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perl591delta – what is new for perl v5.9.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.9.0 and the 5.9.1 development releases. See perl590delta for the differences between 5.8.0 and 5.9.0. Incompatible Changessubstr() lvalues are no longer fixed-lengthThe lvalues returned by the three argument form of substr() used to be a “fixed length window” on the original…
perl590delta – what is new for perl v5.9.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.0 release and the 5.9.0 release. Incompatible ChangesHash RandomisationMainly due to security reasons, the “random ordering” of hashes has been made even more random. Previously while the order of hash elements from keys(), values(), and each() was essentially random, it was…
perl58delta – what is new for perl v5.8.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.8.0 release. Many of the bug fixes in 5.8.0 were already seen in the 5.6.1 maintenance release since the two releases were kept closely coordinated (while 5.8.0 was still called 5.7.something). Changes that were integrated into the…
perl589delta – what is new for perl v5.8.9 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.8 release and the 5.8.9 release. NoticeThe 5.8.9 release will be the last significant release of the 5.8.x series. Any future releases of 5.8.x will likely only be to deal with security issues, and platform build failures. Hence you should look…
perl588delta – what is new for perl v5.8.8 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.7 release and the 5.8.8 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.8.7. If any exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. Core Enhancements• "chdir", "chmod" and "chown" can now work on filehandles as well as filenames, if…
perl587delta – what is new for perl v5.8.7 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.6 release and the 5.8.7 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes incompatible with 5.8.6. Core EnhancementsUnicode Character Database 4.1.0The copy of the Unicode Character Database included in Perl 5.8 has been updated to 4.1.0 from 4.0.1. See <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.1.0/#NotableChanges> for the notable…
perl586delta – what is new for perl v5.8.6 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.5 release and the 5.8.6 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes incompatible with 5.8.5. Core EnhancementsThe perl interpreter is now more tolerant of UTF-16-encoded scripts. On Win32, Perl can now use non-IFS compatible LSPs, which allows Perl to work in conjunction…
perl585delta – what is new for perl v5.8.5 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.4 release and the 5.8.5 release. Incompatible ChangesThere are no changes incompatible with 5.8.4. Core EnhancementsPerl’s regular expression engine now contains support for matching on the intersection of two Unicode character classes. You can also now refer to user-defined character classes…
perl584delta – what is new for perl v5.8.4 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.3 release and the 5.8.4 release. Incompatible ChangesMany minor bugs have been fixed. Scripts which happen to rely on previously erroneous behaviour will consider these fixes as incompatible changes :-) You are advised to perform sufficient acceptance testing on this release…
perl583delta – what is new for perl v5.8.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.2 release and the 5.8.3 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.6.1, first read the perl58delta, which describes differences between 5.6.0 and 5.8.0, and the perl581delta and perl582delta, which describe differences between 5.8.0, 5.8.1 and 5.8.2…
perl582delta – what is new for perl v5.8.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.1 release and the 5.8.2 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.6.1, first read the perl58delta, which describes differences between 5.6.0 and 5.8.0, and the perl581delta, which describes differences between 5.8.0 and 5.8.1. Incompatible ChangesFor threaded…
perl581delta – what is new for perl v5.8.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.8.0 release and the 5.8.1 release. If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.6.1, first read the perl58delta, which describes differences between 5.6.0 and 5.8.0. In case you are wondering about 5.6.1, it was bug-fix-wise rather identical to…
perl573delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.3 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.7.2 release and the 5.7.3 release. (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 release, see perl570delta. To view the differences between the 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see perl571delta. To view the differences between the 5.7.1 release…
perl572delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.2 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.7.1 release and the 5.7.2 release. (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 release, see perl570delta. To view the differences between the 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see perl571delta.) Security Vulnerability Closed(This change was already made in…
perl571delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release. (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 release, see perl570delta.) Security Vulnerability Closed(This change was already made in 5.7.0 but bears repeating here.) A potential security vulnerability in the optional suidperl component…
perl570delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 release. Security Vulnerability ClosedA potential security vulnerability in the optional suidperl component of Perl has been identified. suidperl is neither built nor installed by default. As of September the 2nd, 2000, the only known vulnerable platform is…
perl56delta – what’s new for perl v5.6.0 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.005 release and the 5.6.0 release. Core EnhancementsInterpreter cloning, threads, and concurrencyPerl 5.6.0 introduces the beginnings of support for running multiple interpreters concurrently in different threads. In conjunction with the perl_clone() API call, which can be used to selectively duplicate the state…
perl561delta – what’s new for perl v5.6.1 DescriptionThis document describes differences between the 5.005 release and the 5.6.1 release. Summary of changes between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1This 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 the Changes files…
perldelta – what is new for perl v5.30.0 DescriptionThis 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. Noticesv_utf8_(downgrade|decode) are no longer marked as experimental. [perl #133788] <https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=133788>. Core EnhancementsLimited variable length…
perl5282delta – what is new for perl v5.28.2 DescriptionThis 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 ChangesAny set of digits in the Common script are legal in a script…