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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…
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…