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diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index cfc2b5de89..8a464111b5 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -45,6 +45,18 @@ XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be: [ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ] +=head2 Data::Dumper's output may change + +Depending on the data structures dumped and the settings set for +Data::Dumper, the dumped output may have changed from previous +versions. + +If you have tests that depend on the exact output of Data::Dumper, +they may fail. + +To avoid this problem in your code, test against the data structure +from evaluating the dumped structure, instead of the dump itself. + =head1 Deprecations XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here. @@ -140,6 +152,11 @@ Regular expression objects are now dumped in a form closer to their original source, eg. C< qr/abc/i > is dumped as exactly that instead of C< qr/(?^i:abc)/ >. [perl #82948] +Dumping of hash keys is now more consistent between the XS and perl +implementations of L<Data::Dumper>, including how the C<quotekeys> +option behaves. This may make tests that depend on the exact output +of Data::Dumper to fail. [perl #120384] + =item * L<File::Fetch> has been upgraded from version 0.44 to 0.46. |