is now less prone to clock jitter during timing checks +on Windows. +.Sp +\&\fBsleep()\fR time on Win32 may be rounded down to multiple of +the clock tick interval. +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\fIlib/blib.t\fR and \fIlib/locale.t\fR: Fixes for test failures on Darwin/PPC +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\fIperl5db.t\fR: Fix for test failures when \f(CW\*(C`Term::ReadLine::Gnu\*(C'\fR is installed. +.SH "Installation and Configuration Improvements" +.IX Header "Installation and Configuration Improvements" +.SS "Configuration improvements" +.IX Subsection "Configuration improvements" +.IP \(bu 4 +We updated \fIINSTALL\fR with notes about how to deal with broken \fIdbm.h\fR +on OpenSUSE (and possibly other platforms) +.SH "Bug Fixes" +.IX Header "Bug Fixes" +.IP \(bu 4 +A bug in how we process filetest operations could cause a segfault. +Filetests don't always expect an op on the stack, so we now use +TOPs only if we're sure that we're not stat'ing the _ filehandle. +This is indicated by OPf_KIDS (as checked in ck_ftst). +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10335> +.IP \(bu 4 +When deparsing a nextstate op that has both a change of package (relative +to the previous nextstate) and a label, the package declaration is now +emitted first, because it is syntactically impermissible for a label to +prefix a package declaration. +.IP \(bu 4 +XSUB.h now correctly redefines fgets under PERL_IMPLICIT_SYS +.Sp +See also: <http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=55049> +.IP \(bu 4 +utf8::is_utf8 now respects GMAGIC (e.g. \f(CW$1\fR) +.IP \(bu 4 +XS code using \f(CWfputc()\fR or \f(CWfputs()\fR: on Windows could cause an error +due to their arguments being swapped. +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10156> +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed a small bug in \fBlex_stuff_pvn()\fR that caused spurious syntax errors +in an obscure situation. It happened when stuffing was performed on the +last line of a file and the line ended with a statement that lacked a +terminating semicolon. +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10273> +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed a bug that could cause \eN{} constructs followed by a single . to +be parsed incorrectly. +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10367> +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed a bug that caused when(scalar) without an argument not to be +treated as a syntax error. +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10287> +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed a regression in the handling of labels immediately before string +evals that was introduced in Perl 5.12.0. +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10301> +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed a regression in case-insensitive matching of folded characters +in regular expressions introduced in Perl 5.10.1. +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/10193> +.SH "Platform Specific Notes" +.IX Header "Platform Specific Notes" +.SS HP-UX +.IX Subsection "HP-UX" +.IP \(bu 4 +Perl now allows \-Duse64bitint without promoting to use64bitall on HP-UX +.SS AIX +.IX Subsection "AIX" +.IP \(bu 4 +Perl now builds on AIX 4.2 +.Sp +The changes required work around AIX 4.2s' lack of support for IPv6, +and limited support for POSIX \f(CWsigaction()\fR. +.SS "FreeBSD 7" +.IX Subsection "FreeBSD 7" +.IP \(bu 4 +FreeBSD 7 no longer contains \fI/usr/bin/objformat\fR. At build time, +Perl now skips the \fIobjformat\fR check for versions 7 and higher and +assumes ELF. +.SS VMS +.IX Subsection "VMS" +.IP \(bu 4 +It's now possible to build extensions on older (pre 7.3\-2) VMS systems. +.Sp +DCL symbol length was limited to 1K up until about seven years or +so ago, but there was no particularly deep reason to prevent those +older systems from configuring and building Perl. +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed the previously-broken \f(CW\*(C`\-Uuseperlio\*(C'\fR build on VMS. +.Sp +We were checking a variable that doesn't exist in the non-default +case of disabling perlio. Now we only look at it when it exists. +.IP \(bu 4 +We fixed the \-Uuseperlio command-line option in configure.com. +.Sp +Formerly it only worked if you went through all the questions +interactively and explicitly answered no. +.SH "Known Problems" +.IX Header "Known Problems" +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`List::Util::first\*(C'\fR misbehaves in the presence of a lexical \f(CW$_\fR +(typically introduced by \f(CW\*(C`my $_\*(C'\fR or implicitly by \f(CW\*(C`given\*(C'\fR). The variable +which gets set for each iteration is the package variable \f(CW$_\fR, not the +lexical \f(CW$_\fR. +.Sp +A similar issue may occur in other modules that provide functions which +take a block as their first argument, like +.Sp +.Vb 1 +\& foo { ... $_ ...} list +.Ve +.Sp +See also: <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/9798> +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW\*(C`Module::Load::Conditional\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`version\*(C'\fR have an unfortunate +interaction which can cause \f(CW\*(C`CPANPLUS\*(C'\fR to crash when it encounters +an unparseable version string. Upgrading to \f(CW\*(C`CPANPLUS\*(C'\fR 0.9004 or +\&\f(CW\*(C`Module::Load::Conditional\*(C'\fR 0.38 from CPAN will resolve this issue. +.SH Acknowledgements +.IX Header "Acknowledgements" +Perl 5.12.1 represents approximately four weeks of development since +Perl 5.12.0 and contains approximately 4,000 lines of changes +across 142 files from 28 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 5.12.1: +.PP +Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Chris Williams, chromatic, Craig A. Berry, +David Golden, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Frank Wiegand, +Gene Sullivan, Goro Fuji, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, Jan Dubois, +Jesse Vincent, Josh ben Jore, Karl Williamson, Leon Brocard, Michael +Schwern, Nga Tang Chan, Nicholas Clark, Niko Tyni, Philippe Bruhat, +Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Ricardo Signes, Steffen Mueller, Todd Rinaldo, +Vincent Pit and Zefram. +.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 \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. +.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 will 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. |