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diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt index c828d37345..085bf1dba1 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.0.txt @@ -75,6 +75,20 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * The build procedure for perl/ part has been greatly simplified by weaning ourselves off of MakeMaker. + * Perl 5.8 or greater has been required since Git 1.7.4 released in + 2010, but we continued to assume some core modules may not exist and + used a conditional "eval { require <<module>> }"; we no longer do + this. Some platforms (Fedora/RedHat/CentOS, for example) ship Perl + without all core modules by default (e.g. Digest::MD5, File::Temp, + File::Spec, Net::Domain, Net::SMTP). Users on such platforms may + need to install these additional modules. + + * As a convenience, we install copies of Perl modules we require which + are not part of the core Perl distribution (e.g. Error and + Mail::Address). Users and packagers whose operating system provides + these modules can set NO_PERL_CPAN_FALLBACKS to avoid installing the + bundled modules. + * In preparation for implementing narrow/partial clone, the machinery for checking object connectivity used by gc and fsck has been taught that a missing object is OK when it is referenced by a |