Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perl5202delta – what is new for perl v5.20.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.20.1 release and the 5.20.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.20.0, first read perl5201delta, which describes differences between 5.20.0 and 5.20.1. Incompatible Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.1. If any…
NAME perl5201delta – what is new for perl v5.20.1 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.20.0 release and the 5.20.1 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. Incompatible Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.0. If any…
NAME perl5200delta – what is new for perl v5.20.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.18.0 release and the 5.20.0 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. Core Enhancements Experimental Subroutine signatures Declarative syntax to unwrap argument list into…
NAME perl5184delta – what is new for perl v5.18.4 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.18.4 release and the 5.18.2 release. Please note: This document ignores perl 5.18.3, a broken release which existed for a few hours only. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.18.1, first read perl5182delta, which describes…
NAME perl5183delta – what is new for perl v5.18.3 DESCRIPTION This 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 Pragmata Updated Modules and Pragmata • Digest::SHA has been upgraded…
NAME perl5182delta – what is new for perl v5.18.2 DESCRIPTION This 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 Pragmata Updated Modules and Pragmata • B has been upgraded…
NAME perl5181delta – what is new for perl v5.18.1 DESCRIPTION This 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 Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.18.0 If any…
NAME perl5180delta – what is new for perl v5.18.0 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements New mechanism for experimental features Newly-added experimental features will now…
NAME perl5163delta – what is new for perl v5.16.3 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements No changes since 5.16.0. Security This release contains one major…
NAME perl5162delta – what is new for perl v5.16.2 DESCRIPTION This 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 Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.16.0 If any…
NAME perl5161delta – what is new for perl v5.16.1 DESCRIPTION This 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. Security an off-by-two error in Scalar-List-Util has been fixed The bugfix was…
NAME perl5160delta – what is new for perl v5.16.0 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl5144delta – what is new for perl v5.14.4 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements No changes since 5.14.0. Security This release contains one major,…
NAME perl5143delta – what is new for perl v5.14.3 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements No changes since 5.14.0. Security Digest unsafe use of eval…
NAME perl5142delta – what is new for perl v5.14.2 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements No changes since 5.14.0. Security File::Glob::bsd_glob() memory error with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC…
NAME perl5141delta – 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…
NAME perl5140delta – what is new for perl v5.14.0 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl5139delta – what is new for perl v5.13.9 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements New regular expression modifier /a The "/a" regular expression modifier…
NAME perl5138delta – what is new for perl v5.13.8 DESCRIPTION This 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::unimport The syntax "-d:foo" was extended in 5.6.1…
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…