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authorRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2013-12-21 15:38:07 -0500
committerRicardo Signes <rjbs@cpan.org>2013-12-21 15:48:54 -0500
commite59686afcf45854c080fd6bc7af0dc497ae0d62d (patch)
treecbd9387b8e8c8616b8d963ee223340eb60aa4887
parentcb64a7045243d3dc62865741d39a0125972cbf14 (diff)
downloadperl-e59686afcf45854c080fd6bc7af0dc497ae0d62d.tar.gz
perldelta for the rest of the changes since RC3
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod42
1 files changed, 42 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 90f44e0feb..16349cad71 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -29,6 +29,12 @@ C<B::SPECIAL> object in this case. [perl #119413]
=item *
+L<B::Concise> has been upgraded from version 0.95 to 0.95_01.
+
+This fixes a bug in dumping unexpected SEPCIALs.
+
+=item *
+
L<English> has been upgraded from version 1.06 to 1.06_01. This fixes an
error about the performance of C<$`>, C<$&>, and c<$'>.
@@ -38,6 +44,22 @@ L<File::Glob> has been upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.20_01.
=back
+=head1 Documentation
+
+=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+L<perlrepository> has been restored with a pointer to more useful pages.
+
+=item *
+
+L<perlhack> has been updated with the latest changes from blead.
+
+=back
+
=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
=over 4
@@ -68,6 +90,26 @@ has been fixed. [perl #120288]
=item *
+Previously PerlIOBase_dup didn't check if pushing the new layer succeeded
+before (optionally) setting the utf8 flag. This could cause
+segfaults-by-nullpointer. This has been fixed.
+
+=item *
+
+A buffer overflow with very long identifiers has been fixed.
+
+=item *
+
+A regression from 5.16 in the handling of padranges led to assertion failures
+if a keyword plugin declined to handle the second ‘my’, but only after creating
+a padop.
+
+This affected, at least, Devel::CallParser under threaded builds.
+
+This has been fixed
+
+=item *
+
The construct C<< $r=qr/.../; /$r/p >> is now handled properly, an issue which
had been worsened by changes 5.18.0. [perl #118213]