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authorChris 'BinGOs' Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>2013-02-16 20:23:32 +0000
committerChris 'BinGOs' Williams <chris@bingosnet.co.uk>2013-02-16 20:23:32 +0000
commitb9214e6514bc71aaa2561a86cfca14d272f97815 (patch)
treed2e066307ab93d03365a67979f463d55f5e13f7f /pod
parent2f8114fb08248fa8661a45c7e473b59c7e633458 (diff)
downloadperl-b9214e6514bc71aaa2561a86cfca14d272f97815.tar.gz
Updates to perldelta
Diffstat (limited to 'pod')
-rw-r--r--pod/perldelta.pod23
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 3fc33ac85f..7fd5820bf5 100644
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -332,13 +332,13 @@ XXX Changes which significantly change existing files in F<pod/> go here.
However, any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in the L</Diagnostics>
section.
-=head3 L<XXX>
+=head3 L<perlsec>
=over 4
=item *
-XXX Description of the change here
+A syntax error was fixed in one of illustrative examples.
=back
@@ -384,7 +384,10 @@ XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here
=item *
-XXX Describe change here
+The warnings for \b{ and \B{ were added in the 5.17 series; they are a
+deprecation warning which should be turned off by that category. One
+should not have to turn off regular regexp warnings as well to get rid
+of these.
=back
@@ -439,6 +442,10 @@ INSTALL_BASE.
=item *
+Configure will honour the external C<MAILDOMAIN> environment variable, if set.
+
+=item *
+
Both C<META.yml> and C<META.json> files are now included in the distribution.
=back
@@ -457,7 +464,11 @@ that they represent may be covered elsewhere.
=item *
-XXX
+Enable perl core tests to pass when locale support is not available.
+
+use L<locale> - this will now die if $Config{d_setlocale} is not true.
+All tests that use L<locale> will skip if $Config{d_setlocale} is not true.
+This enables us to pass tests on Android which uses ICU instead of locales.
=back
@@ -546,6 +557,10 @@ files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>.
-DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT builds now free the global struct B<after>
they've finished using it.
+=item *
+
+A trailing '/' on a path in @INC will no longer have an additional '/' appended.
+
=back
=head1 Known Problems