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NAME perl584delta – what is new for perl v5.8.4 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.8.3 release and the 5.8.4 release. Incompatible Changes Many 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…
NAME perl583delta – what is new for perl v5.8.3 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl582delta – what is new for perl v5.8.2 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl581delta – what is new for perl v5.8.1 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl573delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.3 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl572delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.2 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl571delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.1 DESCRIPTION This 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…
NAME perl570delta – what’s new for perl v5.7.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 release. Security Vulnerability Closed A 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…
NAME perl56delta – what’s new for perl v5.6.0 DESCRIPTION This document describes differences between the 5.005 release and the 5.6.0 release. Core Enhancements Interpreter cloning, threads, and concurrency Perl 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…
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…