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@@ -8,6 +8,281 @@ or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version releases.) ---------------- +Version 5.003_12 +---------------- + +This patch is huge. A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially +CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated +docs... it's a long list. And speaking of lists, here's a list of +the more significant changes in 5.003_12: + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c + t/op/delete.t + + Title: "Autovivify scalars" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Allow any word, including keyword, as label" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: toke.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c + + Title: "Fix nested closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on auto-vivification" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c + + Title: "Fix paren matching during backtracking" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: regexec.c + + Title: "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c + + Title: "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix local($pack::{foo})" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c + + Title: "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation" + From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Msg-ID: <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100 + Files: doio.c + + Title: "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Re: Bug in formline " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: hv.c + + Title: "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h + + Title: "Support SvREADONLY on arrays" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: av.c + + Title: "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + PORTABILITY + + Title: "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: perlio.c + + Title: "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm + lib/Test/Harness.pm + + Title: "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym + old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH + + Title: "Look for gettimeofday() in Configure" + From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM> + Msg-ID: <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM> + Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100 + Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c + + Title: "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: Configure + + Title: "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg + eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm + makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod + pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL + pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL + utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL x2p/a2py.c + x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL + + Title: "LynxOS support" + From: seibert@Lynx.COM (Greg Seibert) + Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com> + Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST + Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t + + Title: "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: hints/linux.sh + + Title: "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet" + From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) + Msg-ID: <memo.453720@cix.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 18:34 GMT0 + Files: hints/svr4.sh + + Title: "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> + Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500 + Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh + + Title: "OS/2 updates from Ilya" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Files: README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h + + Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_11" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> + Msg-ID: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/* + + TESTING + + Title: "recurse recurse recurse ..." + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi> + Msg-ID: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET) + Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t + + UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Add CPAN and Net::FTP" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm + lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm + pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Please update Text::Wrap and Text::Tabs" + From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com> + Msg-ID: <199612180659.WAA24957@idiom.com> + Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:59:59 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm + + Title: "Add File::Compare" + From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com> + Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto> + Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT + Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Add Tie::RefHash" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500 + Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Put "splain" in utils." + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL + + Title: "Some h2ph fixes" + From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800 + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + Title: "xsubpp patch to add #line" + From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons) + Msg-ID: <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com> + Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> + Msg-ID: <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t + + Title: "DB_File 1.09 patch" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "Debugger update" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale" + From: Tom Christiansen and Dominic Dunlop + Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod + pod/perlnews.pod + + Title: "perltoot.pod" + From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> + Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod + + Title: "Perlguts, version 25" + From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com> + Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST + Files: pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pod/perlipc.pod patch" + From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199612090910.CAA20906@mox.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 3:10:02 CST + Files: pod/perlipc.pod + + Title: "pod patches for English errors" + From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com> + Msg-ID: <24616.850167191@castor> + Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800 + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "Misc doc updates" + From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> + Msg-ID: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700 + Files: pod/* + +---------------- Version 5.003_11 ---------------- |