=head1 Notice
-The 5.8.9 will be the last significant release of the 5.8.x
+The 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 to
migrating to 5.10.x, if you have not started already.
backtick command, successful call to C<wait> or C<waitpid>, or from the
C<system> operator. See L<perlvar> for details. (Contributed by Gisle Aas.)
-=item ${^UTF8CACHE}
+=item C<${^UTF8CACHE}>
This variable controls the state of the internal UTF-8 offset caching code.
1 for on (the default), 0 for off, -1 to debug the caching code by checking
=head2 C<readpipe> is now overridable
The built-in function C<readpipe> is now overridable. Overriding it permits
-also to override its operator counterpart, C<qx//> (a.k.a. C<``>).
+also to override its operator counterpart, C<qx//> (also known as C<``>).
=head2 simple exception handling macros
=item *
-provides new PAD related abstraction macros C<B::NV::COP_SEQ_RANGE_LOW>,
+provides new pad related abstraction macros C<B::NV::COP_SEQ_RANGE_LOW>,
C<B::NV::COP_SEQ_RANGE_HIGH>, C<B::NV::PARENT_PAD_INDEX>,
C<B::NV::PARENT_FAKELEX_FLAGS>, which hides the difference in storage in
5.10.0 and later.
=item *
C<B::BM::PREVIOUS> returns now C<U32>, not C<U16>.
-C<B::CV::START> and C<B:CV::ROOT> return now NULL on an XSUB,
+C<B::CV::START> and C<B:CV::ROOT> return now C<NULL> on an XSUB,
C<B::CV::XSUB> and C<B::CV::XSUBANY> return 0 on a non-XSUB.
=back
=item *
-new option B<-src> causes the rendering of each statement (starting with
+new option C<-src> causes the rendering of each statement (starting with
the nextstate OP) to be preceded by the first line of source code that
generates it.
=item *
-new option B<-stash="somepackage">, C<require>s "somepackage", and then renders
+new option C<-stash="somepackage">, C<require>s "somepackage", and then renders
each function defined in its namespace.
=item *
=item *
-C<Devel::DProf> upgraded to version 20080331.00.
+C<Devel::DProf> upgraded to version 20080331.00
=item *
=item *
-this fixes an optimistic use of C<gethostbyname>.
+this fixes an optimistic use of C<gethostbyname>
=back
=item *
-added capability to dequeue multiple items at once
+added capability to dequeue multiple items at once.
=item *
=item *
-added new function C<GetCurrentProcessId> which returns the regular Window
+added new function C<GetCurrentProcessId> which returns the regular Windows
process identifier of the current process, even when called from within a fork.
=back
=item *
-The debugger should now correctly find tty the device on OS X 10.5 and VMS.
+The debugger should now correctly find tty the device on OS X 10.5 and VMS
+when the program C<fork>s.
=item *
=item *
now attempts to deal sensibly with the difference in path implications
-between C<""> and C<<E<lt>E<gt>>> quoting in C<#include> statements.
+between C<""> and C<< E<lt>E<gt> >> quoting in C<#include> statements.
=item *
Perl Regular Expressions.
L<perlrun> is updated to clarify on the hash seed I<PERL_HASH_SEED>. Also more
-information in options B<-x> and B<-u>.
+information in options C<-x> and C<-u>.
L<perlsub> example is updated to use a lexical variable for C<opendir> syntax.
[RT #40708]
A new entry has been added to the MAGIC vtable - C<svt_local>. This is used
-when copying magic to the new value during C<local>. This allows problems
-with localising shared variables.
+when copying magic to the new value during C<local>, allowing certain problems
+with localising shared variables to be resolved.
For the implementation details, see L<perlguts/Magic Virtual Tables>.
Under 5.8.8 and earlier:
- $ perl -e 'use strict; eval "use foo bar" or die $@'
+ $ perl5.8.8 -e 'use strict; eval "use foo bar" or die $@'
Can't locate foo.pm in @INC (@INC contains: ... .) at (eval 1) line 2.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at (eval 1) line 2.
Under 5.8.9 and later:
- $ ./perl -Ilib -e 'use strict; eval "use foo bar" or die $@'
+ $ perl5.8.9 -e 'use strict; eval "use foo bar" or die $@'
Bareword "bar" not allowed while "strict subs" in use at (eval 1) line 1.
This may cause problems with programs that parse the error message and rely
=item *
-Fix fcntl locking capability test in F<configure.com>.
+Fix C<fcntl()> locking capability test in F<configure.com>.
=item *
=item *
The process id is no longer truncated to 16 bits on some Windows platforms
-( L<http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72443> )
+( http://bugs.activestate.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72443 )
=item *
-Fixed bug RT #54828 in F<perlio.c> when calling C<binmode> on Win32 and Cgywin
+Fixed bug RT #54828 in F<perlio.c> where calling C<binmode> on Win32 and Cgywin
may cause a segmentation fault.
=back
analysed by the Perl porting team. You can browse and search
the Perl 5 bugs at http://bugs.perl.org/
+If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it
+inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send
+it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription
+unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who be able
+to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help
+co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all
+platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security
+issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.
+
=head1 SEE ALSO
The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed.
projects / perl.git / commitdiff
