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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-10-31 11:34:16 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2015-10-31 11:34:16 +0000
commit7206936f09d5cb876114b9e8f87df676290f44d0 (patch)
treead6ea405856a282118a9136dfe9549fb04a6278d
parent02b2b34aa408bd5a066eefe6180f744b5a076f95 (diff)
downloadperl-7206936f09d5cb876114b9e8f87df676290f44d0.tar.gz
perldelta for #126319
(manually cherry picked from commit 133117f50ce47b68b460f4a9e0dd2ce37078d28c) [Moved to th Incompatible Changes section, with som extra blurb by me committer about the exception being made here.]
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@@ -14,13 +14,21 @@ L<perl5220delta>, which describes differences between 5.20.0 and 5.22.0.
=head1 Incompatible Changes
-XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be:
-
- There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX
- If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a
- report. See L</Reporting Bugs> below.
-
-[ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ]
+There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.0 other than the
+following single exception, which we deemed to be a sensible change to make in
+order to get the new C<\b{wb}> and (in particular) C<\b{sb}> features sane
+before people decided they're worthless because of bugs in their Perl 5.22.0
+implementation and avoided them in the future.
+If any others exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report.
+See L</Reporting Bugs> below.
+
+=head2
+
+Several bugs, including a segmentation fault, have been fixed with the bounds
+checking constructs (introduced in Perl 5.22) C<\b{gcb}>, C<\b{sb}>, C<\b{wb}>,
+C<\B{gcb}>, C<\B{sb}>, and C<\B{wb}>. All the C<\B{}> ones now match an empty
+string; none of the C<\b{}> ones do.
+L<[perl #126319]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126319>
=head1 Modules and Pragmata