perl5132delta – what is new for perl v5.13.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.2 release and the 5.13.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.10, first read perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10 and 5.12. Incompatible Changeslocalised tied scalars are tied again.The change in behaviour in 5.13.1 of localising…
perl5131delta – what is new for perl v5.13.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.0 release and the 5.13.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.10, first read perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10 and 5.12. Incompatible Changes\cXThe backslash-c construct was designed as a way of specifying non-printable characters, but…
perl51311delta – what is new for perl v5.13.11 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.10 release and the 5.13.11 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.9, first read perl5139delta, which describes differences between 5.13.9 and 5.13.10. SecurityUser-defined regular expression propertiesPerl no longer allows a tainted regular expression to invoke a…
perl51310delta – what is new for perl v5.13.10 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.13.9 release and the 5.13.10 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.8, first read perl5139delta, which describes differences between 5.13.8 and 5.13.9. Core EnhancementsThe new regular expression modifiers available in suffix formVarious releases of the 5.13.x…
perl5130delta – what is new for perl v5.13.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.12.0 release and the 5.13.0 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. Core Enhancementssafe signals optimizationSignal dispatch has been moved from the runloop into control ops….
perl5125delta – what is new for perl v5.12.5 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.12.4 release and the 5.12.5 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.3, first read perl5124delta, which describes differences between 5.12.3 and 5.12.4. SecurityEncode decode_xs n-byte heap-overflow (CVE-2011-2939)A bug in "Encode" could, on certain inputs, cause the…
perl5124delta – what is new for perl v5.12.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.12.3 release and the 5.12.4 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.2, first read perl5123delta, which describes differences between 5.12.2 and 5.12.3. The major changes made in 5.12.0 are described in perl5120delta. Incompatible ChangesThere are no…
perl5123delta – what is new for perl v5.12.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.12.2 release and the 5.12.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.1, first read perl5122delta, which describes differences between 5.12.1 and 5.12.2. The major changes made in 5.12.0 are described in perl5120delta. Incompatible Changes There are…
perl5122delta – what is new for perl v5.12.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.12.1 release and the 5.12.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier major version, such as 5.10.1, first read perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10.1 and 5.12.0, as well as perl5121delta, which describes earlier changes in the 5.12 stable release…
perl5121delta – what is new for perl v5.12.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.12.0 release and the 5.12.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.10.1, first read perl5120delta, which describes differences between 5.10.1 and 5.12.0. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.0. If any incompatibilities with 5.12.0…
perl5120delta – what is new for perl v5.12.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.12.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.12.0 are already included in the 5.10.1 maintenance release. You can see the list of those changes in the 5.10.1 release notes (perl5101delta). Core EnhancementsNew package NAME VERSION syntaxThis…
perl5115delta – what is new for perl v5.11.5 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.11.4 release and the 5.11.5 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.11.3, first read perl5114delta, which describes differences between 5.11.3 and 5.11.4. Core Enhancements32-bit limit on substr arguments removedThe 32-bit limit on "substr" arguments has now…
perl5114delta – what is new for perl v5.11.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.11.3 release and the 5.11.4 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.11.2, first read perl5113delta, which describes differences between 5.11.2 and 5.11.3. Incompatible ChangesVersion number formatsAcceptable version number formats have been formalized into “strict” and “lax”…
perl5113delta – what is new for perl v5.11.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.11.2 release and the 5.11.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.11.1, first read the perl5112delta, which describes differences between 5.11.1 and 5.11.2 Incompatible ChangesFilehandles are blessed directly into IO::Handle, as FileHandle is merely a wrapper…
perl5112delta – what is new for perl v5.11.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.11.1 release and the 5.11.2 release. Core Enhancementsqr overloadingIt is now possible to overload the "qr//" operator, that is, conversion to regexp, like it was already possible to overload conversion to boolean, string or number of objects. It is invoked when…
perl5111delta – what is new for perl v5.11.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.11.0 release and the 5.11.1 release. Incompatible Changes• The boolkeys op moved to the group of hash ops. This breaks binary compatibility. • "\s" "\w" and "\d" once again have the semantics they had in Perl 5.8.x.Core EnhancementsAdd package NAME VERSION…
perl5110delta – what is new for perl v5.11.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.11.0 development release. Incompatible ChangesUnicode interpretation of \w, \d, \s, and the POSIX character classes redefined.Previous versions of Perl tried to map POSIX style character class definitions onto Unicode property names so that patterns would “dwim” when…
perl5101delta – what is new for perl v5.10.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.10.0 release and the 5.10.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.8.8, first read the perl5100delta, which describes differences between 5.8.8 and 5.10.0 Incompatible ChangesSwitch statement changesThe handling of complex expressions by the "given"/"when" switch statement…
perl5100delta – what is new for perl 5.10.0 DescriptionThis document describes the differences between the 5.8.8 release and the 5.10.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.10.0 were already seen in the 5.8.X maintenance releases; they are not duplicated here and are documented in the set of man pages named perl58[1-8]?delta. Core EnhancementsThe feature…
perl5005delta – what’s new for perl5.005 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.004 release and this one. About the new versioning systemPerl is now developed on two tracks: a maintenance track that makes small, safe updates to released production versions with emphasis on compatibility; and a development track that pursues more aggressive evolution. Maintenance releases…