PERL5137DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5137DELTA(1)NAME
perl5137delta - what is new for perl v5.13.7
DESCRIPTION
This document describes differences between the 5.13.6 release and the
5.13.7 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.5, first read
perl5136delta, which describes differences between 5.13.5 and 5.13.6.
Core Enhancements
Single term prototype
The "+" prototype is a special alternative to "$" that will act like
"\[@%]" when given a literal array or hash variable, but will otherwise
force scalar context on the argument. This is useful for functions
which should accept either a literal array or an array reference as the
argument:
sub smartpush (+@) {
my $aref = shift;
die "Not an array or arrayref" unless ref $aref eq 'ARRAY';
push @$aref, @_;
}
When using the "+" prototype, your function must check that the
argument is of an acceptable type.
"use re '/flags';"
The "re" pragma now has the ability to turn on regular expression flags
till the end of the lexical scope:
use re '/x';
"foo" =~ / (.+) /; # /x implied
See "'/flags' mode" in re for details.
Statement labels can appear in more places
Statement labels can now occur before any type of statement or
declaration, such as "package".
"use feature "unicode_strings"" now applies to more regex matching
Another chunk of the "The "Unicode Bug"" in perlunicode is fixed in
this release. Now, regular expressions compiled within the scope of
the "unicode_strings" feature (or under the "u" regex modifier
(specifiable currently only with infix notation "(?u:...)" or via "use
re '/u'") will match the same whether or not the target string is
encoded in utf8, with regard to "[[:posix:]]" character classes
Work is underway to add the case sensitive matching to the control of
this feature, but was not complete in time for this dot release.
Array and hash container functions accept references
All built-in functions that operate directly on array or hash
containers now also accept hard references to arrays or hashes:
|----------------------------+---------------------------|
| Traditional syntax | Terse syntax |
|----------------------------+---------------------------|
| push @$arrayref, @stuff | push $arrayref, @stuff |
| unshift @$arrayref, @stuff | unshift $arrayref, @stuff |
| pop @$arrayref | pop $arrayref |
| shift @$arrayref | shift $arrayref |
| splice @$arrayref, 0, 2 | splice $arrayref, 0, 2 |
| keys %$hashref | keys $hashref |
| keys @$arrayref | keys $arrayref |
| values %$hashref | values $hashref |
| values @$arrayref | values $arrayref |
| ($k,$v) = each %$hashref | ($k,$v) = each $hashref |
| ($k,$v) = each @$arrayref | ($k,$v) = each $arrayref |
|----------------------------+---------------------------|
This allows these built-in functions to act on long dereferencing
chains or on the return value of subroutines without needing to wrap
them in "@{}" or "%{}":
push @{$obj->tags}, $new_tag; # old way
push $obj->tags, $new_tag; # new way
for ( keys %{$hoh->{genres}{artists}} ) {...} # old way
for ( keys $hoh->{genres}{artists} ) {...} # new way
For "push", "unshift" and "splice", the reference will auto-vivify if
it is not defined, just as if it were wrapped with "@{}".
Calling "keys" or "values" directly on a reference gives a substantial
performance improvement over explicit dereferencing.
For "keys", "values", "each", when overloaded dereferencing is present,
the overloaded dereference is used instead of dereferencing the
underlying reftype. Warnings are issued about assumptions made in the
following three ambiguous cases:
(a) If both %{} and @{} overloading exists, %{} is used
(b) If %{} overloading exists on a blessed arrayref, %{} is used
(c) If @{} overloading exists on a blessed hashref, @{} is used
y///r
The "/r" flag, which was added to "s///" in 5.13.2, has been extended
to the "y///" operator.
It causes it to perform the substitution on a copy of its operand,
returning that copy instead of a character count.
New global variable "${^GLOBAL_PHASE}"
A new global variable, "${^GLOBAL_PHASE}", has been added to allow
introspection of the current phase of the perl interpreter. It's
explained in detail in "${^GLOBAL_PHASE}" in perlvar and "BEGIN,
UNITCHECK, CHECK, INIT and END" in perlmod.
Unicode Version 6.0 is now supported (mostly)
Perl comes with the Unicode 6.0 data base updated with Corrigendum #8
<http://www.unicode.org/versions/corrigendum8.html>, with one exception
noted below. See <http://unicode.org/versions/Unicode6.0.0> for
details on the new release. Perl does not support any Unicode
provisional properties, including the new ones for this release, but
their database files are packaged with Perl.
Unicode 6.0 has chosen to use the name "BELL" for the character at
U+1F514, which is a symbol that looks like a bell, and used in Japanese
cell phones. This conflicts with the long-standing Perl usage of
having "BELL" mean the ASCII "BEL" character, U+0007. In Perl 5.14,
"\N{BELL}" will continue to mean U+0007, but its use will generate a
deprecated warning message, unless such warnings are turned off. The
new name for U+0007 in Perl will be "ALERT", which corresponds nicely
with the existing shorthand sequence for it, "\a". "\N{BEL}" will mean
U+0007, with no warning given. The character at U+1F514 will not have
a name in 5.14, but can be referred to by "\N{U+1F514}". The plan is
that in Perl 5.16, "\N{BELL}" will refer to U+1F514, and so all code
that uses "\N{BELL}" should convert by then to using "\N{ALERT}",
"\N{BEL}", or "\a" instead.
Improved support for custom OPs
Custom ops can now be registered with the new "custom_op_register" C
function and the "XOP" structure. This will make it easier to add new
properties of custom ops in the future. Two new properties have been
added already, "xop_class" and "xop_peep".
"xop_class" is one of the OA_*OP constants, and allows B and other
introspection mechanisms to work with custom ops that aren't BASEOPs.
"xop_peep" is a pointer to a function that will be called for ops of
this type from "Perl_rpeep".
See "Custom Operators" in perlguts and "Custom Operators" in perlapi
for more detail.
The old "PL_custom_op_names"/"PL_custom_op_descs" interface is still
supported but discouraged.
Incompatible Changes
Dereferencing typeglobs
If you assign a typeglob to a scalar variable:
$glob = *foo;
the glob that is copied to $glob is marked with a special flag
indicating that the glob is just a copy. This allows subsequent
assignments to $glob to overwrite the glob. The original glob, however,
is immutable.
Many Perl operators did not distinguish between these two types of
globs. This would result in strange behaviour in edge cases: "untie
$scalar" would do nothing if the last thing assigned to the scalar was
a glob (because it treated it as "untie *$scalar", which unties a
handle). Assignment to a glob slot (e.g., "(*$glob) = \@some_array")
would simply assign "\@some_array" to $glob.
To fix this, the "*{}" operator (including the *foo and *$foo forms)
has been modified to make a new immutable glob if its operand is a glob
copy. Various operators that make a distinction between globs and
scalars have been modified to treat only immutable globs as globs.
This causes an incompatible change in code that assigns a glob to the
return value of "*{}" when that operator was passed a glob copy. Take
the following code, for instance:
$glob = *foo;
*$glob = *bar;
The *$glob on the second line returns a new immutable glob. That new
glob is made an alias to *bar. Then it is discarded. So the second
assignment has no effect.
It also means that "tie $handle" will now tie $handle as a scalar, even
if it has had a glob assigned to it.
The upside to this incompatible change is that bugs [perl #77496]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77496>, [perl
#77502] <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77502>,
[perl #77508]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77508>, [perl
#77688] <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77688>, and
[perl #77812]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77812>, and maybe
others, too, have been fixed.
See <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77810> for even
more detail.
Clearing stashes
Stash list assignment "%foo:: = ()" used to make the stash anonymous
temporarily while it was being emptied. Consequently, any of its
subroutines referenced elsewhere would become anonymous (showing up as
"(unknown)" in "caller"). Now they retain their package names, such
that "caller" will return the original sub name if there is still a
reference to its typeglob, or "foo::__ANON__" otherwise [perl #79208]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=79208>.
Deprecations
"\N{BELL}" is deprecated
This is because Unicode is using that name for a different character.
See "Unicode Version 6.0 is now supported (mostly)" for more
explanation.
Performance Enhancements
· When an object has many weak references to it, freeing that object
can under some some circumstances take O(N^2) time to free (where N
is the number of references). The number of circumstances has been
reduced. [perl #75254]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75254>.
Modules and Pragmata
New Modules and Pragmata
· The following modules were added by the "Unicode::Collate" upgrade
from 0.63 to 0.67. See below for details.
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Big5"
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::GB2312"
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::JISX0208"
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Korean"
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Pinyin"
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Stroke"
Updated Modules and Pragmata
· "Archive::Extract" has been upgraded from 0.44 to 0.46
Resolves an issue with NetBSD-current and its new unzip executable.
· "Archive::Tar" has been upgraded from 1.68 to 1.72
This adds the ptargrep utility for using regular expressions
against the contents of files in a tar archive.
· "B" has been upgraded from 1.24 to 1.26.
It no longer crashes when taking apart a "y///" containing
characters outside the octet range or compiled in a "use utf8"
scope.
The size of the shared object has been reduced by about 40%, with
no reduction in functionality.
· "B::Deparse" has been upgraded from 0.99 to 1.01.
It fixes deparsing of "our" followed by a variable with funny
characters (as permitted under the "utf8" pragma) [perl #33752]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33752>.
· "CGI" has been upgraded from 3.49 to 3.50
This provides the following security fixes: the MIME boundary in
multipart_init is now random and improvements to the handling of
newlines embedded in header values.
The documentation for param_fetch() has been corrected and
clarified.
· "CPAN" has been upgraded from 1.94_61 to 1.94_62
· "CPANPLUS" has been upgraded from 0.9007 to 0.9010
Fixes for the SQLite source engine and resolving of issues with the
testsuite when run under local::lib and/or cpanminus
· "CPANPLUS::Dist::Build" has been upgraded from 0.48 to 0.50
· "Data::Dumper" has been upgraded from 2.129 to 2.130_01.
· "DynaLoader" has been upgraded from 1.10 to 1.11.
It fixes a buffer overflow when passed a very long file name.
· "ExtUtils::Constant" has been upgraded from 0.22 to 0.23.
The "AUTOLOAD" helper code generated by
"ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs" can now "croak" for missing
constants, or generate a complete "AUTOLOAD" subroutine in XS,
allowing simplification of many modules that use it. ("Fcntl",
"File::Glob", "GDBM_File", "I18N::Langinfo", "POSIX", "Socket")
"ExtUtils::Constant::ProxySubs" can now optionally push the names
of all constants onto the package's C{@EXPORT_OK}. This has been
used to replace less space-efficient code in "B", helping
considerably shrink the size of its shared object.
· "Fcntl" has been upgraded from 1.09 to 1.10.
· "File::Fetch" has been upgraded from 0.24 to 0.28
"HTTP::Lite" is now supported for 'http' scheme.
The "fetch" utility is supported on FreeBSD, NetBSD and Dragonfly
BSD for the "http" and "ftp" schemes.
· "File::Glob" has been upgraded from 1.09 to 1.10.
· "File::stat" has been upgraded from 1.03 to 1.04.
The "-x" and "-X" file test operators now work correctly under the
root user.
· "GDBM_File" has been upgraded from 1.11 to 1.12.
This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
· "Hash::Util" has been upgraded from 0.09 to 0.10.
· "Hash::Util::FieldHash" has been upgraded from 1.05 to 1.06.
· "I18N::Langinfo" has been upgraded from 0.06 to 0.07.
· "Locale::Maketext" has been upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17.
· "Math::BigInt" has been upgraded from 1.97 to 1.99_01.
· "Math::BigRat" has been upgraded from 0.26 to 0.26_01
· "Math::BigInt::FastCalc" has been upgraded from 0.22 to 0.24_01.
· "MIME::Base64" has been upgraded from 3.09 to 3.10
Includes new functions to calculate the length of encoded and
decoded base64 strings.
· "mro" has been upgraded from 1.04 to 1.05.
· "NDBM_File" has been upgraded from 1.09 to 1.10.
This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
· "ODBM_File" has been upgraded from 1.08 to 1.09.
This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
· "Opcode" has been upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17.
· "parent" has been upgraded from 0.223 to 0.224
· "Pod::Simple" has been upgraded from 3.14 to 3.15
Includes various fixes to "HTML" and "XHTML" handling.
· "POSIX" has been upgraded from 1.21 to 1.22.
· "re" has been upgraded from 0.13 to 0.14, for the sake of the new
"use re "/flags"" pragma.
· "Safe" has been upgraded from 2.28 to 2.29.
It adds &version::vxs::VCMP to the default share.
· "SDBM_File" has been upgraded from 1.07 to 1.08.
· "SelfLoader" has been upgraded from 1.17 to 1.18.
It now works in taint mode [perl #72062]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72062>.
· "Socket" has been upgraded from 1.90 to 1.91.
· "Storable" has been upgraded from 2.22 to 2.24
Includes performance improvement for overloaded classes.
· "Sys::Hostname" has been upgraded from 1.13 to 1.14.
· "Unicode::Collate" has been upgraded from 0.63 to 0.67
This release newly adds locales "ja" "ko" and "zh" and its variants
( "zh__big5han", "zh__gb2312han", "zh__pinyin", "zh__stroke" ).
Supported UCA_Version 22 for Unicode 6.0.0.
The following modules have been added:
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Big5" for "zh__big5han" which makes
tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's big5han
ordering.
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::GB2312" for "zh__gb2312han" which makes
tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's
gb2312han ordering.
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::JISX0208" which makes tailoring of 6355
kanji (CJK Unified Ideographs) in the JIS X 0208 order.
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Korean" which makes tailoring of CJK
Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's Korean ordering.
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Pinyin" for "zh__pinyin" which makes
tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's pinyin
ordering.
"Unicode::Collate::CJK::Stroke" for "zh__stroke" which makes
tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's stroke
ordering.
Documentation
perlvar reorders the variables and groups them by topic. Each variable
introduced after Perl 5.000 notes the first version in which it is
available. perlvar also has a new section for deprecated variables to
note when they were removed.
New Documentation
perlpodstyle
New style guide for POD documentation, split mostly from the NOTES
section of the pod2man man page.
( This was added to "v5.13.6" but was not documented with that release
).
Changes to Existing Documentation
· Array and hash slices in scalar context are now documented in
perldata.
· perlform and perllocale have been corrected to state that "use
locale" affects formats.
Diagnostics
New Diagnostics
· "Using !~ with %s doesn't make sense": This message was actually
added in 5.13.2, but was omitted from perldelta. It now applies
also to the "y///" operator, and has been documented.
Utility Changes
ptargrep
· ptargrep is a utility to apply pattern matching to the contents of
files in a tar archive. It comes with "Archive::Tar".
Testing
· The new t/mro/isa_aliases.t has been added, which tests that
"*Foo::ISA = *Bar::ISA" works properly.
· t/mro/isarev.t has been added, which tests that "PL_isarev"
(accessible at the Perl level via "mro::get_isarev") is updated
properly.
· t/run/switchd-78586.t has been added, which tests that [perl
#78586] <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78586>
has been fixed (related to line numbers in the debugger).
Platform Support
Platform-Specific Notes
Windows
Directory handles are now properly cloned when threads are created.
In perl 5.13.6, child threads simply stopped inheriting directory
handles. In previous versions, threads would share handles,
resulting in crashes.
Support for building with Visual C++ 2010 is now underway, but is
not yet complete. See README.win32 for more details.
VMS Record-oriented files (record format variable or variable with
fixed control) opened for write by the perlio layer will now be
line buffered to prevent the introduction of spurious line breaks
whenever the perlio buffer fills up.
Internal Changes
· "lex_start" has been added to the API, but is considered
experimental.
· A new "parse_block" function has been added to the API [perl
#78222] <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78222>.
· A new, experimental API has been added for accessing the internal
structure that Perl uses for "%^H". See the functions beginning
with "cophh_" in perlapi.
· A stash can now have a list of effective names in addition to its
usual name. The first effective name can be accessed via the
"HvENAME" macro, which is now the recommended name to use in MRO
linearisations ("HvNAME" being a fallback if there is no
"HvENAME").
These names are added and deleted via "hv_ename_add" and
"hv_ename_delete". These two functions are not part of the API.
· The way the parser handles labels has been cleaned up and
refactored. As a result, the "newFOROP()" constructor function no
longer takes a parameter stating what label is to go in the state
op.
· The "newWHILEOP()" and "newFOROP()" functions no longer accept a
line number as a parameter.
· A new "parse_barestmt()" function has been added, for parsing a
statement without a label.
· A new "parse_label()" function has been added, that parses a
statement label, separate from statements.
· The "CvSTASH()" macro can now only be used as an rvalue.
"CvSTASH_set()" has been added to replace assignment to
"CvSTASH()". This is to ensure that backreferences are handled
properly. These macros are not part of the API.
· The "op_scope()" and "op_lvalue()" functions have been added to the
API, but are considered experimental.
Selected Bug Fixes
· The "parse_stmt" C function added in earlier in the 5.13.x series
has been fixed to work with statements ending with "}" [perl
#78222] <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78222>.
· The "parse_fullstmt" C function added in 5.13.5 has been fixed to
work when called while an expression is being parsed.
· Characters in the Latin-1 non-ASCII range (0x80 to 0xFF) used not
to match themselves if the string happened to be UTF8-encoded
internally, the regular expression was not, and the character in
the regular expression was inside a repeated group (e.g.,
"Encode::decode_utf8("\303\200") =~ /(\xc0)+/") [perl #78464]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78464>.
· The "(?d)" regular expression construct now overrides a previous
"(?u)" or "use feature "unicode_string"" [perl #78508]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78508>.
· A memory leak in "do "file"", introduced in perl 5.13.6, has been
fixed [perl #78488]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78488>.
· Various bugs related to typeglob dereferencing have been fixed. See
"Dereferencing typeglobs", above.
· The "SvPVbyte" function available to XS modules now calls magic
before downgrading the SV, to avoid warnings about wide characters
[perl #72398]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72398>.
· The "=" operator used to ignore magic (e.g., tie methods) on its
right-hand side if the scalar happened to hold a typeglob. This
could happen if a typeglob was the last thing returned from or
assigned to a tied scalar [perl #77498]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77498>.
· "sprintf" was ignoring locales when called with constant arguments
[perl #78632]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78632>.
· A non-ASCII character in the Latin-1 range could match both a Posix
class, such as "[[:alnum:]]", and its inverse "[[:^alnum:]]". This
is now fixed for regular expressions compiled under the "u"
modifier. See ""use feature "unicode_strings"" now applies to more
regex matching". [perl #18281]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18281>.
· Concatenating long strings under "use encoding" no longer causes
perl to crash [perl #78674]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78674>.
· Typeglob assignments would crash if the glob's stash no longer
existed, so long as the glob assigned to was named 'ISA' or the
glob on either side of the assignment contained a subroutine.
· Calling "->import" on a class lacking an import method could
corrupt the stack, resulting in strange behaviour. For instance,
push @a, "foo", $b = bar->import;
would assign 'foo' to $b [perl #63790]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63790>.
· Creating an alias to a package when that package had been detached
from the symbol table would result in corrupted isa caches [perl
#77358] <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77358>.
· ".=" followed by "<>" or "readline" would leak memory if $/
contained characters beyond the octet range and the scalar assigned
to happened to be encoded as UTF8 internally [perl #72246]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72246>.
· The "recv" function could crash when called with the MSG_TRUNC flag
[perl #75082]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75082>.
· Evaluating a simple glob (like *a) was calling get-magic on the
glob, even when its contents were not being used [perl #78580]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78580>.
This bug was introduced in 5.13.2 and did not affect earlier perl
versions.
· Matching a Unicode character against an alternation containing
characters that happened to match continuation bytes in the
former's UTF8 representation ("qq{\x{30ab}} =~ /\xab|\xa9/") would
cause erroneous warnings [perl #70998]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70998>.
· "s///r" (added in 5.13.2) no longer leaks.
· The trie optimisation was not taking empty groups into account,
preventing 'foo' from matching "/\A(?:(?:)foo|bar|zot)\z/" [perl
#78356] <http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78356>.
· A pattern containing a "+" inside a lookahead would sometimes cause
an incorrect match failure in a global match (e.g., "/(?=(\S+))/g")
[perl #68564]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68564>.
· Iterating with "foreach" over an array returned by an lvalue sub
now works [perl #23790]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=23790>.
· $@ is now localised during calls to "binmode" to prevent action at
a distance [perl #78844]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78844>.
· "PL_isarev", which is accessible to Perl via "mro::get_isarev" is
now updated properly when packages are deleted or removed from the
@ISA of other classes. This allows many packages to be created and
deleted without causing a memory leak [perl #75176]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75176>.
· "undef *Foo::" and "undef *Foo::ISA" and "delete $package::{ISA}"
used not to update the internal isa caches if the stash or @ISA
array had a reference elsewhere. In fact, "undef *Foo::ISA" would
stop a new @Foo::ISA array from updating caches.
· @ISA arrays can now be shared between classes via "*Foo::ISA =
\@Bar::ISA" or "*Foo::ISA = *Bar::ISA" [perl #77238]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77238>.
· The parser no longer hangs when encountering certain Unicode
characters, such as U+387 [perl #74022]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74022>.
· "formline" no longer crashes when passed a tainted format picture.
It also taints $^A now if its arguments are tainted [perl #79138]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=79138>.
· A signal handler called within a signal handler could cause leaks
or double-frees. Now fixed. [perl #76248]
<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=76248>.
· When trying to report "Use of uninitialized value $Foo::BAR",
crashes could occur if the GLOB of the global variable causing the
warning has been detached from its original stash by, for example
"delete $::{'Foo::'}". This has been fixed by disabling the
reporting of variable names in the warning in those cases.
Obituary
Randy Kobes, creator of the kobesearch alternative to search.cpan.org
and contributor/maintainer to several core Perl toolchain modules,
passed away on September 18, 2010 after a battle with lung cancer. His
contributions to the Perl community will be missed.
Acknowledgements
Perl 5.13.7 represents approximately one month of development since
Perl 5.13.6 and contains 73100 lines of changes across 518 files from
39 authors and committers:
Abhijit Menon-Sen, Abigail, Ben Morrow, Chas. J. Owens IV, Chris
'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, David Golden, David Mitchell, Father
Chrysostomos, Fingle Nark, Florian Ragwitz, George Greer, Grant McLean,
H.Merijn Brand, Ian Goodacre, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse
Vincent, Karl Williamson, Lubomir Rintel, Marty Pauley, Moritz Lenz,
Nicholas Clark, Nicolas Kaiser, Niko Tyni, Peter John Acklam, Rafael
Garcia-Suarez, Shlomi Fish, Steffen Mueller, Steve Hay, Tatsuhiko
Miyagawa, Tim Bunce, Todd Rinaldo, Tom Christiansen, Tom Hukins, Tony
Cook, Yves Orton, Zefram and brian d foy
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.
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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