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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2013-10-19 16:08:16 +0100
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2013-10-19 17:44:18 +0100
commit40d779aa86af2730897aeb8753dcdecc93ea5caf (patch)
tree5c9dafedd79a33429de91e5c104a1c3dc87571b7
parent6d1e0911864d555c9a4092b6f03614010f4243c7 (diff)
downloadperl-40d779aa86af2730897aeb8753dcdecc93ea5caf.tar.gz
perldelta - Corrections and updates
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod32
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 3c9b2f6cb2..3737aaa920 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be:
=head2 Functions C<PerlIO_vsprintf> and C<PerlIO_sprintf> have been removed
-These two functions, undocumented, unused in CPAN, and problematic have been
+These two functions, undocumented, unused in CPAN, and problematic, have been
removed.
=head1 Deprecations
@@ -215,8 +215,8 @@ Some POD formatting errors in the documentation have been corrected.
L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> has been upgraded from version 6.76 to 6.80.
-Numerous updates and bug fixes are incorporated. See the F<Changes> file for
-full details.
+Numerous updates and bug fixes are incorporated. See the F<Changes> file in
+the CPAN distribution for full details.
=item *
@@ -262,7 +262,7 @@ keep in sync with the latest CPAN release.
=item *
-L<JSON::PP> has been upgraded from version 2.27202 to 2.27203.
+L<JSON::PP> has been upgraded from version 2.27202_01 to 2.27203.
A return/or precedence issue in C<_incr_parse> has been fixed.
@@ -325,10 +325,10 @@ enabled and C<use parent> instead of @ISA.
=item *
-L<Test::Simple> has been upgraded from version 0.98 to 0.99.
+L<Test::Simple> has been upgraded from version 0.98_06 to 0.99.
-Numerous updates and bug fixes are incorporated. See the F<Changes> file for
-full details.
+Numerous updates and bug fixes are incorporated. See the F<Changes> file in
+the CPAN distribution for full details.
=item *
@@ -338,6 +338,13 @@ The documentation of C<alarm> and C<_handle> has been updated.
=item *
+L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.54 to 0.55.
+
+An internals-only change has been made to handle changes in format within some
+character database tables.
+
+=item *
+
L<Unicode::Normalize> has been upgraded from version 1.16 to 1.17.
The module now C<die>s if it cannot get Unicode code points using C<unpack>.
@@ -539,6 +546,17 @@ that they represent may be covered elsewhere.
=item *
+The new prototype attribute syntax is tested by a new test script,
+F<t/op/attrproto.t>.
+
+=item *
+
+The new test script F<t/io/closepid.t> tests that C<close> on the original of a
+popen handle dupped to a standard handle no longer blocks internally on
+C<waitpid(0, ...)>.
+
+=item *
+
The new postfix dereference syntax is tested by a new test script,
F<t/op/postfixderef.t>.