Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information, please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases, or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version releases.) --------------- CAST AND CREW --------------- To give due honor to those who have made Perl what is is today, here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their current addresses (as of July 1998): Gisle Aas Abigail Kenneth Albanowski Russ Allbery Graham Barr Spider Boardman Tom Christiansen Hallvard B Furuseth M. J. T. Guy Jarkko Hietaniemi Nick Ing-Simmons Andreas Koenig Doug MacEachern Paul Marquess Stephen McCamant Laszlo Molnar Hans Mulder Matthias Neeracher Jeff Okamoto Ulrich Pfeifer Tom Phoenix Joshua Pritikin Norbert Pueschel Dean Roehrich Hugo van der Sanden Roderick Schertler Kurt D. Starsinic Dan Sugalski Larry W. Virden Ilya Zakharevich And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: Charles Bailey Malcolm Beattie Tim Bunce Andy Dougherty Gurusamy Sarathy Chip Salzenberg And, of course, the Author of Perl: Larry Wall NOTE: Each change entry shows the change number; who checked it into the repository; when; description of the change; which branch the change happened in; and the affected files. The file lists have a short symbolic indicator: ! modified + added - deleted +> branched (from elsewhere) !> merged changes (from elsewhere) ---------------- Version 5.005_51 Development release working toward 5.006 ---------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1776] By: gsar on 1998/08/09 17:53:48 Log: fix coredump with MULTIPLICITY (ckWARN() needs early curcop init) Branch: perl ! Changes MANIFEST perl.c pod/perlhist.pod ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1775] By: gsar on 1998/08/09 14:35:33 Log: tweak warning test Branch: perl ! t/pragma/warn-toke ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1774] By: gsar on 1998/08/09 14:13:46 Log: add missing dTHR; notes for test failures due to small stacksize Branch: perl ! doio.c gv.c op.c sv.c t/pragma/warn-mg t/pragma/warn-regexec ! toke.c universal.c util.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1773] By: gsar on 1998/08/09 11:31:53 Log: lexical warnings; tweaks to places that didn't apply correctly From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 09:28:45 BST Message-Id: <9807290828.AA26286@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Subject: lexical warnings patch for 5.005_50 Branch: perl + README.lexwarn lib/warning.pm t/pragma/warn-2use + t/pragma/warn-3both t/pragma/warn-4lint t/pragma/warn-5nolint + t/pragma/warn-doio t/pragma/warn-gv t/pragma/warn-mg + t/pragma/warn-op t/pragma/warn-perl t/pragma/warn-perly + t/pragma/warn-pp t/pragma/warn-pp_ctl t/pragma/warn-pp_hot + t/pragma/warn-pp_sys t/pragma/warn-regcomp + t/pragma/warn-regexec t/pragma/warn-sv t/pragma/warn-taint + t/pragma/warn-toke t/pragma/warn-universal t/pragma/warn-util + warning.h warning.pl ! Changes MANIFEST Makefile.SH cop.h doio.c global.sym gv.c ! lib/diagnostics.pm mg.c op.c op.h perl.c perl.h pp.c pp_ctl.c ! pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c t/op/tie.t ! t/pragma/warn-1global t/pragma/warning.t taint.c toke.c ! universal.c util.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1772] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 23:06:00 Log: bump patchlevel to 5.005_51 Branch: perl ! patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1771] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 23:01:57 Log: fix bogus warning on "\x{123}" From: pmarquess@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess) Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 06:16:15 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <9807270534.AA11102@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> Subject: [5.005_50 PATCH] Some unicode problems Branch: perl ! regcomp.c toke.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1770] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:56:55 Log: hide dup symbol for static build of ext/re From: Dominic Dunlop Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 11:09:56 +0100 (WET DST) Message-Id: <199807291009.LAA08935@ppp72.vo.lu> Subject: Not OK: perl 5.00550 on powerpc-machten 4.1 [BOGUS PATCH] Branch: perl ! regcomp.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1769] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:45:06 Log: fix double free on -Mutf8 -e '$b=uc("")' From: larry@wall.org (Larry Wall) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 14:42:43 -0700 Message-Id: <199808072142.OAA14920@wall.org> Subject: [PATCH 5.005_50]: uc("") and lc("") under utf8 fails Branch: perl ! pp.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1768] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:42:29 Log: substr() assumes utf8 without say-so From: larry@wall.org (Larry Wall) Date: Fri, 7 Aug 1998 12:25:12 -0700 Message-Id: <199808071925.MAA13436@wall.org> Subject: [PATCH 5.005_50] substr bug? Branch: perl ! pp.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1767] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:38:25 Log: fix intolerance of SWASHes for blank lines From: Gisle Aas Date: 06 Aug 1998 23:28:57 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Re[2]: another joyride begins Branch: perl ! lib/utf8_heavy.pl ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1766] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:33:10 Log: utf8 doc tweak From: Gisle Aas Date: 05 Aug 1998 00:41:04 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Matching clumps Branch: perl ! lib/utf8.pm ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1765] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:31:37 Log: kill bogus warning from -we 'use utf8; $_="\x{FF}"' From: Gisle Aas Date: 04 Aug 1998 22:56:11 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: another joyride begins Branch: perl ! lib/utf8_heavy.pl ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1764] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:28:43 Log: From: larry@wall.org (Larry Wall) Date: Tue, 4 Aug 1998 17:04:51 -0700 Message-Id: <199808050004.RAA22592@wall.org> Subject: [PATCH 5.005_50] \pX not implemented! Branch: perl ! regcomp.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1763] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:27:15 Log: From: Stephen McCamant Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 16:33:18 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <13764.55116.921952.837027@alias-2.pr.mcs.net> Subject: [PATCH] Eliminate superfluous RV2p[AH]Vs in oops[AH]V() Branch: perl ! op.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1762] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:26:09 Log: From: Jarkko Hietaniemi Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:05:28 +0300 (EET DST) Message-Id: <199808021905.WAA10592@alpha.hut.fi> Subject: [PATCH] 5.005_02-TRIAL1 or 5.004_05-MAINT_TRIAL_5: t/op/{pw,gr}ent.t Branch: perl + t/op/grent.t t/op/pwent.t ! MANIFEST ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1761] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:21:52 Log: From: Ilya Zakharevich Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1998 19:23:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199807302323.TAA21175@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Subject: [5.005_50 PATCH] misprint in RE engine Branch: perl ! regexec.c t/op/re_tests ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1760] By: gsar on 1998/08/08 22:18:54 Log: integrate maint-5.005 changes into mainline Branch: perl +> Porting/fixCORE README.os390 ebcdic.c win32/des_fcrypt.patch !> (integrate 138 files) ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1672] By: gsar on 1998/07/27 18:35:28 Log: create new Changes Branch: perl + Changes ! Changes5.005 MANIFEST ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1671] By: gsar on 1998/07/27 18:30:57 Log: rename Changes --> Changes5.005 Branch: perl +> Changes5.005 - Changes ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1670] By: gsar on 1998/07/27 18:10:14 Log: integrate 5.005_01 changes from maint Branch: perl ! Changes !> README.win32 pod/perldelta.pod proto.h toke.c win32/GenCAPI.pl !> win32/win32.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1667] By: nick on 1998/07/26 14:31:01 Log: Add dTHR so that it compiles miniperl in threaded mode Branch: perl ! doop.c mg.c regcomp.c regexec.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1666] By: nick on 1998/07/26 13:01:10 Log: Resolve ansiperl against mainline (@1648?) Unclear that change number has "taken". Branch: ansiperl +> (branch 169 files) - ObjXSub.h XSLock.h compat3.sym fixvars pod/perld4.pod !> (integrate 131 files) ---------------- Version 5.005_50 ---------------- ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1665] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 05:38:48 Log: add trailing newline to file Branch: perl ! Changes lib/unicode/blocks.txt ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1664] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 05:08:48 Log: integrate proto.h additions from maint-5.005 Branch: perl !> pod/perlhist.pod proto.h ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1663] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 05:07:05 Log: add new files to MANIFEST; add missing prototypes to proto.h; s/PL_utf8skip/utf8skip/ for now, or we end up with Perl_PL_; add typecasts to silence warnings; tweaks for win32 builds Branch: perl ! MANIFEST embed.h global.sym proto.h regexec.c toke.c utf8.h ! win32/Makefile win32/makefile.mk ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1662] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 05:01:52 Log: add missing sv_*_mg() prototypes in proto.h, update perlhist.pod Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! pod/perlhist.pod proto.h ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1661] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:52:48 Log: up patchlevel to 5.005_50 Branch: perl ! Changes patchlevel.h win32/Makefile win32/config_H.bc ! win32/config_H.gc win32/config_H.vc win32/makefile.mk ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1660] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:43:57 Log: integrate utfperl Branch: perl +> (branch 162 files) !> (integrate 29 files) ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1659] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:38:22 Log: integrate maint-5.005 changes Branch: perl !> Changes README.vms djgpp/fixpmain emacs/ptags hints/beos.sh !> lib/Math/BigInt.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmodinstall.pod !> pod/perltoc.pod pp_sys.c t/lib/bigintpm.t !> vms/descrip_mms.template vms/subconfigure.com ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1658] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:23:46 Log: VMS patches from Dan Sugalski Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 11:38:25 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980724113825.00a067b0@ous.edu> Subject: [PATCH 5.005] version number problem with VMS (Corrected) -- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 12:30:36 -0700 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980724123036.009f0390@ous.edu> Subject: [PATCH 5.005]Tweaks to README.vms -- Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 17:56:55 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Subject: [PATCH 5.005] Final build cleanup patch Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! README.vms vms/descrip_mms.template vms/subconfigure.com ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1657] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:19:50 Log: another platform where pp_sselect() needs a whole fd_set buffer From: Lupe Christoph Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 19:49:33 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199807251749.TAA22347@alanya.m.isar.de> Subject: Patch for Not OK: perl 5.005 on i86pc-solaris-thread 2.6 Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! pp_sys.c ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1656] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:12:46 Log: fix problem building modules on dos-djgpp From: Laszlo Molnar Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 00:53:39 +0200 Message-ID: <19980725005339.C222@cdata.tvnet.hu> Subject: [PATCH 5.005] dos-djgpp and modules problem Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! djgpp/fixpmain ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1655] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:11:09 Log: From: Tom Spindler Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 16:11:07 -0400 Message-ID: <19980722161107.A16813@home.merit.edu> Subject: [PATCH 5.005] BeOS tweak Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! hints/beos.sh ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1654] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:09:29 Log: various pod tweaks Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! Changes pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmodinstall.pod ! pod/perltoc.pod ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1653] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:05:46 Log: fix emacs/ptags for PL_* changes From: Ilya Zakharevich Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 03:12:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <199807240712.DAA04204@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> Subject: [PATCH 5.004_76] Yet better ptags Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! emacs/ptags ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1652] By: gsar on 1998/07/26 02:03:01 Log: fix behavior of <=> on bigints From: "M.J.T. Guy" Message-Id: Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 18:29:53 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Re: Math::BigInt <=> op is not correct. Branch: maint-5.005/perl ! lib/Math/BigInt.pm t/lib/bigintpm.t ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1651] By: larry on 1998/07/24 05:44:33 Log: Here are the long-expected Unicode/UTF-8 modifications. Branch: utfperl + lib/unicode/ArabLink.pl lib/unicode/ArabLnkGrp.pl + lib/unicode/Bidirectional.pl lib/unicode/Block.pl + lib/unicode/Category.pl lib/unicode/CombiningClass.pl + lib/unicode/Decomposition.pl + lib/unicode/In/AlphabeticPresentationForms.pl + lib/unicode/In/Arabic.pl + lib/unicode/In/ArabicPresentationForms-A.pl + lib/unicode/In/ArabicPresentationForms-B.pl + lib/unicode/In/Armenian.pl lib/unicode/In/Arrows.pl + lib/unicode/In/BasicLatin.pl lib/unicode/In/Bengali.pl + lib/unicode/In/BlockElements.pl lib/unicode/In/Bopomofo.pl + lib/unicode/In/BoxDrawing.pl + lib/unicode/In/CJKCompatibility.pl + lib/unicode/In/CJKCompatibilityForms.pl + lib/unicode/In/CJKCompatibilityIdeographs.pl + lib/unicode/In/CJKSymbolsandPunctuation.pl + lib/unicode/In/CJKUnifiedIdeographs.pl + lib/unicode/In/CombiningDiacriticalMarks.pl + lib/unicode/In/CombiningHalfMarks.pl + lib/unicode/In/CombiningMarksforSymbols.pl + lib/unicode/In/ControlPictures.pl + lib/unicode/In/CurrencySymbols.pl lib/unicode/In/Cyrillic.pl + lib/unicode/In/Devanagari.pl lib/unicode/In/Dingbats.pl + lib/unicode/In/EnclosedAlphanumerics.pl + lib/unicode/In/EnclosedCJKLettersandMonths.pl + lib/unicode/In/GeneralPunctuation.pl + lib/unicode/In/GeometricShapes.pl lib/unicode/In/Georgian.pl + lib/unicode/In/Greek.pl lib/unicode/In/GreekExtended.pl + lib/unicode/In/Gujarati.pl lib/unicode/In/Gurmukhi.pl + lib/unicode/In/HalfwidthandFullwidthForms.pl + lib/unicode/In/HangulCompatibilityJamo.pl + lib/unicode/In/HangulJamo.pl lib/unicode/In/HangulSyllables.pl + lib/unicode/In/Hebrew.pl + lib/unicode/In/HighPrivateUseSurrogates.pl + lib/unicode/In/HighSurrogates.pl lib/unicode/In/Hiragana.pl + lib/unicode/In/IPAExtensions.pl lib/unicode/In/Kanbun.pl + lib/unicode/In/Kannada.pl lib/unicode/In/Katakana.pl + lib/unicode/In/Lao.pl lib/unicode/In/Latin-1Supplement.pl + lib/unicode/In/LatinExtended-A.pl + lib/unicode/In/LatinExtended-B.pl + lib/unicode/In/LatinExtendedAdditional.pl + lib/unicode/In/LetterlikeSymbols.pl + lib/unicode/In/LowSurrogates.pl lib/unicode/In/Malayalam.pl + lib/unicode/In/MathematicalOperators.pl + lib/unicode/In/MiscellaneousSymbols.pl + lib/unicode/In/MiscellaneousTechnical.pl + lib/unicode/In/NumberForms.pl + lib/unicode/In/OpticalCharacterRecognition.pl + lib/unicode/In/Oriya.pl lib/unicode/In/PrivateUse.pl + lib/unicode/In/SmallFormVariants.pl + lib/unicode/In/SpacingModifierLetters.pl + lib/unicode/In/Specials.pl + lib/unicode/In/SuperscriptsandSubscripts.pl + lib/unicode/In/Tamil.pl lib/unicode/In/Telugu.pl + lib/unicode/In/Thai.pl lib/unicode/In/Tibetan.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Alnum.pl lib/unicode/Is/Alpha.pl + lib/unicode/Is/BidiAN.pl lib/unicode/Is/BidiB.pl + lib/unicode/Is/BidiCS.pl lib/unicode/Is/BidiEN.pl + lib/unicode/Is/BidiES.pl lib/unicode/Is/BidiET.pl + lib/unicode/Is/BidiL.pl lib/unicode/Is/BidiON.pl + lib/unicode/Is/BidiR.pl lib/unicode/Is/BidiS.pl + lib/unicode/Is/BidiWS.pl lib/unicode/Is/C.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Cc.pl lib/unicode/Is/Cn.pl lib/unicode/Is/Co.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCcircle.pl lib/unicode/Is/DCcompat.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCfinal.pl lib/unicode/Is/DCfont.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCinital.pl lib/unicode/Is/DCinitial.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCisolated.pl lib/unicode/Is/DCnarrow.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCnoBreak.pl lib/unicode/Is/DCsmall.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCsquare.pl lib/unicode/Is/DCsub.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCsuper.pl lib/unicode/Is/DCvertical.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DCwide.pl lib/unicode/Is/DecoCanon.pl + lib/unicode/Is/DecoCompat.pl lib/unicode/Is/Digit.pl + lib/unicode/Is/L.pl lib/unicode/Is/Ll.pl lib/unicode/Is/Lm.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Lo.pl lib/unicode/Is/Lower.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Lt.pl lib/unicode/Is/Lu.pl lib/unicode/Is/M.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Mc.pl lib/unicode/Is/Mirrored.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Mn.pl lib/unicode/Is/N.pl lib/unicode/Is/Nd.pl + lib/unicode/Is/No.pl lib/unicode/Is/P.pl lib/unicode/Is/Pd.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Pe.pl lib/unicode/Is/Po.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Print.pl lib/unicode/Is/Ps.pl + lib/unicode/Is/S.pl lib/unicode/Is/Sc.pl lib/unicode/Is/Sm.pl + lib/unicode/Is/So.pl lib/unicode/Is/Space.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Upper.pl lib/unicode/Is/Z.pl + lib/unicode/Is/Zl.pl lib/unicode/Is/Zp.pl lib/unicode/Is/Zs.pl + lib/unicode/JamoShort.pl lib/unicode/Makefile + lib/unicode/Name.pl lib/unicode/Number.pl + lib/unicode/To/Digit.pl lib/unicode/To/Lower.pl + lib/unicode/To/Title.pl lib/unicode/To/Upper.pl + lib/unicode/UnicodeData-Latest.txt lib/unicode/arabshp.txt + lib/unicode/blocks.txt lib/unicode/index2.txt + lib/unicode/jamo2.txt lib/unicode/mktables.PL + lib/unicode/names2.txt lib/unicode/props2.txt + lib/unicode/readme.txt lib/utf8.pm lib/utf8_heavy.pl t/UTEST + utf8.c utf8.h ! Makefile.SH doop.c embed.h embedvar.h global.sym handy.h mg.c ! op.c op.h perl.h perlvars.h pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod ! pod/perlre.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c proto.h regcomp.c ! regcomp.h regcomp.sym regexec.c regexp.h regnodes.h sv.c ! t/op/vec.t toke.c util.c vms/vmsish.h ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1650] By: gsar on 1998/07/24 04:06:48 Log: create utfperl branch Branch: utfperl +> (branch 1079 files) ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1649] By: gsar on 1998/07/24 03:56:56 Log: create maint-5.005 branch Branch: maint-5.005/perl +> (branch 1079 files) ____________________________________________________________________________ [ 1648] By: gsar on 1998/07/24 03:36:35 Log: un-checked-in 5.005 Changes (this is 5.005 *exactly*) Branch: perl ! Changes