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1 | =head1 NAME |
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3 | perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3 | |
4 | ||
5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION | |
6 | ||
7 | This document describes differences between the 5.7.2 release and the | |
8 | 5.7.3 release. | |
9 | ||
10 | (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 | |
11 | release, see L<perl570delta>. To view the differences between the | |
12 | 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see L<perl571delta>. To view | |
13 | the differences between the 5.7.1 release and the 5.7.2 release, | |
14 | see L<perl572delta>.) | |
15 | ||
16 | =head1 Changes | |
17 | ||
18 | This is just a selected list of some of the more notable changes. | |
19 | The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see L<Changes58> | |
20 | (or L<Changes> in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these changes, lots of | |
21 | work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and Unicode; and general | |
22 | code cleanup; and last but not least and porting to non-UNIX lands like | |
23 | Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic, and EBCDIC. | |
24 | ||
25 | =over 4 | |
26 | ||
27 | =item 11362 | |
28 | ||
29 | add LC_MESSAGES to POSIX :locale_h export tag | |
30 | ||
31 | =item 11371 | |
32 | ||
33 | add DEL to [:cntrl:] | |
34 | ||
35 | =item 11375 | |
36 | ||
37 | make h2ph understand constants like 1234L | |
38 | ||
39 | =item 11405 | |
40 | ||
41 | fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment under Win32 | |
42 | ||
43 | =item 11410 | |
44 | ||
45 | fix a bug in the security taint checking of open() | |
46 | ||
47 | =item 11423 | |
48 | ||
49 | make perl fork() safe even on platforms that don't have pthread_atfork() | |
50 | ||
51 | =item 11459 | |
52 | ||
53 | make switching optimization levels during Perl builds easier via | |
54 | the OPTIMIZE environment variable | |
55 | ||
56 | =item 11475 | |
57 | ||
58 | make split()'s unused captures to be undef, not '' | |
59 | ||
60 | =item 11485 | |
61 | ||
62 | Search::Dict: allow transforming lines before comparing | |
63 | ||
64 | =item 11490 | |
65 | ||
66 | allow installing extra modules or bundles when building Perl | |
67 | ||
68 | =item 11516 | |
69 | ||
70 | add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed our dubious C practices | |
71 | ||
72 | =item 11541 | |
73 | ||
74 | pluggable optimizer | |
75 | ||
76 | =item 11549 | |
77 | ||
78 | integrate to WinCE port | |
79 | ||
80 | =item 11589 | |
81 | ||
82 | 4-arg select was broken on windows | |
83 | ||
84 | =item 11594 | |
85 | ||
86 | introduce the perlivp utility | |
87 | ||
88 | =item 11623 | |
89 | ||
90 | rename lib/unicode to lib/unicore to avoid case-insensitivity problems | |
91 | with lib/Unicode | |
92 | ||
93 | =item 111631 | |
94 | ||
95 | remove Time::Piece | |
96 | ||
97 | =item 11643 | |
98 | ||
99 | document that use utf8 is not the right way most of the time | |
100 | ||
101 | =item 11656 | |
102 | ||
103 | allow builing perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8 the | |
104 | default script encoding | |
105 | ||
106 | =item 11725 | |
107 | ||
108 | division preserving 64-bit integers | |
109 | ||
110 | =item 11743 | |
111 | ||
112 | document the coderef-in-@INC feature | |
113 | ||
114 | =item 11794 | |
115 | ||
116 | modulu preserving 64-bit integers | |
117 | ||
118 | =item 11825 | |
119 | ||
120 | update to Unicode 3.1.1 | |
121 | ||
122 | =item 11865 | |
123 | ||
124 | add the \[$@%&*] prototype support | |
125 | ||
126 | =item 11874 | |
127 | ||
128 | oct() and hex() in glorious 64 bit | |
129 | ||
130 | =item 11877 | |
131 | ||
132 | Class::Struct: allow recursive classes | |
133 | ||
134 | =item 11993 | |
135 | ||
136 | fix unpack U to be the reverse of pack U | |
137 | ||
138 | =item 12056 | |
139 | ||
140 | waitpid enchancements for VMS | |
141 | ||
142 | =item 12180 | |
143 | ||
144 | unpack("Z*Z*", pack("Z*Z*", ..)) was broken | |
145 | ||
146 | =item 12243 | |
147 | ||
148 | Devel::Peek: display UTF-8 SVs also also as \x{...} | |
149 | ||
150 | =item 12288 | |
151 | ||
152 | Data::Dumper: option to sort hashes | |
153 | ||
154 | =item 12542 | |
155 | ||
156 | add perlpodspec | |
157 | ||
158 | =item 12652 | |
159 | ||
160 | threadsafe DynaLoader, re, Opcode, File::Glob, and B | |
161 | ||
162 | =item 12756 | |
163 | ||
164 | support BeOS better | |
165 | ||
166 | =item 12874 | |
167 | ||
168 | read-only hashes (user-level interface is Hash::Util) | |
169 | ||
170 | =item 13162 | |
171 | ||
172 | add Devel::PPPort | |
173 | ||
174 | =item 13179 | |
175 | ||
176 | add the sort pragma | |
177 | ||
178 | =item 13326 | |
179 | ||
180 | VMS: fix perl -P | |
181 | ||
182 | =item 13358 | |
183 | ||
184 | add perlpacktut | |
185 | ||
186 | =item 13452 | |
187 | ||
188 | SUPER-UX: add hints file | |
189 | ||
190 | =item 13575 | |
191 | ||
192 | Win32: non-blocking waitpid(-1,WNOHANG) | |
193 | ||
194 | =item 13684 | |
195 | ||
196 | introduce the -t option for gentler taint checking | |
197 | ||
198 | =item 14694 | |
199 | ||
200 | add the if pragma | |
201 | ||
202 | =item 14832 | |
203 | ||
204 | implement IV/UV/NV/long double un/packing with j/J/F/D | |
205 | ||
206 | =item 14854 | |
207 | ||
208 | document the new taint behaviour of exec LIST and system LIST | |
209 | ||
210 | =back | |
211 | ||
212 | =head1 Reporting Bugs | |
213 | ||
214 | If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles | |
215 | recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl | |
216 | bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be | |
217 | information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. | |
218 | ||
219 | If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug> | |
220 | program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down | |
221 | to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the | |
222 | output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be | |
223 | analysed by the Perl porting team. | |
224 | ||
225 | =head1 SEE ALSO | |
226 | ||
227 | The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed. | |
228 | ||
229 | The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. | |
230 | ||
231 | The F<README> file for general stuff. | |
232 | ||
233 | The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. | |
234 | ||
235 | =head1 HISTORY | |
236 | ||
237 | Written by Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>, with many contributions | |
238 | from The Perl Porters and Perl Users submitting feedback and patches. | |
239 | ||
240 | Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.org>>. | |
241 | ||
242 | =cut |