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what is new for perl v5.14.1

Description

This document describes differences between the 5.14.0 release and the 5.14.1 release.

If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.0, first read perl5140delta, which describes differences between 5.12.0 and 5.14.0.

Core Enhancements

No changes since 5.14.0.

Security

No changes since 5.14.0.

Incompatible Changes

There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.14.0. If any exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.

Deprecations

There have been no deprecations since 5.14.0.

Modules and Pragmata

New Modules and Pragmata

None

Updated Modules and Pragmata

  • B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.03 to 1.04, to address two regressions in Perl 5.14.0:

    Deparsing of the glob operator and its diamond (<>) form now works again. [perl #90898]

    The presence of subroutines named :::: or :::::: no longer causes B::Deparse to hang.

  • Pod::Perldoc has been upgraded from version 3.15_03 to 3.15_04.

    It corrects the search paths on VMS. [perl #90640]

Removed Modules and Pragmata

None

Documentation

New Documentation

None

Changes to Existing Documentation

perlfunc

  • given, when and default are now listed in perlfunc.
  • Documentation for use now includes a pointer to if.pm.

perllol

  • perllol has been expanded with examples using the new push $scalar syntax introduced in Perl 5.14.0.

perlop

  • The explanation of bitwise operators has been expanded to explain how they work on Unicode strings.
  • The section on the triple-dot or yada-yada operator has been moved up, as it used to separate two closely related sections about the comma operator.
  • More examples for m//g have been added.
  • The <<\FOO here-doc syntax has been documented.

perlrun

  • perlrun has undergone a significant clean-up.  Most notably, the -0x... form of the -0 flag has been clarified, and the final section on environment variables has been corrected and expanded.

POSIX

  • The invocation documentation for WIFEXITED, WEXITSTATUS, WIFSIGNALED, WTERMSIG, WIFSTOPPED, and WSTOPSIG was corrected.

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 perldiag.

New Diagnostics

None

Changes to Existing Diagnostics

None

Utility Changes

None

Configuration and Compilation

Testing

Platform Support

New Platforms

None

Discontinued Platforms

None

Platform-Specific Notes

Solaris

  • Documentation listing the Solaris packages required to build Perl on Solaris 9 and Solaris 10 has been corrected.

Mac OS X

  • The lib/locale.t test script has been updated to work on the upcoming Lion release.
  • Mac OS X specific compilation instructions have been clarified.

Ubuntu Linux

  • The ODBM_File installation process has been updated with the new library paths on Ubuntu natty.

Internal Changes

Bug Fixes

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.14.1 represents approximately four weeks of development since Perl 5.14.0 and contains approximately 3500 lines of changes across 38 files from 17 authors.

Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers.  The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.14.1:

Bo Lindbergh, Claudio Ramirez, Craig A. Berry, David Leadbeater, Father Chrysostomos, Jesse Vincent, Jim Cromie, Justin Case, Karl Williamson, Leo Lapworth, Nicholas Clark, Nobuhiro Iwamatsu, smash, Tom Christiansen, Ton Hospel, Vladimir Timofeev, and Zsbán Ambrus.

Reporting Bugs

If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ .  There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.

If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the 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 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 please send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.

See Also

The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.

The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.

The README file for general stuff.

The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.

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2024-10-15 perl v5.40.0 Perl Programmers Reference Guide