Section 1: user commands and tools
NAME perl5136delta – what is new for perl v5.13.6 DESCRIPTION This 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 modifiers A caret…
NAME perl5135delta – what is new for perl v5.13.5 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements Adjacent pairs of nextstate opcodes are now optimized away Previously,…
NAME perl5134delta – what is new for perl v5.13.4 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements srand() now returns the seed This allows programs that need…
NAME perl5133delta – what is new for perl v5.13.3 DESCRIPTION This 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 octals There is a new escape sequence, "\o",…
NAME perl5132delta – what is new for perl v5.13.2 DESCRIPTION This 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 Changes localised tied scalars are tied again. The change in behaviour…
NAME perl5131delta – what is new for perl v5.13.1 DESCRIPTION This 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
NAME perl51311delta – what is new for perl v5.13.11 DESCRIPTION This 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. Security User-defined regular expression properties Perl no longer allows a tainted regular…
NAME perl51310delta – what is new for perl v5.13.10 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements The new regular expression modifiers available in suffix form Various…
NAME perl5130delta – what is new for perl v5.13.0 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements safe signals optimization Signal dispatch has been moved from the…
NAME perl5125delta – what is new for perl v5.12.5 DESCRIPTION This 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. Security Encode decode_xs n-byte heap-overflow (CVE-2011-2939) A bug in "Encode" could, on…
NAME perl5124delta – what is new for perl v5.12.4 DESCRIPTION This 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 Changes…
NAME perl5123delta – what is new for perl v5.12.3 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl5122delta – what is new for perl v5.12.2 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl5121delta – what is new for perl v5.12.1 DESCRIPTION This 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 Changes There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.0. If any…
NAME perl5120delta – what is new for perl v5.12.0 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements New package…
NAME perl5115delta – what is new for perl v5.11.5 DESCRIPTION This 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 Enhancements 32-bit limit on substr arguments removed The 32-bit limit on…
NAME perl5114delta – what is new for perl v5.11.4 DESCRIPTION This 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 Changes Version number formats Acceptable version number formats have been formalized…
NAME perl5113delta – what is new for perl v5.11.3 DESCRIPTION This 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 Changes Filehandles are blessed directly into IO::Handle, as FileHandle is…
NAME perl5112delta – what is new for perl v5.11.2 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.11.1 release and the 5.11.2 release. Core Enhancements qr overloading It 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….
NAME perl5111delta – what is new for perl v5.11.1 DESCRIPTION This 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…