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Always turn off hyphenation; it makes +.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents. +.if n .ad l +.nh +.SH NAME +perl5181delta \- what is new for perl v5.18.1 +.SH DESCRIPTION +.IX Header "DESCRIPTION" +This document describes differences between the 5.18.0 release and the 5.18.1 +release. +.PP +If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.16.0, first read +perl5180delta, which describes differences between 5.16.0 and 5.18.0. +.SH "Incompatible Changes" +.IX Header "Incompatible Changes" +There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.18.0 +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 +B has been upgraded from 1.42 to 1.42_01, fixing bugs related to lexical +subroutines. +.IP \(bu 4 +Digest::SHA has been upgraded from 5.84 to 5.84_01, fixing a crashing bug. +[RT #118649] +.IP \(bu 4 +Module::CoreList has been upgraded from 2.89 to 2.96. +.SH "Platform Support" +.IX Header "Platform Support" +.SS "Platform-Specific Notes" +.IX Subsection "Platform-Specific Notes" +.IP AIX 4 +.IX Item "AIX" +A rarely-encountered configuration bug in the AIX hints file has been corrected. +.IP MidnightBSD 4 +.IX Item "MidnightBSD" +After a patch to the relevant hints file, perl should now build correctly on +MidnightBSD 0.4\-RELEASE. +.SH "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IX Header "Selected Bug Fixes" +.IP \(bu 4 +Starting in v5.18.0, a construct like \f(CW\*(C`/[#](?{})/x\*(C'\fR would have its \f(CW\*(C`#\*(C'\fR +incorrectly interpreted as a comment. The code block would be skipped, +unparsed. This has been corrected. +.IP \(bu 4 +A number of memory leaks related to the new, experimental regexp bracketed +character class feature have been plugged. +.IP \(bu 4 +The OP allocation code now returns correctly aligned memory in all cases +for \f(CW\*(C`struct pmop\*(C'\fR. Previously it could return memory only aligned to a +4\-byte boundary, which is not correct for an ithreads build with 64 bit IVs +on some 32 bit platforms. Notably, this caused the build to fail completely +on sparc GNU/Linux. [RT #118055] +.IP \(bu 4 +The debugger's \f(CW\*(C`man\*(C'\fR command been fixed. It was broken in the v5.18.0 +release. The \f(CW\*(C`man\*(C'\fR command is aliased to the names \f(CW\*(C`doc\*(C'\fR and \f(CW\*(C`perldoc\*(C'\fR \- +all now work again. +.IP \(bu 4 +\&\f(CW@_\fR is now correctly visible in the debugger, fixing a regression +introduced in v5.18.0's debugger. [RT #118169] +.IP \(bu 4 +Fixed a small number of regexp constructions that could either fail to +match or crash perl when the string being matched against was +allocated above the 2GB line on 32\-bit systems. [RT #118175] +.IP \(bu 4 +Perl v5.16 inadvertently introduced a bug whereby calls to XSUBs that were +not visible at compile time were treated as lvalues and could be assigned +to, even when the subroutine was not an lvalue sub. This has been fixed. +[perl #117947] +.IP \(bu 4 +Perl v5.18 inadvertently introduced a bug whereby dual-vars (i.e. +variables with both string and numeric values, such as \f(CW$!\fR ) where the +truthness of the variable was determined by the numeric value rather than +the string value. [RT #118159] +.IP \(bu 4 +Perl v5.18 inadvertently introduced a bug whereby interpolating mixed up\- +and down-graded UTF\-8 strings in a regex could result in malformed UTF\-8 +in the pattern: specifically if a downgraded character in the range +\&\f(CW\*(C`\ex80..\exff\*(C'\fR followed a UTF\-8 string, e.g. +.Sp +.Vb 3 +\& utf8::upgrade( my $u = "\ex{e5}"); +\& utf8::downgrade(my $d = "\ex{e5}"); +\& /$u$d/ +.Ve +.Sp +[perl #118297]. +.IP \(bu 4 +Lexical constants (\f(CW\*(C`my sub a() { 42 }\*(C'\fR) no longer crash when inlined. +.IP \(bu 4 +Parameter prototypes attached to lexical subroutines are now respected when +compiling sub calls without parentheses. Previously, the prototypes were +honoured only for calls \fIwith\fR parentheses. [RT #116735] +.IP \(bu 4 +Syntax errors in lexical subroutines in combination with calls to the same +subroutines no longer cause crashes at compile time. +.IP \(bu 4 +The dtrace sub-entry probe now works with lexical subs, instead of +crashing [perl #118305]. +.IP \(bu 4 +Undefining an inlinable lexical subroutine (\f(CWmy sub foo() { 42 } undef +&foo\fR) would result in a crash if warnings were turned on. +.IP \(bu 4 +Deep recursion warnings no longer crash lexical subroutines. [RT #118521] +.SH Acknowledgements +.IX Header "Acknowledgements" +Perl 5.18.1 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl 5.18.0 +and contains approximately 8,400 lines of changes across 60 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 5.18.1: +.PP +Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, David +Mitchell, Father Chrysostomos, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Nicholas Clark, +Peter Martini, Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish, Tony Cook. +.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 +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 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. |