manpagez: man pages & more
man perl5361delta(1)
Home | html | info | man
PERL5361DELTA(1)       Perl Programmers Reference Guide       PERL5361DELTA(1)



NAME

       perl5361delta - what is new for perl v5.36.1


DESCRIPTION

       This document describes differences between the 5.36.0 release and the
       5.36.1 release.

       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.35.0, first read
       perl5360delta, which describes differences between 5.35.0 and 5.36.0.


Incompatible Changes

       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.36.0.  If any
       exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report.  See
       "Reporting Bugs" below.


Modules and Pragmata

   Updated Modules and Pragmata
       o   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20220520 to
           5.20230423.


Configuration and Compilation

       o   "Configure" probed for the return type of malloc() and free() by
           testing whether declarations for those functions produced a
           function type mismatch with the implementation.  On Solaris, with a
           C++ compiler, this check always failed, since Solaris instead
           imports malloc() and free() from "std::" with "using" for C++
           builds.  Since the return types of malloc() and free() are well
           defined by the C standard, skip probing for them.  "Configure"
           command-line arguments and hints can still override these type in
           the unlikely case that is needed.  [GH #20806
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20806>]


Testing

       Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes
       in this release.


Selected Bug Fixes

       o   An eval() as the last statement in a regex code block could trigger
           an interpreter panic; e.g.

               /(?{ ...; eval {....}; })/

           [GH #19680 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19680>]

       o   An "eval EXPR" referring to a lexical sub defined in grandparent
           scope no longer produces an assertion failures.  [GH #19857
           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19857>]

       o   Writing to a magic variables associated with the selected output
           handle, $^, $~, $=, "$-" and $%, no longer crashes perl if the IO
           object has been cleared from the selected output handle.  [GH
           #20733 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20733>]


Acknowledgements

       Perl 5.36.1 represents approximately 11 months of development since
       Perl 5.36.0 and contains approximately 5,500 lines of changes across 62
       files from 24 authors.

       Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
       were approximately 1,600 lines of changes to 23 .pm, .t, .c and .h
       files.

       Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
       community of users and developers.  The following people are known to
       have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.36.1:

       Andreas Konig, Bram, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn
       Ilmari Mannsaker, David Mitchell, Elvin Aslanov, Florian Weimer, Graham
       Knop, Hugo van der Sanden, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon
       Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Neil Bowers, Nicolas R,
       Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Steve Hay, Todd Rinaldo,
       Tony Cook, Yves Orton.

       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.

       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.

       For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
       please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.


Reporting Bugs

       If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug
       database at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  There may also be
       information at <http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.

       If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  Be sure to trim your bug down
       to a tiny but sufficient test case.

       If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
       inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY
       VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
       report the issue.


Give Thanks

       If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in
       Perl 5, you can do so by running the "perlthanks" program:

           perlthanks

       This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of
       thanks.


SEE ALSO

       The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details
       on what changed.

       The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.

       The README file for general stuff.

       The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.

perl v5.38.2                      2023-11-28                  PERL5361DELTA(1)

perl 5.38.2 - Generated Fri Nov 29 07:14:24 CST 2024
© manpagez.com 2000-2024
Individual documents may contain additional copyright information.