Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perl561delta – what’s new for perl v5.6.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.005 release and the 5.6.1 release. Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 This section contains a summary of the changes between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.6.1 release. More details about the changes mentioned here may be found in…
NAME perldelta – what is new for perl v5.30.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.28.0 release and the 5.30.0 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.26.0, first read perl5280delta, which describes differences between 5.26.0 and 5.28.0. Notice sv_utf8_(downgrade|decode) are no longer marked as experimental. [perl #133788] <https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133788>. Core…
NAME perl5282delta – what is new for perl v5.28.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.28.1 release and the 5.28.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.28.0, first read perl5281delta, which describes differences between 5.28.0 and 5.28.1. Incompatible Changes Any set of digits in the Common script are legal…
NAME perl5281delta – what is new for perl v5.28.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.28.0 release and the 5.28.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.26.0, first read perl5280delta, which describes differences between 5.26.0 and 5.28.0. Security [CVE-2018-18311] Integer overflow leading to buffer overflow and segmentation fault Integer…
NAME perl5280delta – what is new for perl v5.28.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.26.0 release and the 5.28.0 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.0, first read perl5260delta, which describes differences between 5.24.0 and 5.26.0. Core Enhancements Unicode 10.0 is supported A list of changes is at…
NAME perl5263delta – what is new for perl v5.26.3 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.26.2 release and the 5.26.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.26.1, first read perl5262delta, which describes differences between 5.26.1 and 5.26.2. Security [CVE-2018-12015] Directory traversal in module Archive::Tar By default, Archive::Tar doesn’t allow…
NAME perl5262delta – what is new for perl v5.26.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.26.1 release and the 5.26.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.26.0, first read perl5261delta, which describes differences between 5.26.0 and 5.26.1. Security [CVE-2018-6797] heap-buffer-overflow (WRITE of size 1) in S_regatom (regcomp.c) A crafted…
NAME perl5261delta – what is new for perl v5.26.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.26.0 release and the 5.26.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.0, first read perl5260delta, which describes differences between 5.24.0 and 5.26.0. Security [CVE-2017-12837] Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler Compiling certain regular…
NAME perl5260delta – what is new for perl v5.26.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes the differences between the 5.24.0 release and the 5.26.0 release. Notice This release includes three updates with widespread effects: • "." no longer in @INC For security reasons, the current directory (".") is no longer included by default at the end of…
NAME perl5244delta – what is new for perl v5.24.4 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.24.3 release and the 5.24.4 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.2, first read perl5243delta, which describes differences between 5.24.2 and 5.24.3. Security [CVE-2018-6797] heap-buffer-overflow (WRITE of size 1) in S_regatom (regcomp.c) A crafted…
NAME perl5243delta – what is new for perl v5.24.3 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.24.2 release and the 5.24.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.1, first read perl5242delta, which describes differences between 5.24.1 and 5.24.2. Security [CVE-2017-12837] Heap buffer overflow in regular expression compiler Compiling certain regular…
NAME perl5242delta – what is new for perl v5.24.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.24.1 release and the 5.24.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.24.0, first read perl5241delta, which describes differences between 5.24.0 and 5.24.1. Security Improved handling of ‘.’ in @INC in base.pm The handling of…
NAME perl5241delta – what is new for perl v5.24.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.24.0 release and the 5.24.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.22.0, first read perl5240delta, which describes differences between 5.22.0 and 5.24.0. Security -Di switch is now required for PerlIO debugging output Previously PerlIO…
NAME perl5240delta – what is new for perl v5.24.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes the differences between the 5.22.0 release and the 5.24.0 release. Core Enhancements Postfix dereferencing is no longer experimental Using the "postderef" and "postderef_qq" features no longer emits a warning. Existing code that disables the "experimental::postderef" warning category that they previously used will…
NAME perl5224delta – what is new for perl v5.22.4 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.22.3 release and the 5.22.4 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.22.2, first read perl5223delta, which describes differences between 5.22.2 and 5.22.3. Security Improved handling of ‘.’ in @INC in base.pm The handling of…
NAME perl5223delta – what is new for perl v5.22.3 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.22.2 release and the 5.22.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.22.1, first read perl5222delta, which describes differences between 5.22.1 and 5.22.2. Security -Di switch is now required for PerlIO debugging output Previously PerlIO…
NAME perl5222delta – what is new for perl v5.22.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.22.1 release and the 5.22.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.22.0, first read perl5221delta, which describes differences between 5.22.0 and 5.22.1. Security Fix out of boundary access in Win32 path handling This is…
NAME perl5221delta – what is new for perl v5.22.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.22.0 release and the 5.22.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.20.0, first read perl5220delta, which describes differences between 5.20.0 and 5.22.0. Incompatible Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.0 other than…
NAME perl5220delta – what is new for perl v5.22.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.20.0 release and the 5.22.0 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.18.0, first read perl5200delta, which describes differences between 5.18.0 and 5.20.0. Core Enhancements New bitwise operators A new experimental facility has been added…
NAME perl5203delta – what is new for perl v5.20.3 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.20.2 release and the 5.20.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.20.1, first read perl5202delta, which describes differences between 5.20.1 and 5.20.2. Incompatible Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.2. If any…