Integrate:

[ 22165]
Create perl584delta.pod
(Not that I'm really proposing to start work on 5.8.4 today)

[ 22650]
Updates from Stas Bekman, Brendan O'Dea and Hugo

[ 22655]
Tweaks from Hugo and Liz

[ 22677]
Improvements from Jarkko

[ 22684]
Integrate:
[ 22665]
AIX-4 with xlc does not like malloc wrap

[ 22666]
Test drives are fun. Implement ccversion for Itanium HP-UX 11.23

[ 22698]
Clarify AIX and win32's malloc wrapping

[ 22700]
The set uid perl is now called setuidperl. Not suidperl.
Which I discover is hardlinked from sperl by ./installperl
elsewhere. Helpfully confusing installperl script.

[ 22703]
More perldelta updates

[ 22710]
Subject:  spelling
Message-Id:  <200404161818.i3GIIILh391648@kosh.hut.fi>

[ 22718]
Revert 22700 (as part of changes suggested by Brendan O'Dea)

[ 22720]
Simpler suggstion to resolve the #!/usr/bin/suidperl vs. the set uid
binary must have fd script conundrum, as suggested by Brendan O'Dea
Plus restore the more helpful error message from 22694 and the gist
of the perl584delta changes from 22700

[ 22731]
Oink, oink, flap, flap!
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p4raw-integrated: from //depot/maint-5.8/perl@22735 'copy in'
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+=head1 NAME
+
+perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.4
+
+=head1 DESCRIPTION
+
+This document describes differences between the 5.8.3 release and
+the 5.8.4 release.
+
+=head1 Incompatible Changes
+
+Many minor bugs have been fixed. Scripts which happen to rely on previously
+erroneous behaviour will consider these fixes as incompatible changes :-)
+You are advised to perform sufficient acceptance testing on this release
+to satisfy yourself that this does not affect you, before putting this
+release into production.
+
+The diagnostic output of Carp has been changed slightly, to add a space after
+the comma between arguments. This makes it much easier for tools such as
+web browsers to wrap it, but might confuse any automatic tools which perform
+detailed parsing of Carp output.
+
+The internal dump output has been improved, so that non-printable characters
+such as newline and backspace are output in C<\x> notation, rather than
+octal. This might just confuse non-robust tools which parse the output of
+modules such as Devel::Peek.
+
+=head1 Core Enhancements
+
+=head2 Malloc wrapping
+
+Perl can now be built to detect attempts to assign pathologically large chunks
+of memory.  Previously such assignments would suffer from integer wrap-around
+during size calculations causing a misallocation, which would crash perl, and
+could theoretically be used for "stack smashing" attacks.  The wrapping
+defaults to enabled on platforms where we know it works (most AIX
+configurations, BSDi, Darwin, DEC OSF/1, FreeBSD, HP/UX, GNU Linux, OpenBSD,
+Solaris, VMS and most Win32 compilers) and defaults to disabled on other
+platforms.
+
+=head2 Unicode Character Database 4.0.1
+
+The copy of the Unicode Character Database included in Perl 5.8 has
+been updated to 4.0.1 from 4.0.0.
+
+=head2 suidperl less insecure
+
+Paul Szabo has analysed and patched C<suidperl> to remove existing known
+insecurities. Currently there are no known holes in C<suidperl>, but previous
+experience shows that we cannot be confident that these were the last. You may
+no longer invoke the set uid perl directly, so to preserve backwards
+compatibility with scripts that invoke #!/usr/bin/suidperl the only set uid
+binary is now C<sperl5.8.>I<n> (C<sperl5.8.4> for this release). C<suidperl>
+is installed as a hard link to C<perl>; both C<suidperl> and C<perl> will
+invoke C<sperl5.8.4> automatically the set uid binary, so this change should
+be completely transparent.
+
+For new projects the core perl team would strongly recommend that you use
+dedicated, single purpose security tools such as C<sudo> in preference to
+C<suidperl>.
+
+=head2 format
+
+In addition to bug fixes, C<format>'s features have been enhanced. See
+L<perlform>
+
+=head1 Modules and Pragmata
+
+The (mis)use of C</tmp> in core modules and documentation has been tidied up.
+Some modules available both within the perl core and independently from CPAN
+("dual-life modules") have not yet had these changes applied; the changes
+will be integrated into future stable perl releases as the modules are
+updated on CPAN.
+
+=head2 Updated modules
+
+=over 4
+
+=item Attribute::Handlers
+
+=item B
+
+=item Benchmark
+
+=item CGI
+
+=item Carp
+
+=item Cwd
+
+=item Exporter
+
+=item File::Find
+
+=item IO
+
+=item IPC::Open3
+
+=item Local::Maketext
+
+=item Math::BigFloat
+
+=item Math::BigInt
+
+=item Math::BigRat
+
+=item MIME::Base64
+
+=item ODBM_File
+
+=item POSIX
+
+=item Shell
+
+=item Socket
+
+There is experimental support for Linux abstract Unix domain sockets.
+
+=item Storable
+
+=item Switch
+
+Synced with its CPAN version 2.10
+
+=item Sys::Syslog
+
+C<syslog()> can now use numeric constants for facility names and priorities,
+in addition to strings.
+
+=item Term::ANSIColor
+
+=item Time::HiRes
+
+=item Unicode::UCD
+
+=item Win32
+
+Win32.pm/Win32.xs has moved from the libwin32 module to core Perl
+
+=item base
+
+=item open
+
+=item threads
+
+Detached threads are now also supported on Windows.
+
+=item utf8
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Performance Enhancements
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+Accelerated Unicode case mappings (C</i>, C<lc>, C<uc>, etc).
+
+=item *
+
+In place sort optimised (eg C<@a = sort @a>)
+
+=item *
+
+Unnecessary assignment optimised away in
+
+  my $s = undef;
+  my @a = ();
+  my %h = ();
+
+=item *
+
+Optimised C<map> in scalar context
+
+=back
+
+=head1 Utility Changes
+
+The Perl debugger (F<lib/perl5db.pl>) can now save all debugger commands for
+sourcing later, and can display the parent inheritance tree of a given class.
+
+=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
+
+The build process on both VMS and Windows has had several minor improvements
+made. On Windows Borland's C compiler can now compile perl with PerlIO and/or
+USE_LARGE_FILES enabled.
+
+C<perl.exe> on Windows now has a "Camel" logo icon. The use of a camel with
+the topic of Perl is a trademark of O'Reilly and Associates Inc., and is used
+with their permission (ie distribution of the source, compiling a Windows
+executable from it, and using that executable locally). Use of the supplied
+camel for anything other than a perl executable's icon is specifically not
+covered, and anyone wishing to redistribute perl binaries I<with> the icon
+should check directly with O'Reilly beforehand.
+
+Perl should build cleanly on Stratus VOS once more.
+
+=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
+
+More utf8 bugs fixed, notably in how C<chomp>, C<chop>, C<send>, and
+C<syswrite> and interact with utf8 data. Concatenation now works correctly
+when C<use bytes;> is in scope.
+
+Pragmata are now correctly propagated into (?{...}) constructions in regexps.
+Code such as
+
+   my $x = qr{ ... (??{ $x }) ... };
+
+will now (correctly) fail under use strict. (As the inner C<$x> is and
+has always referred to C<$::x>)
+
+The "const in void context" warning has been suppressed for a constant in an
+optimised-away boolean expression such as C<5 || print;>
+
+C<perl -i> could C<fchmod(stdin)> by mistake. This is serious if stdin is
+attached to a terminal, and perl is running as root. Now fixed.
+
+=head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
+
+C<Carp> and the internal diagnostic routines used by C<Devel::Peek> have been
+made clearer, as described in L</Incompatible Changes>
+
+=head1 Changed Internals
+
+Some bugs have been fixed in the hash internals. Restricted hashes and
+their place holders are now allocated and deleted at slightly different times,
+but this should not be visible to user code.
+
+=head1 Future Directions
+
+Code freeze for the next maintenance release (5.8.5) will be on 30th June
+2004, with release by mid July.
+
+=head1 Platform Specific Problems
+
+This release is known not to build on Windows 95.
+
+=head1 Reporting Bugs
+
+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 http://bugs.perl.org.  There may also be
+information at http://www.perl.org, 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
+to a tiny but sufficient test case.  Your bug report, along with the
+output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
+analysed by the Perl porting team.  You can browse and search
+the Perl 5 bugs at http://bugs.perl.org/
+
+=head1 SEE ALSO
+
+The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed.
+
+The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
+
+The F<README> file for general stuff.
+
+The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.
+
+=cut