perl5183delta – what is new for perl v5.18.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.18.2 release and the 5.18.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.18.1, first read perl5182delta, which describes differences between 5.18.1 and 5.18.2. Modules and PragmataUpdated Modules and Pragmata• Digest::SHA has been upgraded from 5.84_01 to 5.84_02….
perl5182delta – what is new for perl v5.18.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.18.1 release and the 5.18.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.18.0, first read perl5181delta, which describes differences between 5.18.0 and 5.18.1. Modules and PragmataUpdated Modules and Pragmata• B has been upgraded from version 1.42_01 to…
perl5181delta – what is new for perl v5.18.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.18.0 release and the 5.18.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.16.0, first read perl5180delta, which describes differences between 5.16.0 and 5.18.0. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.18.0 If any exist, they are…
perl5180delta – what is new for perl v5.18.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the v5.16.0 release and the v5.18.0 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as v5.14.0, first read perl5160delta, which describes differences between v5.14.0 and v5.16.0. Core EnhancementsNew mechanism for experimental featuresNewly-added experimental features will now require this incantation: no…
perl5163delta – what is new for perl v5.16.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.16.2 release and the 5.16.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.16.1, first read perl5162delta, which describes differences between 5.16.1 and 5.16.2. Core EnhancementsNo changes since 5.16.0. SecurityThis release contains one major and a number of…
perl5162delta – what is new for perl v5.16.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.16.1 release and the 5.16.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.16.0, first read perl5161delta, which describes differences between 5.16.0 and 5.16.1. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.16.0 If any exist, they are…
perl5161delta – what is new for perl v5.16.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.16.0 release and the 5.16.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.14.0, first read perl5160delta, which describes differences between 5.14.0 and 5.16.0. Securityan off-by-two error in Scalar-List-Util has been fixedThe bugfix was in Scalar-List-Util 1.23_04, and…
perl5160delta – what is new for perl v5.16.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.14.0 release and the 5.16.0 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. Some bug fixes in this release have been backported to later releases of 5.14.x….
perl5144delta – what is new for perl v5.14.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.14.3 release and the 5.14.4 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 EnhancementsNo changes since 5.14.0. SecurityThis release contains one major, and medium, and a…
perl5143delta – what is new for perl v5.14.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.14.2 release and the 5.14.3 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 EnhancementsNo changes since 5.14.0. SecurityDigest unsafe use of eval (CVE-2011-3597)The "Digest->new()" function did…
perl5142delta – what is new for perl v5.14.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.14.1 release and the 5.14.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.14.0, first read perl5141delta, which describes differences between 5.14.0 and 5.14.1. Core EnhancementsNo changes since 5.14.0. SecurityFile::Glob::bsd_glob() memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC (CVE-2011-2728).Calling "File::Glob::bsd_glob" with the…
perl5141delta – what is new for perl v5.14.1 DescriptionThis 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 EnhancementsNo changes since 5.14.0. SecurityNo changes since 5.14.0. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes…
perl5140delta – what is new for perl v5.14.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.12.0 release and the 5.14.0 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.10.0, first read perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10.0 and 5.12.0. Some of the bug fixes in this release have been backported to subsequent releases…
perl5139delta – what is new for perl v5.13.9 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.8 release and the 5.13.9 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.7, first read perl5138delta, which describes differences between 5.13.7 and 5.13.8. Core EnhancementsNew regular expression modifier /aThe "/a" regular expression modifier restricts "\s" to match…
perl5138delta – what is new for perl v5.13.8 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.7 release and the 5.13.8 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.6, first read perl5137delta, which describes differences between 5.13.6 and 5.13.7. Core Enhancements-d:-foo calls Devel::foo::unimportThe syntax "-d:foo" was extended in 5.6.1 to make "-d:foo=bar" equivalent…
perl5137delta – what is new for perl v5.13.7 DescriptionThis 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 EnhancementsSingle term prototypeThe "+" prototype is a special alternative to "$" that will…
perl5136delta – what is new for perl v5.13.6 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.5 release and the 5.13.6 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.4, first read perl5135delta, which describes differences between 5.13.4 and 5.13.5. Core Enhancements(?^…) regex construct added to signify default modifiersA caret (also called a “circumflex…
perl5135delta – what is new for perl v5.13.5 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.4 release and the 5.13.5 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.3, first read perl5134delta, which describes differences between 5.13.3 and 5.13.4. Core EnhancementsAdjacent pairs of nextstate opcodes are now optimized awayPreviously, in code such as…
perl5134delta – what is new for perl v5.13.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.4 release and the 5.13.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.2, first read perl5133delta, which describes differences between 5.13.2 and 5.13.3. Core Enhancementssrand() now returns the seedThis allows programs that need to have repeatable results…
perl5133delta – what is new for perl v5.13.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.3 release and the 5.13.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.1, first read perl5132delta, which describes differences between 5.13.1 and 5.13.2. Core Enhancements\o{…} for octalsThere is a new escape sequence, "\o", in double-quote-like contexts. It…