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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2021-01-09 13:51:48 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2021-01-09 13:51:48 +0000
commitbd2615ae11d645969d6d268c036c832c6890767f (patch)
tree6981f4fabc9edf84e92cb33190502c2d7ee0c159
parent2b39d356f45c4d0857ac48e65d8c2dd317e07e9b (diff)
downloadperl-bd2615ae11d645969d6d268c036c832c6890767f.tar.gz
perldelta - Add final notes
(Includes Porting\corelist-perldelta.pl for the modules)
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod120
1 files changed, 92 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 7f25c979d9..5346bd41d0 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -14,9 +14,9 @@ L<perl5320delta>, which describes differences between 5.31.0 and 5.32.0.
=head1 Incompatible Changes
-There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.32.0. If any exist,
-they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See L</Reporting Bugs>
-below.
+There are no changes intentionally incompatible with Perl 5.32.0. If any
+exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See
+L</Reporting Bugs> below.
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
@@ -26,9 +26,31 @@ below.
=item *
-L<XXX> has been upgraded from version A.xx to B.yy.
+L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from version 2.174 to 2.174_01.
-If there was something important to note about this change, include that here.
+A number of memory leaks have been fixed.
+
+=item *
+
+L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.47 to 1.47_01.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20200620 to 5.20210109.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Opcode> has been upgraded from version 1.47 to 1.48.
+
+A warning has been added about evaluating untrusted code with the perl
+interpreter.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Safe> has been upgraded from version 2.41 to 2.41_01.
+
+A warning has been added about evaluating untrusted code with the perl
+interpreter.
=back
@@ -36,15 +58,20 @@ If there was something important to note about this change, include that here.
=head2 New Documentation
-=head3 L<XXX>
+=head3 L<perlgov>
-XXX Description of the purpose of the new file here
+Documentation of the newly formed rules of governance for Perl.
+
+=head3 L<perlsecpolicy>
+
+Documentation of how the Perl security team operates and how the team evaluates
+new security reports.
=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
-We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes
-listed in this document. If you find any we have missed, open an issue
-at L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
+We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes listed in
+this document. If you find any we have missed, open an issue at
+L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:
@@ -54,7 +81,7 @@ Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:
=item *
-Document range op behavior change.
+Document range op behaviour change.
=back
@@ -72,8 +99,10 @@ diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
L<\K not permitted in lookahead/lookbehind in regex; marked by <-- HERE in mE<sol>%sE<sol>|perldiag/"\K not permitted in lookahead/lookbehind in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/%s/">
-This error was incorrectly produced in some cases involving nested
-lookarounds. This has been fixed. [GH #18123]
+This error was incorrectly produced in some cases involving nested lookarounds.
+This has been fixed.
+
+[L<GH #18123|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18123>]
=back
@@ -83,8 +112,8 @@ lookarounds. This has been fixed. [GH #18123]
=item *
-Newer 64-bit versions of the Intel C/C++ compiler are now recognised
-and have the correct flags set.
+Newer 64-bit versions of the Intel C/C++ compiler are now recognized and have
+the correct flags set.
=item *
@@ -100,8 +129,8 @@ core dump.
=head1 Testing
-Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes
-in this release.
+Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this
+release.
=head1 Platform Support
@@ -111,8 +140,17 @@ in this release.
=item MacOS (Darwin)
-The hints file for darwin has been updated to handle future MacOS versions
-beyond 10. L<GH #17946|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17946>
+The hints file for darwin has been updated to handle future macOS versions
+beyond 10. Perl can now be built on macOS Big Sur.
+
+[L<GH #17946|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17946>,
+L<GH #18406|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18406>]
+
+=item Minix
+
+Build errors on Minix have been fixed.
+
+[L<GH #17908|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17908>]
=back
@@ -122,13 +160,17 @@ beyond 10. L<GH #17946|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17946>
=item *
-On Win32, C<waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)> could sometimes have a very large
-timeout. GH #16529
+On Win32, C<waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)> could sometimes have a very large timeout.
+
+[L<GH #16529|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16529>]
=item *
Some list assignments involving C<undef> on the left-hand side were
-over-optimized and produced incorrect results. L<GH #16685|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16685>, L<GH #17816|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17816>
+over-optimized and produced incorrect results.
+
+[L<GH #16685|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16685>,
+L<GH #17816|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17816>]
=item *
@@ -137,6 +179,28 @@ incorrectly.
[L<GH #18096|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18096>]
+=item *
+
+Fixed a deadlock that hung the build when Perl is compiled for debugging memory
+problems and has PERL_MEM_LOG enabled.
+
+[L<GH #18341|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18341>]
+
+=item *
+
+Fixed a crash in the use of chained comparison operators when run under "no
+warnings 'uninitialized'".
+
+[L<GH #17917|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17917>,
+L<GH #18380|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18380>]
+
+=item *
+
+Exceptions thrown from destructors during global destruction are no longer
+swallowed.
+
+[L<GH #18063|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18063>]
+
=back
=head1 Acknowledgements
@@ -147,8 +211,8 @@ XXX Generate this with:
=head1 Reporting Bugs
-If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database
-at L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be information at
+If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at
+L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be information at
L<http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
@@ -157,13 +221,13 @@ 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
-L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION>
-for details of how to report the issue.
+L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> for details of how to
+report the issue.
=head1 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 C<perlthanks> program:
+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 C<perlthanks> program:
perlthanks