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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…
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…