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diff --git a/pod/perl5331delta.pod b/pod/perl5331delta.pod deleted file mode 100644 index 5f8b062eb6..0000000000 --- a/pod/perl5331delta.pod +++ /dev/null @@ -1,507 +0,0 @@ -=encoding utf8 - -=head1 NAME - -perl5331delta - what is new for perl v5.33.1 - -=head1 DESCRIPTION - -This document describes differences between the 5.33.0 release and the 5.33.1 -release. - -If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.32.0, first read -L<perl5330delta>, which describes differences between 5.32.0 and 5.33.0. - -=head1 Modules and Pragmata - -=head2 New Modules and Pragmata - -=over 4 - -=item * - -L<ExtUtils::PL2Bat> 0.002 has been added to the Perl core. - -This module is a generalization of the C<pl2bat> script. It being a script has led -to at least two forks of this code, this modules will unify them under one -implementation with tests. - -=back - -=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata - -=over 4 - -=item * - -L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.80 to 1.81. - -=item * - -L<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from version 1.54 to 1.55. - -=item * - -L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from version 2.174 to 2.175. - -=item * - -L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded from version 1.28 to 1.29. - -=item * - -L<Devel::PPPort> has been upgraded from version 3.57 to 3.60. - -New C<PERL_VERSION_*> comparison macros are now available. - -C<ppport.h --api-info> no longer includes non-API info unless that is the only match - -=item * - -L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.47 to 1.48. - -=item * - -L<Errno> has been upgraded from version 1.30 to 1.31. - -=item * - -L<Exporter> has been upgraded from version 5.74 to 5.75. - -=item * - -L<ExtUtils::Miniperl> has been upgraded from version 1.09 to 1.10. - -=item * - -L<ExtUtils::ParseXS> has been upgraded from version 3.40 to 3.41. - -=item * - -L<Fcntl> has been upgraded from version 1.13 to 1.14. - -=item * - -L<feature> has been upgraded from version 1.59 to 1.60. - -A new L<multidimensional|feature/"The 'multidimensional' feature"> -feature has been added, which is enabled by -default but allows turning off L<multi-dimensional array -emulation|perldata/Multi-dimensional array emulation>. - -=item * - -L<File::Path> has been upgraded from version 2.16 to 2.17. - -=item * - -L<Hash::Util> has been upgraded from version 0.23 to 0.24. - -=item * - -L<Hash::Util::FieldHash> has been upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.21. - -=item * - -L<IO> has been upgraded from version 1.43 to 1.44. - -The C<error> method now reports the error state for both the input and -output streams for sockets and character devices. Similarly -C<clearerr> now clears the error state for both streams. - -A spurious error reported for regular file handles has been -fixed in L<IO::Handle>. L<GH #18019|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18019> - -=item * - -L<IPC::SysV> has been upgraded from version 2.07 to 2.08. - -=item * - -L<JSON::PP> has been upgraded from version 4.04 to 4.05. - -=item * - -L<Math::Complex> has been upgraded from version 1.5901 to 1.5902. - -=item * - -L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20200717 to 5.20200820. - -=item * - -L<mro> has been upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.24. - -=item * - -L<Net::Ping> has been upgraded from version 2.72 to 2.73_01. - -=item * - -L<PerlIO::mmap> has been upgraded from version 0.016 to 0.017. - -=item * - -L<Pod::Usage> has been upgraded from version 1.69 to 1.70. - -=item * - -L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 1.94 to 1.95. - -=item * - -L<Safe> has been upgraded from version 2.41 to 2.42. - -=item * - -L<Socket> has been upgraded from version 2.029 to 2.030. - -=item * - -L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 3.21 to 3.22. - -=item * - -L<strict> has been upgraded from version 1.11 to 1.12. - -=item * - -L<threads> has been upgraded from version 2.25 to 2.26. - -=item * - -L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.61 to 1.62. - -=item * - -L<Time::HiRes> has been upgraded from version 1.9764 to 1.9765. - -=item * - -L<Unicode::Normalize> has been upgraded from version 1.27 to 1.28. - -=item * - -L<warnings> has been upgraded from version 1.47 to 1.48. - -=item * - -L<XS::APItest> has been upgraded from version 1.09 to 1.11. - -=item * - -L<XS::Typemap> has been upgraded from version 0.17 to 0.18. - -=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, open an issue -at L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. - -Additionally, the following selected changes have been made: - -=head3 L<perldebguts> - -=over 4 - -=item * - -Corrected the description of the scalar C<< ${"_<$filename"} >> -variables. - -=back - -=head3 L<perlfunc> - -=over 4 - -=item * - -Better explanation of what happens when C<sleep> is called with a zero or -negative value. - -=back - -=head3 L<perlguts> - -=over 4 - -=item * - -Corrected C<my_rpeep> example in perlguts. - -=item * - -A section has been added on the formatted printing of special sizes. - -=back - -=head3 L<perlop> - -=over 4 - -=item * - -The C<< <> >> and C<<< <<>> >>> operators are commonly referred to as -the diamond and double diamond operators respectively, but that wasn't -mentioned previously in their documentation. - -=item * - -Document range op behavior change. - -=back - -=head3 L<perlpacktut> - -=over 4 - -=item * - -Incorrect variables used in an example have been fixed. - -=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<Multidimensional hash lookup is disabled|perldiag/"Multidimensional hash lookup is disabled"> - -This accompanies the new L<multidimensional|feature/"The 'multidimensional' feature"> feature. - -=back - -=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics - -=over 4 - -=item * - -L<Use of uninitialized value%s|perldiag/"Use of uninitialized value%s"> - -This warning may now include the array or hash index when the -uninitialized value is the result of an element not found. This will -only happen if the index is a simple non-magical variable. - -=back - -=head1 Utility Changes - -=head2 L<perl5db.pl> (the debugger) - -=over 4 - -=item * New option: C<HistItemMinLength> - -This option controls the minimum length a command must be to get stored in -history. Traditionally, this has been fixed at 2. Changes to the debugger -are often perilous, and new bugs should be reported so the debugger can be -debugged. - -=item * Fix to C<i> and C<l> commands - -The C<i $var> and C<l $var> commands work again with lexical variables. - -=back - -=head1 Configuration and Compilation - -=over 4 - -=item * - -The minimum supported Bison version is now 2.4, and the maxiumm is 3.7. - -=item * - -Newer 64-bit versions of the Intel C/C++ compiler are now recognised -and have the correct flags set. - -=back - -=head1 Testing - -Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes -in this release. - -=head1 Platform Support - -=head2 New Platforms - -=over 4 - -=item 9front - -Allow building Perl on i386 9front systems (fork of plan9). - -=back - -=head2 Updated Platforms - -=over 4 - -=item Plan9 - -Improve support for Plan9 on i386 platforms. - -=item MacOS (Darwin) - -The hints file for darwin has been updated to handle future MacOS versions -beyond 10. L<GH #17946|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17946> - -=back - -=head2 Discontinued Platforms - -=over 4 - -=item Symbian - -Support code relating to Symbian has been removed. Symbian was an -operating system for mobile devices. The port was last updated in July -2009, and the platform itself in October 2012. - -=back - -=head2 Platform-Specific Notes - -=over 4 - -=item z/OS - -The locale categories C<LC_SYNTAX> and C<LC_TOD> are now recognized. -Perl doesn't do anything with these, except it now allows you to specify -them. They are included in C<LC_ALL>. - -=back - -=head1 Internal Changes - -=over 4 - -=item * - -The C<PERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT> compilation option has been removed, and -with it the need or the C<dVAR> macro. C<dVAR> remains defined as a -no-op outside C<PERL_CORE> for backwards compatiblity with XS modules. - -=item * - -A new savestack type C<SAVEt_HINTS_HH> has been added, which neatens the -previous behaviour of C<SAVEt_HINTS>. On previous versions the types and -values pushed to the save stack would depend on whether the hints included the -C<HINT_LOCALIZE_HH> bit, which complicates external code that inspects the -save stack. The new version uses a different savestack type to indicate the -difference. - -=item * - -A new API function L<perlapi/av_count> has been added which gives a -clearly named way to find how many elements are in an array. - -=back - -=head1 Selected Bug Fixes - -=over 4 - -=item * - -On Win32, C<waitpid(-1, WNOHANG)> could sometimes have a very large -timeout. L<GH #16529|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16529> - -=item * - -C<MARK> and hence C<items> are now correctly initialized in BOOT XSUBs. - -=item * - -Some list assignments involving C<undef> on the left-hand side were -over-optimized and produced incorrect results. L<GH #16685|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/16685>, L<GH #17816|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17816> - -=back - -=head1 Acknowledgements - -Perl 5.33.1 represents approximately 5 weeks of development since Perl -5.33.0 and contains approximately 37,000 lines of changes across 740 files -from 34 authors. - -Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were -approximately 11,000 lines of changes to 290 .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 5.33.1: - -Adam Hartley, Christian Walde (Mithaldu), Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan -Book, David Mitchell, E. Choroba, Graham Knop, Graham Ollis, Hauke D, Ivan -Baidakou, James E Keenan, John Lightsey, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, -Leon Timmermans, Nicolas R., Paul Evans, Petr Písař, raiph, Renee Baecker, -Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Romano, Ryan Voots, Samuel Thibault, Sawyer -X, Scott Baker, Sizhe Zhao, Thibault Duponchelle, Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz -Konojacki, Tom Stellard, Tony Cook, vividsnow. - -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://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be information at -L<http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page. - -If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at -L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a -tiny but sufficient test case. - -If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it -inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, 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 |