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authorSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2019-10-27 10:53:33 +0000
committerSteve Hay <steve.m.hay@googlemail.com>2019-10-27 10:53:33 +0000
commit4fc63012fc0e42074e87393b96f84ee7524d858d (patch)
tree1d06829120139d09ef412039d726e1fc8b92f27e
parent3722f023c21b687f7819b0efa13106a8f5021d70 (diff)
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perldelta - Documentation section
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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 431b69d33c..4b0c99d11d 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20190522 to 5.20191027.
=back
+=head1 Documentation
+
+=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, send email to
+L<perlbug@perl.org|mailto:perlbug@perl.org>.
+
+Additionally, documentation has been updated to reference GitHub as the new
+canonical repository and to describe the new GitHub pull request workflow.
+
=head1 Configuration and Compilation
=over 4
@@ -56,12 +67,14 @@ release.
=item Win32
-The locale tests could crash on Win32 due to a Windows bug, and
-separately due to the CRT throwing an exception if the locale name
-wasn't validly encoded in the current code page.
+The locale tests could crash on Win32 due to a Windows bug, and separately due
+to the CRT throwing an exception if the locale name wasn't validly encoded in
+the current code page.
+
+For the second we now decode the locale name ourselves, and always decode it as
+UTF-8.
-For the second we now decode the locale name ourselves, and always
-decode it as UTF-8. [perl #133981]
+L<[perl #16922]|https://github.com/perl/perl5/issues/16922>
=back
@@ -101,8 +114,9 @@ L<[perl #16942]|https://github.com/perl/perl5/issues/16942>
=item *
-scalar() on a reference could cause an erroneous assertion failure
-during compilation. [perl #134045]
+C<scalar()> on a reference could cause an erroneous assertion failure during
+compilation.
+L<[perl #16969]|https://github.com/perl/perl5/issues/16969>
=back