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It -continues to be available on CPAN C<L<Locale::Codes>>. [perl #133458]. - -=back - -=head1 Documentation - -=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation - -We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes -listed in this document. If you find any we have missed, send email -to L<perlbug@perl.org|mailto:perlbug@perl.org>. - -Additionally, the following selected changes have been made: - -=head3 L<perlreapi>, L<perlvar> - -=over 4 - -=item * - -Improve docs for lastparen, lastcloseparen - -=back - -=head1 Testing - -Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes -in this release. - -=head1 Platform Support - -=head2 Platform-Specific Notes - -=over 4 - -=item Windows - -The Windows Server 2003 SP1 Platform SDK build, with its early x64 compiler and -tools, was accidentally broken in Perl 5.27.9. This has now been fixed. - -=back - -=head1 Selected Bug Fixes - -=over 4 - -=item * - -Warnings produced from constant folding operations on overloaded -values no longer produce spurious "Use of uninitialized value" -warnings. [perl #132683] - -=item * - -Fix for "mutator not seen in (lex = ...) .= ..." [perl #133441] - -=back - -=head1 Acknowledgements - -Perl 5.29.3 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl -5.29.2 and contains approximately 150,000 lines of changes across 190 files -from 15 authors. - -Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were -approximately 140,000 lines of changes to 92 .pm, .t, .c and .h files. - -Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant -community of users and developers. The following people are known to have -contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.29.3: - -Andy Dougherty, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, David -Mitchell, Eugen Konkov, Graham Knop, H.Merijn Brand, James E Keenan, John SJ -Anderson, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Sawyer X, Slaven Rezic, Steve -Hay, Sullivan Beck, 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 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 see -L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> -for details of how to report the issue. - -=head1 Give Thanks - -If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, -you can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program: - - perlthanks - -This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks. - -=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 |