L<charnames> has been updated from version 1.18 to 1.30.
-L<charnames> can now be invoked with a new option, C<:loose>,
+C<charnames> can now be invoked with a new option, C<:loose>,
which is like the existing C<:full> option, but enables Unicode loose
name matching. Details are in L<charnames/LOOSE MATCHES>.
L<IPC::Open3> has been upgraded from version 1.09 to 1.12.
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
Fixes a bug which prevented use of C<open3> on Windows when C<*STDIN>,
C<*STDOUT> or C<*STDERR> had been localized.
-=item *
-
Fixes a bug which prevented duplicating numeric file descriptors on Windows.
-=item *
-
C<open3> with "-" for the program name works once more. This was broken in
version 1.06 (and hence in Perl 5.14.0) [perl #95748].
-=back
-
=item *
L<Locale::Codes> has been upgraded from version 3.16 to 3.21.
=item *
-C<Devel::DProf> has been removed from the Perl core. Prior version was
+L<Devel::DProf> has been removed from the Perl core. Prior version was
20110228.00.
=item *
-C<Shell> has been removed from the Perl core. Prior version was 0.72_01.
+L<Shell> has been removed from the Perl core. Prior version was 0.72_01.
=item *
Since version 1.7, Cygwin supports native UTF-8 paths. If Perl is built
under that environment, directory and filenames will be UTF-8 encoded.
+=item *
+
Cygwin does not initialize all original Win32 environment variables. See
F<README.cygwin> for a discussion of the newly-added
C<Cygwin::sync_winenv()> function [perl #110190] and for
Remove unnecessary includes, fix miscellaneous compiler warnings and
close some unclosed comments on F<vms/vms.c>.
+=item *
+
Remove sockadapt layer from the VMS build.
=item *
=head3 GNU/Hurd
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
Numerous build and test failures on GNU/Hurd have been resolved with hints
for building DBM modules, detection of the library search path, and enabling
of large file support.
+=back
+
=head3 OpenVOS
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
Perl is now built with dynamic linking on OpenVOS, the minimum supported
version of which is now Release 17.1.0.
+=back
+
=head3 SunOS
The CC workshop C++ compiler is now detected and used on systems that ship