pass through perl5131delta in prep of release

1 files changed, 28 insertions, 155 deletions

diff --git a/pod/perl5131delta.pod b/pod/perl5131delta.pod
index db47d6f17f..e6cc4c9ea7 100644
--- a/pod/perl5131delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5131delta.pod
@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-[ this is a template for a new perldelta file. Any text flagged as
-XXX needs to be processed before release. ]
-
 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.13.1
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
@@ -16,10 +13,6 @@ If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.10, first read
 L<perl5120delta>, which describes differences between 5.10 and
 5.12.
 
-=head1 Notice
-
-XXX Any important notices here
-
 =head1 Incompatible Changes
 
 =head2 "C<\cI<X>>"
@@ -63,10 +56,6 @@ See L<perlsyn/Return value> for details.
 
 =head1 Core Enhancements
 
-XXX New core language features go here. Summarise user-visible core language
-enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go
-here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section.
-
 =head2 Exception Handling Reliability
 
 Several changes have been made to the way C<die>, C<warn>, and C<$@>
@@ -117,22 +106,9 @@ along the way.  But a C<$SIG{__WARN__}> handler will now receive an
 object-based warning as an object, where previously it was passed the
 result of stringifying the object.
 
-=head1 New Platforms
-
-XXX List any platforms that this version of perl compiles on, that previous
-versions did not. These will either be enabled by new files in the F<hints/>
-directories, or new subdirectories and F<README> files at the top level of the
-source tree.
-
 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
 
-XXX All changes to installed files in F<cpan/>, F<dist/>, F<ext/> and F<lib/>
-go here.  If Module::CoreList is updated, generate an initial draft of the
-following sections using F<Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl>, which prints stub
-entries to STDOUT.  Results can be pasted in place of the '=head2' entries
-below.  A paragraph summary for important changes should then be added by hand.
-In an ideal world, dual-life modules would have a F<Changes> file that could be
-cribbed.
+=head2 Updated Modules
 
 =over
 
@@ -141,16 +117,6 @@ cribbed.
 The implementation of C<Errno> has been refactored to use about 55% less memory.
 There should be no user-visible changes.
 
-=back
-
-=head2 New Modules and Pragmata
-
-=head2 Pragmata Changes
-
-=head2 Updated Modules
-
-=over
-
 =item Perl 4 C<.pl> libraries
 
 These historical libraries have been minimally modified to avoid using
@@ -186,103 +152,43 @@ The removal of C<Shell> has been deferred until after 5.14, as the
 implementation of C<Shell> shipped with 5.12.0 did not correctly issue the
 warning that it was to be removed from core.
 
-=head1 Utility Changes
-
-XXX Changes to installed programs such as F<perlbug> and F<xsubpp> go
-here. Most of these are built within the directories F<utils> and F<x2p>.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item F<XXX>
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
 =head1 New Documentation
 
-XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<pod/> go here.
-
 =over 4
 
-=item L<XXX>
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Changes to Existing Documentation
-
-XXX Changes which significantly change existing files in F<pod/> go here.
-Any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in L</New or Changed Diagnostics>.
-
-
-=head1 Performance Enhancements
+=item perlepigraph
 
-XXX Changes which enhance performance without changing behaviour go here. There
-may well be none in a stable release.
+You can now find a list of the quotes issued with each release of perl in
+F<Porting/perlepigraph.pod>.
 
-=over 4
-
-=item *
+=item perlgpl
 
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
-
-XXX Changes to F<Configure>, F<installperl>, F<installman>, and analogous tools
-go here.
-
-=head2 Configuration improvements
-
-XXX
-
-=head2 Compilation improvements
-
-XXX
-
-=head2 Platform Specific Changes
-
-=over 4
-
-=item XXX-some-platform
-
-XXX
+L<perlgpl> has been updated to contain GPL version 1, as is included in the
+F<README> distributed with perl.
 
 =back
 
 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
 
-XXX Important bug fixes in the core language are summarised here.
-Bug fixes in files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarised in
-L</Modules and Pragmata>.
-
 =over 4
 
 =item *
 
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 New or Changed Diagnostics
+Naming a deprecated character in \N{...} will not leak memory.
 
-XXX New or changed warnings emitted by the core's C<C> code go here.
+=item *
 
-=over 4
+FETCH is no longer called needlessly on some tied variables.
 
-=item C<XXX>
+=item *
 
-XXX
+The trie runtime code should no longer allocate massive amounts of memory,
+fixing #74484.
 
 =back
 
 =head1 Changed Internals
 
-XXX Changes which affect the interface available to C<XS> code go here.
-
 =over 4
 
 =item *
@@ -313,45 +219,14 @@ less CPU intensive.
 
 =item *
 
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 New Tests
-
-XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<t/> go here. Changes to
-existing files in F<t/> aren't worth summarising, although the bugs that
-they represent may be.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item F<XXX>
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Known Problems
-
-XXX Descriptions of platform agnostic bugs we know we can't fix go here. Any
-tests that had to be C<TODO>ed for the release would be noted here, unless
-they were specific to a particular platform (see below).
-
-This is a list of some significant unfixed bugs, which are regressions
-from either 5.XXX.XXX or 5.XXX.XXX.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX
+A new function, Perl_magic_methcall has been added that wraps the setup needed
+to call a magic method like FETCH (the existing S_magic_methcall function has
+been renamed S_magic_methcall1).
 
 =back
 
 =head1 Deprecations
 
-XXX Add any new known deprecations here.
-
 The following items are now deprecated.
 
 =over 4
@@ -362,27 +237,25 @@ C<Perl_ptr_table_clear> is no longer part of Perl's public API. Calling it now
 generates a deprecation warning, and it will be removed in a future
 release.
 
-=item *
-
-XXX
-
 =back
 
 =head1 Platform Specific Notes
 
-XXX Any changes specific to a particular platform. VMS and Win32 are the usual
-stars here. It's probably best to group changes under the same section layout
-as the main perldelta
-
-=head1 Obituary
-
-XXX If any significant core contributor has died, we've added a short obituary
-here.
-
 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
-XXX The list of people to thank goes here.
+Perl 5.13.1 represents thirty days of development since Perl 5.13.0 and
+contains 15390 lines of changes across 289 files from 34 authors and
+committers.
+
+Thank you to the following for contributing to this release:
 
+Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Arkturuz, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry,
+Curtis Jewell, Dan Dascalescu, David Golden, David Mitchell, Father
+Chrysostomos, Gene Sullivan, gfx, Gisle Aas, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan,
+James Mastros, Jan Dubois, Jesse Vincent, Karl Williamson, Leon Brocard,
+Lubomir Rintel (GoodData), Nicholas Clark, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Rafael
+Garcia-Suarez, Rainer Tammer, Ricardo Signes, Richard Soderberg, Robin Barker,
+Ruslan Zakirov, Steffen Mueller, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Vincent Pit, Zefram
 
 =head1 Reporting Bugs