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@@ -4628,6 +4628,7 @@ pod/perl5231delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.23.1 pod/perl5232delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.23.2 pod/perl5233delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.23.3 pod/perl5234delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.23.4 +pod/perl5235delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.23.5 pod/perl561delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.6.1 pod/perl56delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.6 pod/perl581delta.pod Perl changes in version 5.8.1 diff --git a/Makefile.SH b/Makefile.SH index 3e3892c2f1..caba0367ed 100755 --- a/Makefile.SH +++ b/Makefile.SH @@ -504,7 +504,7 @@ mini_obj = $(minindt_obj) $(MINIDTRACE_O) ndt_obj = $(obj0) $(obj1) $(obj2) $(obj3) $(ARCHOBJS) obj = $(ndt_obj) $(DTRACE_O) -perltoc_pod_prereqs = extra.pods pod/perl5235delta.pod pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perluniprops.pod +perltoc_pod_prereqs = extra.pods pod/perl5236delta.pod pod/perlapi.pod pod/perlintern.pod pod/perlmodlib.pod pod/perluniprops.pod generated_pods = pod/perltoc.pod $(perltoc_pod_prereqs) generated_headers = uudmap.h bitcount.h mg_data.h @@ -1064,9 +1064,9 @@ pod/perlintern.pod: $(MINIPERL_EXE) autodoc.pl embed.fnc pod/perlmodlib.pod: $(MINIPERL_EXE) pod/perlmodlib.PL MANIFEST $(MINIPERL) pod/perlmodlib.PL -q -pod/perl5235delta.pod: pod/perldelta.pod - $(RMS) pod/perl5235delta.pod - $(LNS) perldelta.pod pod/perl5235delta.pod +pod/perl5236delta.pod: pod/perldelta.pod + $(RMS) pod/perl5236delta.pod + $(LNS) perldelta.pod pod/perl5236delta.pod extra.pods: $(MINIPERL_EXE) -@test ! -f extra.pods || rm -f `cat extra.pods` diff --git a/pod/.gitignore b/pod/.gitignore index 4f6d9cea13..4dba2d2beb 100644 --- a/pod/.gitignore +++ b/pod/.gitignore @@ -53,7 +53,7 @@ /roffitall # generated -/perl5235delta.pod +/perl5236delta.pod /perlapi.pod /perlintern.pod *.html diff --git a/pod/perl.pod b/pod/perl.pod index 7dc9662cf8..4a5d74d74e 100644 --- a/pod/perl.pod +++ b/pod/perl.pod @@ -180,6 +180,7 @@ aux c2ph h2ph h2xs perlbug pl2pm pod2html pod2man splain xsubpp perlhist Perl history records perldelta Perl changes since previous version + perl5235delta Perl changes in version 5.23.5 perl5234delta Perl changes in version 5.23.4 perl5233delta Perl changes in version 5.23.3 perl5232delta Perl changes in version 5.23.2 diff --git a/pod/perl5235delta.pod b/pod/perl5235delta.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c9a3e55fcf --- /dev/null +++ b/pod/perl5235delta.pod @@ -0,0 +1,420 @@ +=encoding utf8 + +=head1 NAME + +perl5235delta - what is new for perl v5.23.5 + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +This document describes differences between the 5.23.4 release and the 5.23.5 +release. + +If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.23.3, first read +L<perl5234delta>, which describes differences between 5.23.3 and 5.23.4. + +=head1 Performance Enhancements + +=over 4 + +=item * + +Faster addition, subtraction and multiplication. + +Since 5.8.0, arithmetic became slower due to the need to support +64-bit integers. To deal with 64-bit integers, a lot more corner +cases need to be checked, which adds time. We now detect common +cases where there is no need to check for those corner cases, +and special-case them. + +=item * + +Faster preincrement, predecrement, postincrement, postdecrement. + +By internally splitting the functions which handled multiple +cases into different functions. + +=back + +=head1 Modules and Pragmata + +=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata + +=over 4 + +=item * + +L<arybase> has been upgraded from version 0.10 to 0.11. + +=item * + +L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.61. + +=item * + +L<base> has been upgraded from version 2.22 to 2.22_01. + +Better handling of attempts to load non-existent modules. +Improvements to fields.pm documentation. L<base> now requires v5.8.0. + +=item * + +L<Carp> has been upgraded from version 1.37 to 1.38. + +Improvements when working with older perls. + +=item * + +L<Config::Perl::V> has been upgraded from version 0.24 to 0.25. + +=item * + +L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.23. + +=item * + +L<Dumpvalue> has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.18. + +=item * + +L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.35 to 1.36. + +=item * + +L<fields> has been upgraded from version 2.17 to 2.22_01. + +=item * + +L<File::Find> has been upgraded from version 1.31 to 1.32. + +Handles empty directory lists. + +=item * + +L<File::Spec> has been upgraded from version 3.58 to 3.59. + +=item * + +L<Getopt::Long> has been upgraded from version 2.47 to 2.48. + +Fixes an issue with C<< gnu_compat >> + +=item * + +L<Hash::Util::FieldHash> has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.18. + +=item * + +L<IPC::Open3> has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20. + +Include the error message on C<< exec() >> failure. + +=item * + +L<Math::BigInt> has been upgraded from version 1.999704 to 1.999710. + +=item * + +L<Math::BigInt::FastCalc> has been upgraded from version 0.34 to 0.37. + +=item * + +L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20151020 to 5.20151120. + +=item * + +L<Module::Metadata> has been upgraded from version 1.000029 to 1.000030. + +Temp dirs cleaned up during tests. More accurately mark tests as TODO, so as to have a quieter and less confusing test run without passing TODO tests. + +=item * + +L<PerlIO::encoding> has been upgraded from version 0.22 to 0.23. + +=item * + +L<PerlIO::mmap> has been upgraded from version 0.014 to 0.015. + +=item * + +L<PerlIO::scalar> has been upgraded from version 0.23 to 0.24. + +=item * + +L<PerlIO::via> has been upgraded from version 0.15 to 0.16. + +=item * + +L<Pod::Simple> has been upgraded from version 3.30 to 3.32. + +Switched debugging output from C<< STDOUT >> to C<< STDERR >>. + +Added C<< errata_seen() >> to make POD errors easily accessible. + +Simplified the detection of case-insensitivity in Pod::Simple::Search. + +Fixed C<< Use of uninitialized value $1 in lc >> warning in +Pod::Simple::Search. + +If C<< @INC >> includes the current directory symbol, C<.>, the +C<< survey() >> method of C<< Pod::Simple::Search >> no longer excludes +it from its list of directories to search. Instead, The C<< survey() >> and +C<< find() >> methods now both exclude duplicate directories from C<< @INC >> +(RT #102344). + +Moved source repository and updated links to new perl-pod GitHub +organization: L<https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple>. + +Improved repository links and added GitHub issue tracking link to +the distribution metadata. + +Switched from C<< File::Spec >>'s C<< catdir >> to C<< catfile >> +for path names, to fix failures on VMS. Also now use Unix path semantics +where they're not required to be platform-specific. (RT #105511). + +Improved the example use of the C<< html_encode_chars() >> method in +the C<< Pod::Simple::XHTML >> documentation. + +=item * + +L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 1.58 to 1.59. + +=item * + +L<Thread::Queue> has been upgraded from version 3.06 to 3.07. + +=item * + +L<threads> has been upgraded from version 2.03 to 2.04. + +=item * + +L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.48 to 1.49. + +=item * + +L<Tie::Scalar> has been upgraded from version 1.03 to 1.04. + +=item * + +L<Time::HiRes> has been upgraded from version 1.9727_02 to 1.9728. + +=item * + +L<Time::Piece> has been upgraded from version 1.30 to 1.31. + +=item * + +L<Unicode::Normalize> has been upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.23. + +=item * + +L<XSLoader> has been upgraded from version 0.20 to 0.21. + +=back + +=head1 Diagnostics + +The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output, +including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of +diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>. + +=head2 New Diagnostics + +=head3 New Errors + +=over 4 + +=item * + +L<<< Sequence (?... not terminated in regex; marked by S<<-- HERE> in mE<sol>%sE<sol>|perldiag/"Sequence (?... not terminated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in mE<sol>%sE<sol>" >>> + +=back + +=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics + +=over 4 + +=item * + +When running out of memory during an attempt the increase the stack +size, previously, perl would die using the cryptic message +C<< panic: av_extend_guts() negative count (-9223372036854775681) >>. +This has been fixed to show the prettier message: +L<< Out of memory during stack extend|perldiag/"Out of memory during %s extend" >> + +=back + +=head1 Configuration and Compilation + +=over 4 + +=item * + +C<Configure> now acts as if the C<-O> option is always passed, allowing command +line options to override saved configuration. This should eliminate confusion +when command line options are ignored for no obvious reason. C<-O> is now +permitted, but ignored. + +=item * + +Some filesystem stat symbols which were not used by the Perl core +were removed in an earlier commit. However, since these symbols +turned out to be used by at least one CPAN module, these symbols +have been restored. + +=item * + +C<< PPPort.so/PPPort.dll >> no longer get installed, as they are +not used by C<< PPPort.pm >>, only by its test files. + +=item * + +It is now possible to specify which compilation date to show on +C<< perl -V >> output, by setting the macro C<< PERL_BUILD_DATE >>. + +=back + +=head1 Platform Support + +=head2 Platform-Specific Notes + +=over 4 + +=item Win32 + +Win32 does now a parallel build with C++. + +=item Tru64 + +Workaround where Tru64 balks when prototypes are listed as +C<< PERL_STATIC_INLINE >>, but where the test is build with +C<< -DPERL_NO_INLINE_FUNCTIONS >>. + +=back + +=head1 Internal Changes + +=over 4 + +=item * + +C<< sv_ref() >> is now part of the API. + +=back + +=head1 Selected Bug Fixes + +=over 4 + +=item * + +C<\b{sb}> works much better. In Perl v5.22.0, this new construct didn't +seem to give the expected results, yet passed all the tests in the +extensive suite furnished by Unicode. It turns out that it was because +these were short input strings, and the failures had to do with longer +inputs. This was fixed in Perl 5.23.4, but the improvement was not +noticed until after that was released, so is included here now. + +=item * + +Certain syntax errors in +L<perlrecharclass/Extended Bracketed Character Classes> caused panics +instead of the proper error message. This has now been fixed. [perl +#126481] + +=item * + +An earlier commit added a message when a quantifier in a regular +expression was useless, but then caused the parser to skip it; +this caused the surplus quantifier to be silently ignored, instead +of throwing an error. This is now fixed. [perl #126253] + +=item * + +The switch to building non-XS modules last in win32/makefile.mk (introduced +by design as part of the changes to enable parallel building) caused the +build of POSIX to break due to problems with the version module. This +is now fixed. + +=item * + +Improved parsing of hex float constants. + +=item * + +Fixed an issue with C<< pack >> where C<< pack "H" >> (and C<< pack "h" >>) +could read past the source when given a non-utf8 source, and a utf8 target. +[perl #126325] + +=item * + +Fixed several cases where perl would abort due to a segmentation fault, +or a C-level assert. [perl #126615], [perl #126602], [perl #126193]. + +=back + +=head1 Acknowledgements + +Perl 5.23.5 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.23.4 +and contains approximately 12,000 lines of changes across 290 files from 23 +authors. + +Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were +approximately 6,400 lines of changes to 180 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. + +Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community +of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the +improvements that became Perl 5.23.5: + +Aaron Crane, Abigail, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari +Mannsåker, Daniel Dragan, David Mitchell, Dr.Ruud, H.Merijn Brand, Ivan +Pozdeev, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jerry D. Hedden, Karen Etheridge, +Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Mohammed El-Afifi, Niko Tyni, Peter Rabbitson, +Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Steve Hay, Tony Cook. + +The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated +from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of +the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug +tracker. + +Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules +included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for +helping Perl to flourish. + +For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see +the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution. + +=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 +L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information at +L<http://www.perl.org/> , the Perl Home Page. + +If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L<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. + +If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it +inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send it +to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription +unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who will be +able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help +co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all +platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for +security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on +CPAN. + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view 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 diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 80ee973aea..c856a43792 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -2,387 +2,383 @@ =head1 NAME -perldelta - what is new for perl v5.23.5 +[ 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 v5.23.6 =head1 DESCRIPTION -This document describes differences between the 5.23.4 release and the 5.23.5 +This document describes differences between the 5.23.5 release and the 5.23.6 release. -If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.23.3, first read -L<perl5234delta>, which describes differences between 5.23.3 and 5.23.4. +If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.23.4, first read +L<perl5235delta>, which describes differences between 5.23.4 and 5.23.5. -=head1 Performance Enhancements +=head1 Notice -=over 4 +XXX Any important notices here -=item * +=head1 Core Enhancements -Faster addition, subtraction and multiplication. +XXX New core language features go here. Summarize user-visible core language +enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go +here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section. -Since 5.8.0, arithmetic became slower due to the need to support -64-bit integers. To deal with 64-bit integers, a lot more corner -cases need to be checked, which adds time. We now detect common -cases where there is no need to check for those corner cases, -and special-case them. +[ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ] -=item * +=head1 Security -Faster preincrement, predecrement, postincrement, postdecrement. +XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security +vulnerabilities closed should be noted here rather than in the +L</Selected Bug Fixes> section. -By internally splitting the functions which handled multiple -cases into different functions. +[ List each security issue as a =head2 entry ] -=back +=head1 Incompatible Changes -=head1 Modules and Pragmata +XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: -=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata + There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX + If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a + report. See L</Reporting Bugs> below. -=over 4 +[ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ] -=item * +=head1 Deprecations -L<arybase> has been upgraded from version 0.10 to 0.11. +XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here. -=item * +=head2 Module removals -L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.61. +XXX Remove this section if inapplicable. -=item * +The following modules will be removed from the core distribution in a +future release, and will at that time need to be installed from CPAN. +Distributions on CPAN which require these modules will need to list them as +prerequisites. -L<base> has been upgraded from version 2.22 to 2.22_01. +The core versions of these modules will now issue C<"deprecated">-category +warnings to alert you to this fact. To silence these deprecation warnings, +install the modules in question from CPAN. -Better handling of attempts to load non-existent modules. -Improvements to fields.pm documentation. L<base> now requires v5.8.0. +Note that these are (with rare exceptions) fine modules that you are encouraged +to continue to use. Their disinclusion from core primarily hinges on their +necessity to bootstrapping a fully functional, CPAN-capable Perl installation, +not usually on concerns over their design. -=item * +=over -L<Carp> has been upgraded from version 1.37 to 1.38. +=item XXX -Improvements when working with older perls. +XXX Note that deprecated modules should be listed here even if they are listed +as an updated module in the L</Modules and Pragmata> section. -=item * +=back -L<Config::Perl::V> has been upgraded from version 0.24 to 0.25. +[ List each other deprecation as a =head2 entry ] -=item * +=head1 Performance Enhancements -L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.23. +XXX Changes which enhance performance without changing behaviour go here. +There may well be none in a stable release. -=item * +[ List each enhancement as a =item entry ] -L<Dumpvalue> has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.18. +=over 4 =item * -L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.35 to 1.36. - -=item * +XXX -L<fields> has been upgraded from version 2.17 to 2.22_01. +=back -=item * +=head1 Modules and Pragmata -L<File::Find> has been upgraded from version 1.31 to 1.32. +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>. 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. -Handles empty directory lists. +[ Within each section, list entries as a =item entry ] -=item * +=head2 New Modules and Pragmata -L<File::Spec> has been upgraded from version 3.58 to 3.59. +=over 4 =item * -L<Getopt::Long> has been upgraded from version 2.47 to 2.48. +XXX -Fixes an issue with C<< gnu_compat >> +=back -=item * +=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata -L<Hash::Util::FieldHash> has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.18. +=over 4 =item * -L<IPC::Open3> has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20. +L<XXX> has been upgraded from version A.xx to B.yy. -Include the error message on C<< exec() >> failure. +=back -=item * +=head2 Removed Modules and Pragmata -L<Math::BigInt> has been upgraded from version 1.999704 to 1.999710. +=over 4 =item * -L<Math::BigInt::FastCalc> has been upgraded from version 0.34 to 0.37. +XXX -=item * +=back -L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20151020 to 5.20151120. +=head1 Documentation -=item * +XXX Changes to files in F<pod/> go here. Consider grouping entries by +file and be sure to link to the appropriate page, e.g. L<perlfunc>. -L<Module::Metadata> has been upgraded from version 1.000029 to 1.000030. +=head2 New Documentation -Temp dirs cleaned up during tests. More accurately mark tests as TODO, so as to have a quieter and less confusing test run without passing TODO tests. +XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<pod/> go here. -=item * +=head3 L<XXX> -L<PerlIO::encoding> has been upgraded from version 0.22 to 0.23. +XXX Description of the purpose of the new file here -=item * +=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation -L<PerlIO::mmap> has been upgraded from version 0.014 to 0.015. +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. -=item * +=head3 L<XXX> -L<PerlIO::scalar> has been upgraded from version 0.23 to 0.24. +=over 4 =item * -L<PerlIO::via> has been upgraded from version 0.15 to 0.16. +XXX Description of the change here -=item * +=back -L<Pod::Simple> has been upgraded from version 3.30 to 3.32. +=head1 Diagnostics -Switched debugging output from C<< STDOUT >> to C<< STDERR >>. +The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output, +including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of +diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>. -Added C<< errata_seen() >> to make POD errors easily accessible. +XXX New or changed warnings emitted by the core's C<C> code go here. Also +include any changes in L<perldiag> that reconcile it to the C<C> code. -Simplified the detection of case-insensitivity in Pod::Simple::Search. +=head2 New Diagnostics -Fixed C<< Use of uninitialized value $1 in lc >> warning in -Pod::Simple::Search. +XXX Newly added diagnostic messages go under here, separated into New Errors +and New Warnings -If C<< @INC >> includes the current directory symbol, C<.>, the -C<< survey() >> method of C<< Pod::Simple::Search >> no longer excludes -it from its list of directories to search. Instead, The C<< survey() >> and -C<< find() >> methods now both exclude duplicate directories from C<< @INC >> -(RT #102344). +=head3 New Errors -Moved source repository and updated links to new perl-pod GitHub -organization: L<https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple>. +=over 4 -Improved repository links and added GitHub issue tracking link to -the distribution metadata. +=item * -Switched from C<< File::Spec >>'s C<< catdir >> to C<< catfile >> -for path names, to fix failures on VMS. Also now use Unix path semantics -where they're not required to be platform-specific. (RT #105511). +XXX L<message|perldiag/"message"> -Improved the example use of the C<< html_encode_chars() >> method in -the C<< Pod::Simple::XHTML >> documentation. +=back -=item * +=head3 New Warnings -L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 1.58 to 1.59. +=over 4 =item * -L<Thread::Queue> has been upgraded from version 3.06 to 3.07. +XXX L<message|perldiag/"message"> -=item * +=back -L<threads> has been upgraded from version 2.03 to 2.04. +=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics -=item * +XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here -L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.48 to 1.49. +=over 4 =item * -L<Tie::Scalar> has been upgraded from version 1.03 to 1.04. +XXX Describe change here -=item * +=back -L<Time::HiRes> has been upgraded from version 1.9727_02 to 1.9728. +=head1 Utility Changes -=item * +XXX Changes to installed programs such as F<perlbug> and F<xsubpp> go here. +Most of these are built within the directory F<utils>. -L<Time::Piece> has been upgraded from version 1.30 to 1.31. +[ List utility changes as a =head2 entry for each utility and =item +entries for each change +Use L<XXX> with program names to get proper documentation linking. ] -=item * +=head2 L<XXX> -L<Unicode::Normalize> has been upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.23. +=over 4 =item * -L<XSLoader> has been upgraded from version 0.20 to 0.21. +XXX =back -=head1 Diagnostics - -The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output, -including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of -diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>. +=head1 Configuration and Compilation -=head2 New Diagnostics +XXX Changes to F<Configure>, F<installperl>, F<installman>, and analogous tools +go here. Any other changes to the Perl build process should be listed here. +However, any platform-specific changes should be listed in the +L</Platform Support> section, instead. -=head3 New Errors +[ List changes as a =item entry ]. =over 4 =item * -L<<< Sequence (?... not terminated in regex; marked by S<<-- HERE> in mE<sol>%sE<sol>|perldiag/"Sequence (?... not terminated in regex; marked by <-- HERE in mE<sol>%sE<sol>" >>> +XXX =back -=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics +=head1 Testing + +XXX Any significant changes to the testing of a freshly built perl should be +listed here. Changes which create B<new> files in F<t/> go here as do any +large changes to the testing harness (e.g. when parallel testing was added). +Changes to existing files in F<t/> aren't worth summarizing, although the bugs +that they represent may be covered elsewhere. + +[ List each test improvement as a =item entry ] =over 4 =item * -When running out of memory during an attempt the increase the stack -size, previously, perl would die using the cryptic message -C<< panic: av_extend_guts() negative count (-9223372036854775681) >>. -This has been fixed to show the prettier message: -L<< Out of memory during stack extend|perldiag/"Out of memory during %s extend" >> +XXX =back -=head1 Configuration and Compilation +=head1 Platform Support + +XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below. + +[ Within the sections, list each platform as a =item entry with specific +changes as paragraphs below it. ] + +=head2 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. =over 4 -=item * +=item XXX-some-platform -C<Configure> now acts as if the C<-O> option is always passed, allowing command -line options to override saved configuration. This should eliminate confusion -when command line options are ignored for no obvious reason. C<-O> is now -permitted, but ignored. +XXX -=item * +=back -Some filesystem stat symbols which were not used by the Perl core -were removed in an earlier commit. However, since these symbols -turned out to be used by at least one CPAN module, these symbols -have been restored. +=head2 Discontinued Platforms -=item * +XXX List any platforms that this version of perl no longer compiles on. -C<< PPPort.so/PPPort.dll >> no longer get installed, as they are -not used by C<< PPPort.pm >>, only by its test files. +=over 4 -=item * +=item XXX-some-platform -It is now possible to specify which compilation date to show on -C<< perl -V >> output, by setting the macro C<< PERL_BUILD_DATE >>. +XXX =back -=head1 Platform Support - =head2 Platform-Specific Notes -=over 4 - -=item Win32 +XXX List any changes for specific platforms. This could include configuration +and compilation changes or changes in portability/compatibility. However, +changes within modules for platforms should generally be listed in the +L</Modules and Pragmata> section. -Win32 does now a parallel build with C++. +=over 4 -=item Tru64 +=item XXX-some-platform -Workaround where Tru64 balks when prototypes are listed as -C<< PERL_STATIC_INLINE >>, but where the test is build with -C<< -DPERL_NO_INLINE_FUNCTIONS >>. +XXX =back =head1 Internal Changes +XXX Changes which affect the interface available to C<XS> code go here. Other +significant internal changes for future core maintainers should be noted as +well. + +[ List each change as a =item entry ] + =over 4 =item * -C<< sv_ref() >> is now part of the API. +XXX =back =head1 Selected Bug Fixes -=over 4 +XXX Important bug fixes in the core language are summarized here. Bug fixes in +files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>. -=item * +[ List each fix as a =item entry ] -C<\b{sb}> works much better. In Perl v5.22.0, this new construct didn't -seem to give the expected results, yet passed all the tests in the -extensive suite furnished by Unicode. It turns out that it was because -these were short input strings, and the failures had to do with longer -inputs. This was fixed in Perl 5.23.4, but the improvement was not -noticed until after that was released, so is included here now. +=over 4 =item * -Certain syntax errors in -L<perlrecharclass/Extended Bracketed Character Classes> caused panics -instead of the proper error message. This has now been fixed. [perl -#126481] +XXX -=item * - -An earlier commit added a message when a quantifier in a regular -expression was useless, but then caused the parser to skip it; -this caused the surplus quantifier to be silently ignored, instead -of throwing an error. This is now fixed. [perl #126253] +=back -=item * +=head1 Known Problems -The switch to building non-XS modules last in win32/makefile.mk (introduced -by design as part of the changes to enable parallel building) caused the -build of POSIX to break due to problems with the version module. This -is now fixed. +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. Unfixed +platform specific bugs also go here. -=item * +[ List each fix as a =item entry ] -Improved parsing of hex float constants. +=over 4 =item * -Fixed an issue with C<< pack >> where C<< pack "H" >> (and C<< pack "h" >>) -could read past the source when given a non-utf8 source, and a utf8 target. -[perl #126325] +XXX -=item * +=back -Fixed several cases where perl would abort due to a segmentation fault, -or a C-level assert. [perl #126615], [perl #126602], [perl #126193]. +=head1 Errata From Previous Releases -=back +=over 4 -=head1 Acknowledgements +=item * -Perl 5.23.5 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.23.4 -and contains approximately 12,000 lines of changes across 290 files from 23 -authors. +XXX Add anything here that we forgot to add, or were mistaken about, in +the perldelta of a previous release. -Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were -approximately 6,400 lines of changes to 180 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. +=back -Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community -of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the -improvements that became Perl 5.23.5: +=head1 Obituary -Aaron Crane, Abigail, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari -Mannsåker, Daniel Dragan, David Mitchell, Dr.Ruud, H.Merijn Brand, Ivan -Pozdeev, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jerry D. Hedden, Karen Etheridge, -Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Mohammed El-Afifi, Niko Tyni, Peter Rabbitson, -Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Steve Hay, Tony Cook. +XXX If any significant core contributor has died, we've added a short obituary +here. -The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated -from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of -the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug -tracker. +=head1 Acknowledgements -Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules -included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for -helping Perl to flourish. +XXX Generate this with: -For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see -the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution. + perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.23.5..HEAD =head1 Reporting Bugs diff --git a/vms/descrip_mms.template b/vms/descrip_mms.template index b59037c19e..944d2020a7 100644 --- a/vms/descrip_mms.template +++ b/vms/descrip_mms.template @@ -307,7 +307,7 @@ utils : $(utils1) $(utils2) $(utils3) $(utils4) $(utils5) extra.pods : miniperl @ @extra_pods.com -PERLDELTA_CURRENT = [.pod]perl5235delta.pod +PERLDELTA_CURRENT = [.pod]perl5236delta.pod $(PERLDELTA_CURRENT) : [.pod]perldelta.pod Copy/NoConfirm/Log $(MMS$SOURCE) $(PERLDELTA_CURRENT) diff --git a/win32/GNUmakefile b/win32/GNUmakefile index 120ead7584..a5b780772c 100644 --- a/win32/GNUmakefile +++ b/win32/GNUmakefile @@ -1127,7 +1127,7 @@ utils: $(PERLEXE) ..\utils\Makefile copy ..\README.tw ..\pod\perltw.pod copy ..\README.vos ..\pod\perlvos.pod copy ..\README.win32 ..\pod\perlwin32.pod - copy ..\pod\perldelta.pod ..\pod\perl5235delta.pod + copy ..\pod\perldelta.pod ..\pod\perl5236delta.pod $(PERLEXE) $(PL2BAT) $(UTILS) $(MINIPERL) -I..\lib ..\autodoc.pl .. $(MINIPERL) -I..\lib ..\pod\perlmodlib.PL -q .. @@ -1222,7 +1222,7 @@ distclean: realclean -if exist $(LIBDIR)\Win32API rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\Win32API -if exist $(LIBDIR)\XS rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\XS -cd $(PODDIR) && del /f *.html *.bat roffitall \ - perl5235delta.pod perlaix.pod perlamiga.pod perlandroid.pod \ + perl5236delta.pod perlaix.pod perlamiga.pod perlandroid.pod \ perlapi.pod perlbs2000.pod perlce.pod perlcn.pod perlcygwin.pod \ perldos.pod perlfreebsd.pod perlhaiku.pod perlhpux.pod \ perlhurd.pod perlintern.pod perlirix.pod perljp.pod perlko.pod \ diff --git a/win32/Makefile b/win32/Makefile index 19142ba477..5be0c703c7 100644 --- a/win32/Makefile +++ b/win32/Makefile @@ -1216,7 +1216,7 @@ utils: $(PERLEXE) ..\utils\Makefile copy ..\README.tw ..\pod\perltw.pod copy ..\README.vos ..\pod\perlvos.pod copy ..\README.win32 ..\pod\perlwin32.pod - copy ..\pod\perldelta.pod ..\pod\perl5235delta.pod + copy ..\pod\perldelta.pod ..\pod\perl5236delta.pod cd ..\win32 $(PERLEXE) $(PL2BAT) $(UTILS) $(MINIPERL) -I..\lib ..\autodoc.pl .. @@ -1313,7 +1313,7 @@ distclean: realclean -if exist $(LIBDIR)\Win32API rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\Win32API -if exist $(LIBDIR)\XS rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\XS -cd $(PODDIR) && del /f *.html *.bat roffitall \ - perl5235delta.pod perlaix.pod perlamiga.pod perlandroid.pod \ + perl5236delta.pod perlaix.pod perlamiga.pod perlandroid.pod \ perlapi.pod perlbs2000.pod perlce.pod perlcn.pod perlcygwin.pod \ perldos.pod perlfreebsd.pod perlhaiku.pod perlhpux.pod \ perlhurd.pod perlintern.pod perlirix.pod perljp.pod perlko.pod \ diff --git a/win32/makefile.mk b/win32/makefile.mk index dece68af18..0b6f8e1ffb 100644 --- a/win32/makefile.mk +++ b/win32/makefile.mk @@ -1539,7 +1539,7 @@ utils: $(HAVEMINIPERL) ..\utils\Makefile copy ..\README.tw ..\pod\perltw.pod copy ..\README.vos ..\pod\perlvos.pod copy ..\README.win32 ..\pod\perlwin32.pod - copy ..\pod\perldelta.pod ..\pod\perl5235delta.pod + copy ..\pod\perldelta.pod ..\pod\perl5236delta.pod $(MINIPERL) -I..\lib $(PL2BAT) $(UTILS) $(MINIPERL) -I..\lib ..\autodoc.pl .. $(MINIPERL) -I..\lib ..\pod\perlmodlib.PL -q .. @@ -1635,7 +1635,7 @@ distclean: realclean -if exist $(LIBDIR)\Win32API rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\Win32API -if exist $(LIBDIR)\XS rmdir /s /q $(LIBDIR)\XS -cd $(PODDIR) && del /f *.html *.bat roffitall \ - perl5235delta.pod perlaix.pod perlamiga.pod perlandroid.pod \ + perl5236delta.pod perlaix.pod perlamiga.pod perlandroid.pod \ perlapi.pod perlbs2000.pod perlce.pod perlcn.pod perlcygwin.pod \ perldos.pod perlfreebsd.pod perlhaiku.pod perlhpux.pod \ perlhurd.pod perlintern.pod perlirix.pod perljp.pod perlko.pod \ diff --git a/win32/pod.mak b/win32/pod.mak index 8079195e0c..3ef83bdb9d 100644 --- a/win32/pod.mak +++ b/win32/pod.mak @@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ POD = perl.pod \ perl5233delta.pod \ perl5234delta.pod \ perl5235delta.pod \ + perl5236delta.pod \ perl561delta.pod \ perl56delta.pod \ perl581delta.pod \ @@ -188,6 +189,7 @@ MAN = perl.man \ perl5233delta.man \ perl5234delta.man \ perl5235delta.man \ + perl5236delta.man \ perl561delta.man \ perl56delta.man \ perl581delta.man \ @@ -329,6 +331,7 @@ HTML = perl.html \ perl5233delta.html \ perl5234delta.html \ perl5235delta.html \ + perl5236delta.html \ perl561delta.html \ perl56delta.html \ perl581delta.html \ @@ -470,6 +473,7 @@ TEX = perl.tex \ perl5233delta.tex \ perl5234delta.tex \ perl5235delta.tex \ + perl5236delta.tex \ perl561delta.tex \ perl56delta.tex \ perl581delta.tex \ |