Reformatted Data-Dumper Changes as per CPAN::Changes::Spec

This means that tools can parse this, and in particular MetaCPAN
will list the changes when you look at the dist/release page for
Data-Dumper.

dist/Data-Dumpers/Changes used to be in pod, with a known pod
issue, so that's now dropped.

Updated AUTHORS and checkAUTHORS, as my github account has
an email address not currently known, but it's my prime
email address for Perl stuff.

4 files changed, 302 insertions, 389 deletions

diff --git a/AUTHORS b/AUTHORS
index b7bcaada33..44e65f89dd 100644
--- a/AUTHORS
+++ b/AUTHORS
@@ -938,7 +938,7 @@ Nathan Kurz                    <nate@valleytel.net>
 Nathan Torkington              <gnat@frii.com>
 Nathan Trapuzzano              <nbtrap@nbtrap.com>
 Neale Ferguson                 <neale@VMA.TABNSW.COM.AU>
-Neil Bowers                    <neil@bowers.com>
+Neil Bowers                    <neilb@neilb.org>
 Neil Watkiss                   <neil.watkiss@sophos.com>
 Neil Williams                  <codehelp@debian.org>
 Nicholas Clark                 <nick@ccl4.org>
diff --git a/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl b/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
index 0fd8a39d4a..247f13e6b8 100755
--- a/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
+++ b/Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
@@ -1043,7 +1043,8 @@ moritz\100casella.verplant.org          moritz\100faui2k3.org
 
 neale\100VMA.TABNSW.COM.AU              neale\100pucc.princeton.edu
 neeracher\100mac.com                    neeri\100iis.ee.ethz.ch
-neil\100bowers.com                      neilb\100cre.canon.co.uk
+neilb\100neilb.org                      neilb\100cre.canon.co.uk
++                                       neil\100bowers.com
 
 nospam-abuse\100bloodgate.com           tels\100bloodgate.com
 +                                       perl_dummy\100bloodgate.com
diff --git a/dist/Data-Dumper/Changes b/dist/Data-Dumper/Changes
index 49cec05fa2..57da22f102 100644
--- a/dist/Data-Dumper/Changes
+++ b/dist/Data-Dumper/Changes
@@ -1,509 +1,422 @@
-=head1 NAME
+Revision history for Perl core module Data::Dumper
 
-Changes - public release history for Data::Dumper
+2.181_50 2021-06-29 NWCLARK
+    - Set bugtracker metadata to https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues
 
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-=over 8
+2.181 2021-05-26 NWCLARK
+    - No changes from previous dev release.
 
-=item 2.181_50 (Jun 29 2021)
 
-Set bugtracker metadata to https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues
+2.180_53 2021-05-25 NWCLARK
+    - Fix Makefile.PL to install to "perl" for 5.10.x and earlier (CPAN #12282)
 
-=item 2.181 (May 25 2021)
 
-No changes from previous dev release.
+2.180_52 2021-05-24 NWCLARK
+    - Remove no longer needed compatibility shims,
+      and use ppport.h whenever possible.
 
-=item 2.180_53 (May 25 2021)
 
-Fix Makefile.PL to install to "perl" for 5.10.x and earlier (CPAN #12282)
+2.180_51 2021-05-23 NWCLARK
+    - Convert dumper.t to Test::More and
+      eliminate a lot of test code duplication.
 
-=item 2.180_52 (May 24 2021)
 
-Remove no longer needed compatibility shims, and use ppport.h whenever possible.
+2.180_50 2021-05-22 NWCLARK
+    - Data::Dumper now requires Perl v5.8.1 or later.
 
-=item 2.180_51 (May 23 2021)
 
-Convert dumper.t to Test::More and eliminate a lot of test code duplication.
+2.180 2021-05-17 NWCLARK
+    - No changes from previous dev release.
 
-=item 2.180_50 (May 22 2021)
 
-Data::Dumper now requires Perl v5.8.1 or later.
+2.179_50 2021-05-14 NWCLARK
+    - Data::Dumper handles Unicode regex corner cases (GH #18614, GH #18764)
 
-=item 2.180 (May 17 2021)
 
-No changes from previous dev release.
+2.179 2021-05-13 NWCLARK
+    - Revert the changes of 2.177 for the v5.34.0 release to avoid a regression.
 
-=item 2.179_50 (May 14 2021)
 
-Data::Dumper handles Unicode regex corner cases (GH #18614, GH #18764)
+2.178 2021-04-07 NWCLARK
+    - Correct documentation of indent Style 2.
 
-=item 2.179 (May 13 2021)
 
-Revert the changes of 2.177 for the v5.34.0 release to avoid a regression.
+2.177 2021-03-03 NWCLARK
+    - Make Data::Dumper mark regex output as UTF-8 if needed. (GH #18614)
 
-=item 2.178 (Apr  7 2021)
 
-Correct documentation of indent Style 2.
+2.176 2020-09-30
+    - Make Data::Dumper strict and warnings compliant.
 
-=item 2.177 (Mar  3 2021)
 
-Make Data::Dumper mark regex output as UTF-8 if needed. (GH #18614)
+2.175 2020-08-13
+    - Avoid some leaks if we call get magic and that throws an exception.
 
-=item 2.176 (Sep 30 2020)
 
-Make Data::Dumper strict and warnings compliant.
+2.174 2019-04-03
+    - Avoid leaking if we croak due to excessive recursion.
 
-=item 2.175 (Aug 13 2020)
 
-Avoid some leaks if we call get magic and that throws an exception.
+2.173 2018-11-10 XSAWYERX
+    - perl #133624: Reinstate support for 5.8.8 and older.
 
-=item 2.174 (Apr  3 2019)
 
-Avoid leaking if we croak due to excessive recursion.
+2.172 2018-09-19 XSAWYERX
+    - Prepare recent changes for CPAN release
 
-=item 2.173 (Nov 10 2018)
 
-perl #133624: Reinstate support for 5.8.8 and older.
+2.171 2018-04-21
+    - Restore deparsing support in the XS dumper, on Perl 5.18 and earlier
+    - Test fixes on older Perl versions (notably, skip tests for Unicode glob
+      names on Perl 5.14 and earlier, which had incomplete support for Unicode
+      in globs)
 
-=item 2.172 (Sep 19 2018)
 
-Prepare recent changes for CPAN release
+2.170 2018-01-10
+    - Fix bug when dumping globs with quoting (which now happens for
+      all Unicode glob names)
+    - Internal change: use strlcpy(), for safety
 
-=item 2.171 (Apr 21 2018)
 
-Restore deparsing support in the XS dumper, on Perl 5.18 and earlier
+2.169 2017-12-12
+    - Behavior change: $dumper->Useqq(undef) is now treated as setting the
+      "useqq" option, not getting it (and similarly for other options)
+      [perl #113090]
 
-Test fixes on older Perl versions (notably, skip tests for Unicode glob
-names on Perl 5.14 and earlier, which had incomplete support for Unicode
-in globs)
 
-=item 2.170 (Jan 10 2018)
+2.168 2017-12-01
+    - perl #119831: Quote glob names better; notably, Unicode globs are
+      now handled correctly
 
-Fix bug when dumping globs with quoting (which now happens for
-all Unicode glob names)
 
-Internal change: use strlcpy(), for safety
+2.167_02 2017-08-04 SMUELLER
+    - Attempt to work around XS deparse issues on old perls.
+      According to the few old perls at my disposure, this now repairs,
+      for example 5.18, but 5.8.9 still barfs. My debugging hasn't
+      really come up with much since all changes other than the deparse
+      change look benign to me.
+      Can someone who uses ancient perls please step up and take a look?
+      --Steffen
 
-=item 2.169 (Dec 12 2017)
 
-Behavior change: $dumper->Useqq(undef) is now treated as setting the
-"useqq" option, not getting it (and similarly for other options)
-[perl #113090]
+2.167_01 2017-07-31 SMUELLER
+    - CPAN dev release with the accumulated changes from core perl.
 
-=item 2.168 (Dec  1, 2017)
 
-perl #119831: Quote glob names better; notably, Unicode globs are
-now handled correctly
+2.166 2016-11-29
+    - Reduce memory usage by not importing from Carp
+    - Reduce memory usage by removing unused overload require.
 
-=item 2.167_02  (Aug  4 2017)
 
-Attempt to work around XS deparse issues on old perls.
-According to the few old perls at my disposure, this now repairs,
-for example 5.18, but 5.8.9 still barfs. My debugging hasn't
-really come up with much since all changes other than the deparse
-change look benign to me.
-Can someone who uses ancient perls please step up and take a look?
---Steffen
+2.165 2016-11-20
+    - Remove impediment to compiling under C++11.
 
-=item 2.167_01  (Jul 31 2017)
 
-CPAN dev release with the accumulated changes from core perl.
+2.164 2016-11-12
+    - The XS implementation now handles the C<Deparse> option, so using it no
+      longer forces use of the pure-Perl version.
 
-=item 2.166 (Nov 29 2016)
 
-Reduce memory usage by not importing from Carp
-Reduce memory usage by removing unused overload require.
+2.161 2016-07-11 SMUELLER
+    - Perl 5.12 fix/workaround until fixed PPPort release.
+    - Pre-5.12 fixes for test dependency.
 
-=item 2.165 (Nov 20 2016)
 
-Remove impediment to compiling under C++11.
+2.160 2016-07-03 SMUELLER
+    - Now handles huge inputs on 64bit perls.
+    - Add Trailingcomma option. This is as suggested in RT#126813.
+    - Significant refactoring of XS implementation.
+    - Pure Perl implementation fixes in corner cases ("\n" dumped raw").
 
-=item 2.164 (Nov 12 2016)
 
-The XS implementation now handles the C<Deparse> option, so using it no
-longer forces use of the pure-Perl version.
+2.154 2014-09-18 SMUELLER
+    - Most notably, this release fixes CVE-2014-4330:
+      Don't recurse infinitely in Data::Dumper
+      Add a configuration variable/option to limit recursion when dumping
+      deep data structures.
+      [...]
+      This patch addresses CVE-2014-4330.  This bug was found and
+      reported by: LSE Leading Security Experts GmbH employee Markus
+      Vervier.
+    - On top of that, there are several minor big fixes and improvements,
+      see "git log" if the core perl distribution for details.
 
-=item 2.161 (Jul 11 2016)
 
-Perl 5.12 fix/workaround until fixed PPPort release.
+2.151 2014-03-07 SMUELLER
+    - A "useqq" implementation for the XS version of Data::Dumper.
+    - Better compatibility wrt. hash key quoting between PP and XS
+      versions of Data::Dumper.
+    - EBCDIC fixes.
+    - 64bit safety fixes (for very large arrays).
+    - Build fixes for threaded perls.
+    - clang warning fixes.
+    - Warning fixes in tests on older perls.
+    - Typo fixes in documentation.
 
-Pre-5.12 fixes for test dependency.
 
-=item 2.160 (Jul 3 2016)
+2.145 2013-03-15 SMUELLER
+    - Test refactoring and fixing wide and far.
+    - Various old-perl compat fixes.
 
-Now handles huge inputs on 64bit perls.
 
-Add Trailingcomma option. This is as suggested in RT#126813.
+2.143 2013-02-26 SMUELLER
+    - Address vstring related test failures on 5.8: Skip tests for
+      obscure case.
+    - Major improvements to test coverage and significant refactoring.
+    - Make Data::Dumper XS ignore Freezer return value. Fixes RT #116364.
+    - Change call of isALNUM to equivalent but more clearly named isWORDCHAR
 
-Significant refactoring of XS implementation.
 
-Pure Perl implementation fixes in corner cases ("\n" dumped raw").
+2.139 2012-12-12 SMUELLER
+    - Supply an explicit dynamic_config => 0 in META
+    - Properly list BUILD_REQUIRES prereqs (P5-RT#116028)
+    - Some optimizations. Removed useless "register" declarations.
 
-=item 2.154 (Sep 18 2014)
 
-Most notably, this release fixes CVE-2014-4330:
+2.136 2012-10-04 SMUELLER
+    - Promote to stable release.
+    - Drop some "register" declarations.
 
-  Don't recurse infinitely in Data::Dumper
 
-  Add a configuration variable/option to limit recursion when dumping
-  deep data structures.
-  [...]
-  This patch addresses CVE-2014-4330.  This bug was found and
-  reported by: LSE Leading Security Experts GmbH employee Markus
-  Vervier.
+2.135_07 2012-08-07 SMUELLER
+    - Use the new utf8 to code point functions - fixing a potential
+      reading buffer overrun.
+    - Data::Dumper: Sparseseen option to avoid building much of the seen
+      hash: This has been measured to, in some cases, provide a 50% speed-up
+    - Dumper.xs: Avoid scan_vstring on 5.17.3 and up
+    - Avoid a warning from clang when compiling Data::Dumper
+    - Fix DD's dumping of qr|\/|
+    - Data::Dumper's Perl implementation was not working with overloaded
+      blessed globs, which it thought were strings.
+    - Allow Data::Dumper to load on miniperl
 
-On top of that, there are several minor big fixes and improvements,
-see "git log" if the core perl distribution for details.
 
-=item 2.151 (Mar 7 2014)
+2.135_02 2011-12-29 SMUELLER
+    - Makes DD dump *{''} properly.
+    - [perl #101162] DD support for vstrings:
+      Support for vstrings to Data::Dumper, in both Perl and XS
+      implementations.
 
-A "useqq" implementation for the XS version of Data::Dumper.
 
-Better compatibility wrt. hash key quoting between PP and XS
-versions of Data::Dumper.
+2.135_01 2011-12-19 SMUELLER
+    - Make Data::Dumper UTF8- and null-clean with GVs.
+    - In Dumper.xs, use sv_newmortal() instead of sv_mortalcopy(&PL_sv_undef)
+      for efficiency.
+    - Suppress compiler warning
+    - Keep verbatim pod in Data::Dumper within 80 cols
 
-EBCDIC fixes.
 
-64bit safety fixes (for very large arrays).
+2.131 2011-05-27 SMUELLER
+    - Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a production release.
 
-Build fixes for threaded perls.
 
-clang warning fixes.
+2.130_03 2011-05-20 SMUELLER
+    - Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a CPAN release
+      for the eventual 2.131.
 
-Warning fixes in tests on older perls.
 
-Typo fixes in documentation.
+2.130_02
+    - This was only shipped with the perl core, never released to CPAN.
+    - Convert overload.t to Test::More
+    - Fix some spelling errors
+    - Fix some compiler warnings
+    - Fix an out of bounds write in Data-Dumper with malformed utf8 input
 
-=item 2.145 (Mar 15 2013)
 
-Test refactoring and fixing wide and far.
+2.130 2010-11-20
+    - C<Dumpxs> can now handle malformed UTF-8.
 
-Various old-perl compat fixes.
 
-=item 2.143 (Feb 26 2013)
+2.129 2010-10-20
+    - C<Dumpxs> no longer crashes with globs returned by C<*$io_ref>
+      [perl #72332].
 
-Address vstring related test failures on 5.8: Skip tests for
-obscure case.
 
-Major improvements to test coverage and significant refactoring.
+2.128 2010-09-10 SMUELLER
+    - Promote previous release to stable version with the correct version.
 
-Make Data::Dumper XS ignore Freezer return value. Fixes RT #116364.
 
-Change call of isALNUM to equivalent but more clearly named isWORDCHAR
+2.127 2010-09-10 SMUELLER
+    - Promote previous release to stable version.
 
-=item 2.139 (Dec 12 2012)
 
-Supply an explicit dynamic_config => 0 in META
+2.126_01 2010-09-06 SMUELLER
+    - Port core perl changes e3ec2293dc, fe642606b19.
+      Fixes core perl RT #74170 (handle the stack changing in the
+      custom sort functions) and adds a test.
 
-Properly list BUILD_REQUIRES prereqs (P5-RT#116028)
 
-Some optimizations. Removed useless "register" declarations.
+2.126 2010-04-15 SMUELLER
+    - Fix Data::Dumper's Fix Terse(1) + Indent(2):
+      perl-RT #73604: When $Data::Dumper::Terse is true,
+      the indentation is thrown off.
+      It appears to be acting as if the $VAR1 = is still there.
 
-=item 2.136 (Oct 04 2012)
 
-Promote to stable release.
+2.125 2009-08-08 SMUELLER
+    - CPAN distribution fixes (meta information for META.yml).
 
-Drop some "register" declarations.
 
-=item 2.135_07 (Aug 06 2012)
+2.124 2009-06-13 SMUELLER
+    - Add three missing test files.
 
-Use the new utf8 to code point functions - fixing a potential
-reading buffer overrun.
 
-Data::Dumper: Sparseseen option to avoid building much of the seen
-hash: This has been measured to, in some cases, provide a 50% speed-up
+2.123 2009-06-11 SMUELLER
+    - Re-add the INSTALLDIRS => 'perl' directive to Makefile.PL
+      of the CPAN release.
 
-Dumper.xs: Avoid scan_vstring on 5.17.3 and up
 
-Avoid a warning from clang when compiling Data::Dumper
+2.122 2009-06-09 SMUELLER
+    - Promote previous developer release to stable release.
 
-Fix DD's dumping of qr|\/|
 
-Data::Dumper's Perl implementation was not working with overloaded
-blessed globs, which it thought were strings.
+2.121_20 2009-06-06 SMUELLER
+    - A host of bug fixes and improvements that have
+      accumulated in the perl core
+    - Updated backport to 5.6.1 by Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>.
 
-Allow Data::Dumper to load on miniperl
 
-=item 2.135_02 (Dec 29 2011)
+2.121 2003-08-25 ILYAM
+    - Backport to 5.6.1 by Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>.
 
-Makes DD dump *{''} properly.
 
-[perl #101162] DD support for vstrings:
-Support for vstrings to Data::Dumper, in both Perl and XS
-implementations.
+2.11  (unreleased)
+    - C<0> is now dumped as such, not as C<'0'>.
+    - qr// objects are now dumped correctly (provided a post-5.005_58)
+      overload.pm exists).
+    - Implemented $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth, which was on the Todo list.
+      Thanks to John Nolan <jpnolan@Op.Net>.
 
-=item 2.135_01 (Dec 19 2011)
 
-Make Data::Dumper UTF8- and null-clean with GVs.
+2.101 1999-05-01 GSAR
+    - Minor release to sync with version in 5.005_03.  Fixes dump of
+      dummy coderefs.
 
-In Dumper.xs, use sv_newmortal() instead of sv_mortalcopy(&PL_sv_undef)
-for efficiency.
 
-Suppress compiler warning
+2.10 1998-10-31 GSAR
+    - Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double
+      quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>.
+    - Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up
+      by the presence of nulls in the string.  Fix suggested by
+      Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>.
+    - Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values
+      are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while
+      traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become
+      used in data dumped in a later pass.  There used to be a problem
+      with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being
+      dumped correctly.
+    - Various additions to the testsuite.
 
-Keep verbatim pod in Data::Dumper within 80 cols
 
-=item 2.131 (May 27 2011)
+2.09 1998-07-17 GSAR
+    - Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>.
 
-Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a production release.
 
-=item 2.130_03 (May 20 2011)
+2.081 1998-01-15 GSAR
+    - Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args.
 
-Essentially the same as version 2.130_02, but a CPAN release
-for the eventual 2.131.
 
-=item 2.130_02
+2.08 1997-12-07 GSAR
+    - Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore.
+    - Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with
+      overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite.
+    - require 5.004.
+    - A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default).
+    - Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported.
+    - Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround.
 
-This was only shipped with the perl core, never released to CPAN.
 
-Convert overload.t to Test::More
+2.07 1996-12-07 GSAR
+    - Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump.
+      It still doesn't honor C<Useqq> though.
+    - Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability.
+    - Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed.
+    - Other small enhancements.
 
-Fix some spelling errors
 
-Fix some compiler warnings
+2.06 1996-12-02 GSAR
+    - Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples
+      MLDBM.  Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures
+      that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().)
 
-Fix an out of bounds write in Data-Dumper with malformed utf8 input
 
-=item 2.130 (Nov 20 2010)
+2.05 1996-12-02 GSAR
+    - Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail
+      on 64-bit platforms.
+    - GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the
+      *GLOB{THING} syntax).
+    - The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call
+      before probing objects for dumping.  Some applications: objects with
+      external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package;
+      Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put
+      additional information in the object to facilitate persistence.
+    - The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies
+      the method call that will revive the frozen object.
+    - The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that.
+    - Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered
+      within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood
+      <norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem.
+    - Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled
+      properly by the C<Dump> method.
+    - Significant additions to the testsuite.
+    - More documentation.
 
-C<Dumpxs> can now handle malformed UTF-8.
 
-=item 2.129 (Oct 20 2010)
+2.04b 1996-08-28 GSAR
+    - Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting.
+    - [@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes.
 
-C<Dumpxs> no longer crashes with globs returned by C<*$io_ref>
-[perl #72332].
 
-=item 2.128 (Sep 10 2010)
-
-Promote previous release to stable version with the correct version.
-
-=item 2.127 (Sep 10 2010)
-
-Promote previous release to stable version.
-
-=item 2.126_01 (Sep  6 2010)
-
-Port core perl changes e3ec2293dc, fe642606b19.
-Fixes core perl RT #74170 (handle the stack changing in the
-custom sort functions) and adds a test.
-
-=item 2.126 (Apr 15 2010)
-
-Fix Data::Dumper's Fix Terse(1) + Indent(2):
-perl-RT #73604: When $Data::Dumper::Terse is true, the indentation is thrown
-off. It appears to be acting as if the $VAR1 = is still there.
-
-=item 2.125 (Aug  8 2009)
-
-CPAN distribution fixes (meta information for META.yml).
-
-=item 2.124 (Jun 13 2009)
-
-Add three missing test files.
-
-=item 2.123 (Jun 11 2009)
-
-Re-add the INSTALLDIRS => 'perl' directive to Makefile.PL
-of the CPAN release.
-
-=item 2.122 (Jun  9 2009)
-
-Promote previous developer release to stable release.
-
-=item 2.121_20 (Jun  6 2009)
-
-A host of bug fixes and improvements that have
-accumulated in the perl core
-
-Updated backport to 5.6.1 by Steffen Mueller <smueller@cpan.org>.
-
-=item 2.121 (Aug 24 2003)
-
-Backport to 5.6.1 by Ilya Martynov <ilya@martynov.org>.
-
-=item 2.11  (unreleased)
-
-C<0> is now dumped as such, not as C<'0'>.
-
-qr// objects are now dumped correctly (provided a post-5.005_58)
-overload.pm exists).
-
-Implemented $Data::Dumper::Maxdepth, which was on the Todo list.
-Thanks to John Nolan <jpnolan@Op.Net>.
-
-=item 2.101 (30 Apr 1999)
-
-Minor release to sync with version in 5.005_03.  Fixes dump of
-dummy coderefs.
-
-=item 2.10  (31 Oct 1998)
-
-Bugfixes for dumping related undef values, globs, and better double
-quoting: three patches suggested by Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>.
-
-Escaping of single quotes in the XS version could get tripped up
-by the presence of nulls in the string.  Fix suggested by
-Slaven Rezic <eserte@cs.tu-berlin.de>.
-
-Rather large scale reworking of the logic in how seen values
-are stashed. Anonymous scalars that may be encountered while
-traversing the structure are properly tracked, in case they become
-used in data dumped in a later pass.  There used to be a problem
-with the previous logic that prevented such structures from being
-dumped correctly.
-
-Various additions to the testsuite.
-
-=item 2.09  (9 July 1998)
-
-Implement $Data::Dumper::Bless, suggested by Mark Daku <daku@nortel.ca>.
-
-=item 2.081  (15 January 1998)
-
-Minor release to fix Makefile.PL not accepting MakeMaker args.
-
-=item 2.08  (7 December 1997)
-
-Glob dumps don't output superflous 'undef' anymore.
-
-Fixes from Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no> to make Dumper() work with
-overloaded strings in recent perls, and his new testsuite.
-
-require 5.004.
-
-A separate flag to always quote hash keys (on by default).
-
-Recreating known CODE refs is now better supported.
-
-Changed flawed constant SCALAR bless workaround.
-
-=item 2.07  (7 December 1996)
-
-Dumpxs output is now exactly the same as Dump.  It still doesn't
-honor C<Useqq> though.
-
-Regression tests test for identical output and C<eval>-ability.
-
-Bug in *GLOB{THING} output fixed.
-
-Other small enhancements.
-
-=item 2.06  (2 December 1996)
-
-Bugfix that was serious enough for new release--the bug cripples
-MLDBM.  Problem was "Attempt to modify readonly value..." failures
-that stemmed for a misguided SvPV_force() instead of a SvPV().)
-
-=item 2.05  (2 December 1996)
-
-Fixed the type mismatch that was causing Dumpxs test to fail
-on 64-bit platforms.
-
-GLOB elements are dumped now when C<Purity> is set (using the
-*GLOB{THING} syntax).
-
-The C<Freezer> option can be set to a method name to call
-before probing objects for dumping.  Some applications: objects with
-external data, can re-bless themselves into a transitional package;
-Objects the maintain ephemeral state (like open files) can put
-additional information in the object to facilitate persistence.
-
-The corresponding C<Toaster> option, if set, specifies
-the method call that will revive the frozen object.
-
-The C<Deepcopy> flag has been added to do just that.
-
-Dumper does more aggressive cataloging of SCALARs encountered
-within ARRAY/HASH structures. Thanks to Norman Gaywood 
-<norm@godel.une.edu.au> for reporting the problem.
-
-Objects that C<overload> the '""' operator are now handled
-properly by the C<Dump> method.
-
-Significant additions to the testsuite.
-
-More documentation.
-
-=item 2.04beta  (28 August 1996)
-
-Made dump of glob names respect C<Useqq> setting.
-
-[@$%] are now escaped now when in double quotes.
-
-=item 2.03beta  (26 August 1996)
-
-Fixed Dumpxs.  It was appending trailing nulls to globnames.
-(reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>).
-
-Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly
-resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes
-<curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>).
-
-New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix 
-introduced.  If the option is set, they are output only when
-absolutely essential.
-
-The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version
-yet).
-
-Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs.
-
-Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should
-make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although
-I haven't been able to test this).
-
-All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list
-context.
-
-
-=item 2.02beta  (13 April 1996)
-
-Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to 
-Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>).
-
-
-=item 2.01beta  (10 April 1996)
-
-Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted).
-
-
-=item 2.00beta  (9 April 1996)
-
-C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>.  The XS version
-is 4-5 times faster.
-
-C<require 5.002>.
-
-MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN 
-reality now).
-
-Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters.  Perl can be
-tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'.  The
-fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes
-around hash keys.
-
-Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals
-is busted.  His patch added.
-
-Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes.
-
-
-=item 1.23      (3 Dec 1995)
-
-MLDBM example added.
-
-Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes 
-in strings is missing. Added.
-
-Ian Phillipps <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose 
-precision without quotes.  Fixed.
-
-
-=item 1.21     (20 Nov 1995)
-
-Last stable version I can remember.
-
-=back
-
-=cut
+2.03b 1996-08-26 GSAR
+    - Fixed Dumpxs.  It was appending trailing nulls to globnames.
+      (reported by Randal Schwartz <merlyn@teleport.com>).
+    - Calling the C<Indent()> method on a dumper object now correctly
+      resets the internal separator (reported by Curt Tilmes
+      <curt@ltpmail.gsfc.nasa.gov>).
+    - New C<Terse> option to suppress the 'C<VARI<n> = >' prefix
+      introduced.  If the option is set, they are output only when
+      absolutely essential.
+    - The C<Useqq> flag is supported (but not by the XSUB version yet).
+    - Embedded nulls in keys are now handled properly by Dumpxs.
+    - Dumper.xs now use various integer types in perl.h (should
+      make it compile without noises on 64 bit platforms, although
+      I haven't been able to test this).
+    - All the dump methods now return a list of strings in a list context.
+
+
+2.02b 1996-04-13 GSAR
+    - Non portable sprintf usage in XS code fixed (thanks to
+      Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>).
+
+
+2.01b 1996-04-10 GSAR
+    - Minor bugfix (single digit numbers were always getting quoted).
+
+
+2.00b 1996-04-09 GSAR
+    - C<Dumpxs> is now the exact XSUB equivalent of C<Dump>.
+      The XS version is 4-5 times faster.
+    - C<require 5.002>.
+    - MLDBM example removed (as its own module, it has a separate CPAN
+      reality now).
+    - Fixed bugs in handling keys with wierd characters.  Perl can be
+      tripped up in its implicit quoting of the word before '=>'.  The
+      fix: C<Data::Dumper::Purity>, when set, always triggers quotes
+      around hash keys.
+    - Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> pointed out that handling octals
+      is busted.  His patch added.
+    - Dead code removed, other minor documentation fixes.
+
+
+1.23 1995-12-04 GSAR
+    - MLDBM example added.
+    - Several folks pointed out that quoting of ticks and backslashes
+      in strings is missing. Added.
+    - Ian Phillipps <ian@pipex.net> pointed out that numerics may lose
+      precision without quotes.  Fixed.
+
+
+1.21 1995-11-19 GSAR
+    - Last stable version I can remember.
+
diff --git a/t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat b/t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat
index 86012a4f3c..2641fb9ce0 100644
--- a/t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat
+++ b/t/porting/known_pod_issues.dat
@@ -369,7 +369,6 @@ XML::LibXML
 YAML
 YAML::Syck
 YAML::Tiny
-dist/data-dumper/changes	Verbatim line length including indents exceeds 78 by	1
 dist/data-dumper/dumper.pm	? Should you be using L<...> instead of	1
 dist/devel-ppport/parts/inc/ppphdoc	Unknown directive: =dontwarn	1
 dist/devel-ppport/parts/inc/ppphdoc	Unknown directive: =implementation	1