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| author | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2003-11-02 20:16:07 +0000 |
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| committer | Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org> | 2003-11-02 20:16:07 +0000 |
| commit | 373b0b47a72f2fb3206fbb5b1fcb15237711c325 (patch) | |
| tree | 9a2c6b1ccdc0c4fe48ff587effb6e5c6bc3531e0 | |
| parent | c5aba7b8c3e68160a7c169f625f693c8a67a42cf (diff) | |
| download | perl-373b0b47a72f2fb3206fbb5b1fcb15237711c325.tar.gz | |
Tweaks (from Jan Dubois, Petras Kudaras and Slaven Rezic)
p4raw-id: //depot/maint-5.8/perl@21624
| -rw-r--r-- | pod/perldelta.pod | 18 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 60ec9746ce..bf9f5fecec 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -14,7 +14,15 @@ the L<perl58delta>, which describes differences between 5.6.0 and =head1 Incompatible Changes -None, we believe. +For threaded builds for modules calling certain re-entrant system calls, +binary compatibility was accidentally lost between 5.8.0 and 5.8.1. +Binary compatibility with 5.8.0 has been restored in 5.8.2, which +necessitates breaking compatibility with 5.8.1. We see this as the +lesser of two evils. + +This will only affect people who have a threaded perl 5.8.1, and compiled +modules which use these calls, and now attempt to run the compiled modules +with 5.8.2. The fix is to re-compile and re-install the modules using 5.8.2. =head1 Core Enhancements @@ -72,6 +80,8 @@ Documentation improved =item UNIVERSAL +Documentation improved + =back =head1 Selected Bug Fixes @@ -85,8 +95,6 @@ Interpreter initialization is more complete when -DMULTIPLICITY is off. This should resolve problems with initializing and destroying the Perl interpreter more than once in a single process. -dup2() now uses the PerlLIO abstraction layer - =head1 Platform Specific Problems Dynamic linker flags have been tweaked for Solaris and OS X, which should @@ -131,8 +139,8 @@ See L<perl581delta/"Future Directions"> for more soothsaying. 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 F<http://bugs.perl.org/>. There may also be -information at F<http://www.perl.com/>, the Perl Home Page. +bug database at http://bugs.perl.org/. There may also be +information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug> program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down |