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@@ -9,6 +9,304 @@ releases.) ---------------- +Version 5.003_21 +---------------- + +This release includes several important bug fixes, and a couple of +minor but valuable language tweaks. Please read on for a list of the +significant changes: + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix overloading via inherited autoloaded functions" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701131022.FAA22830@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 05:22:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: gv.c lib/overload.pm pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/overload.t + + Title: "Method call fixes: Don't cache in alias, don't skip undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: global.sym gv.c gv.h hv.c op.c pod/perlguts.pod + pod/perltoc.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c sv.c + t/op/method.t + + Title: "Formats can be closures" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: cv.h op.c perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y pp_sys.c sv.h + + Title: "Quote 'foo' in C<$x{-foo}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Forbid C< x->{y} > and C< x->[0] > under C<strict refs>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/strict-refs + + Title: "Allow <=> to return undef when operands are not ordered" + From: Chip Salzenberg and Andreas Koenig + Files: MANIFEST pp.c t/op/cmp.t + + Title: "Fail regex that starts with '{'" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: regcomp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Re: Perl 5.003_20: OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701101102.GAA19051@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 06:02:16 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/os2.sh os2/Changes os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "VMS patches for _20" + From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU> + Msg-ID: <01IE7MGK7ULQ003K5M@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 17:34:43 -0500 (EST) + Files: configpm dosish.h os2/os2ish.h plan9/plan9ish.h proto.h + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t toke.c + unixish.h vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/genconfig.pl vms/perly_c.vms vms/test.com vms/vmsish.h + x2p/a2p.h x2p/str.c + + Title: "Irix 6.3 & 6.4 and perl5.003_20" + From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com> + Msg-ID: <199701132242.RAA14601@jfs.Fluent.COM> + Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 17:42:50 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6_3.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh + + Title: "Patch: MachTen hints, Configure" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03010d00af0123a93670@[194.51.248.75]> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:43:13 +0100 + Files: Configure hints/machten.sh + + Title: "Rename aux.sh to aux_3.sh for MS-LOSS" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: MANIFEST hints/aux_3.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix C< eval { my $x; eval '$x' } >" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Don't warn if eval '' uses outer func's lexicals" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Avoid memory wastage in wait(); make pidstatus global" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: global.sym interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Forbid ++ and -- on readonly values" + From: "John Q. Linux" <jql@accessone.com> + Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.95.970110193330.11249D-100000@jql.accessone.com> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 19:47:16 -0800 (PST) + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Keep array from dying during foreach(@array)" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix C< $a="simple"; split /($a)/o >" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Fix infinite loop for undef function in @SIG{__WARN__,__DIE__}" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: util.c + + Title: "Fix for anon-lists with tied entries coredump" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701100745.CAA13057@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 02:45:11 -0500 + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Don't set SVf_PADBUSY on immortal SVs" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c + + Title: "Patch for Object subroutines" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701080156.UAA15366@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 7 Jan 1997 20:56:02 -0500 (EST) + Files: cop.h + + Title: "Use an SVt_PVLV to hold stacked OP pointers when debugging" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Undo change that freed large pad vars" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: scope.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Make MachTen hints file warn about db-recno failures" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03010d00aef92fba6aca@[194.51.248.78]> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 12:07:18 +0100 + Files: hints/machten.sh + + Title: "5.003_20, FreeBSD 3.0 and minor patch" + From: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) + Msg-ID: <Mutt.19970108143747.roberto@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 14:37:47 +0100 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Make installperl quieter; only shared libraries need 0555" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: installperl + + TESTS + + Title: "Advice on TEST failure" + From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu> + Msg-ID: <v03010d01aefbaefcf3bc@[194.51.248.78]> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 10:19:07 +0100 + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "UNIVERSAL tests" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> + Files: MANIFEST t/op/universal.t + + Title: "Test deletion of array during foreach" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@alpha.hut.fi> + Files: t/op/misc.t + + Title: "patch for db-recno.t" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9701121509.AA11147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Sun, 12 Jan 1997 15:09:33 +0000 (GMT) + Files: t/lib/db-recno.t + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Localize info about filesystems being case-forgiving" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm pod/checkpods.PL 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 utils/splain.PL + x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL + + Title: "Fix for fd leak in IO::File::new_tmpfile" + From: Graham Barr and Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm + + Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.6" + From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl> + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.10" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9701141247.AA21242@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 97 12:47:40 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "Re: FileCache::cacheout clobbers $_" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> + Msg-ID: <pz3ewb3189.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 08 Jan 1997 23:45:58 -0500 + Files: lib/FileCache.pm lib/cacheout.pl + + Title: "PATCH: AutoSplit" + From: Graham Barr <bodg@tiuk.ti.com> + Msg-ID: <9603111010.AA29935@tiuk.ti.com> + Date: 11 Mar 1996 06:01:58 -0500 + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + Title: "Re: Uninitialized value in Carp.pm ? " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701141815.NAA07960@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 14 Jan 1997 13:15:25 -0500 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Avoid "uninitialized" warnings from POSIX::constant()" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm + + Title: "Eliminate warning from C<use overload>" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: lib/overload.pm + + Title: "low priority patches" + From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) + Msg-ID: <9701081655.AA27349@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 97 16:55:02 GMT + Files: lib/Cwd.pm t/comp/redef.t t/lib/db-btree.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Re: xsubpp and Tk ==> segfault" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701080825.DAA15813@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 8 Jan 1997 03:25:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp + + Title: "Re: MakeMaker and 'make uninstall'" + From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de> + Msg-ID: <199701101243.NAA26400@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 13:43:39 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "Don't search for pod if path is already valid" + From: Wayne Scott <wscott@ichips.intel.com> + Msg-ID: <199701082325.PAA04521@pdxlx008.intel.com> + Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 15:25:19 -0800 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Yet another perldoc option" + From: Gisle Aas <aas@aas.no> + Msg-ID: <199610022200.AAA15334@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 00:00:35 +0200 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Re: perldoc, temp files, async pagers" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> + Msg-ID: <pzwwtoom8p.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: 07 Jan 1997 22:54:14 -0500 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Full documentation generation patch" + From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com> + Msg-ID: <15309.853323388@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> + Date: Wed, 15 Jan 97 11:16:28 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST pod/roffitall pod/rofftoc + + Title: "Re: documentation correction (i.e. patch) for perlsyn.pod" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk> + Msg-ID: <E0vilLh-0000M6-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk> + Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 18:06:37 +0000 + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Title: "Document use of pos() and /\G/" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701132013.PAA26606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 13 Jan 1997 15:13:12 -0500 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlre.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Fix example #4 in perlXStut" + From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu> + Msg-ID: <199701050739.CAA11112@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Sun, 5 Jan 1997 02:39:45 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "Document new closure warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net> + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Misc. doc patches missing in _20" + From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net> + Msg-ID: <102.852695733@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Tue, 07 Jan 1997 22:55:33 -0500 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + +---------------- Version 5.003_20 ---------------- |