4 This has been completed up to 1a50d74bac4, except for:
5 8629c11317 smueller Escape double-quotes in generated #line directives
6 8dc67a69b shlomif perl -d: display lines inside subroutines.
7 3dfd1b5cd2 leont Export PerlIOBase_open
11 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.15.7
15 This document describes differences between the 5.15.6 release and
18 If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.15.5, first read
19 L<perl5156delta>, which describes differences between 5.15.5 and
24 XXX Any important notices here
26 =head1 Core Enhancements
28 =head2 C<use charnames> no longer needed for C<\N{I<name>}>
30 The C<charnames> module is now automatically loaded when needed as if
31 the C<:full> and C<:short> options had been specified. See
34 =head2 Improved performance for Unicode properties in regular expressions
36 Matching a code point against a Unicode property is now done via a
37 binary search instead of linear. This means for example that the worst
38 case for a 1000 item property is 10 probes instead of 1000. This
39 inefficiency has been compensated for in the past by permanently storing
40 in a hash the results of a given probe plus the results for the adjacent
41 64 code points, under the theory that near-by code points are likely to
42 be searched for. A separate hash was used for each mention of a Unicode
43 property in each regular expression. Thus, C<qr/\p{foo}abc\p{foo}/>
44 would generate two hashes. Any probes in one instance would be unknown
45 to the other, and the hashes could expand separately to be quite large
46 if the regular expression were used on many different widely-separated
47 code points. This can lead to running out of memory in extreme cases.
48 Now, however, there is just one hash shared by all instances of a given
49 property. This means that if C<\p{foo}> is matched against "A" in one
50 regular expression in a thread, the result will be known immediately to
51 all regular expressions, and the relentless march of using up memory is
56 XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security
57 vulnerabilities closed should be noted here rather than in the
58 L</Selected Bug Fixes> section.
60 [ List each security issue as a =head2 entry ]
62 =head1 Incompatible Changes
64 XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be:
66 There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX
67 If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a
68 report. See L</Reporting Bugs> below.
70 [ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ]
74 =head2 Deprecated Modules
78 =item L<Version::Requirements>
80 Version::Requirements is now DEPRECATED, use CPAN::Meta::Requirements,
81 which is a drop-in replacement. It will be deleted from perl.git blead
86 =head1 Performance Enhancements
92 Version declarations with the C<use> keyword (e.g., C<use 5.012>) are now
93 faster, as they enable features without loading F<feature.pm>.
97 C<local $_> is faster now, as it no longer iterates through magic that it
98 is not going to copy anyway.
102 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
104 XXX All changes to installed files in F<cpan/>, F<dist/>, F<ext/> and F<lib/>
105 go here. If Module::CoreList is updated, generate an initial draft of the
106 following sections using F<Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl>, which prints stub
107 entries to STDOUT. Results can be pasted in place of the '=head2' entries
108 below. A paragraph summary for important changes should then be added by hand.
109 In an ideal world, dual-life modules would have a F<Changes> file that could be
112 [ Within each section, list entries as a =item entry ]
114 =head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
120 L<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from version 1.10 to version 1.11.
122 It now deparses C<open('random string')> correctly. It used to omit the
123 quotation marks, which did not work if the string were not a valid
124 identifier [perl #91416].
126 A similar bug also affected hash and array elements such as
127 C<< 'random string'->[0] >>, which would deparse as C<$random string[0]>.
130 Those same syntaxes used to drop the package name from variables beginning
131 with a punctuation mark, as in C<< "foo::]"->{$key} >>. This, too, has
134 B::Deparse no longer hangs when deparsing a program with stash
135 circularities, such as C<BEGIN { *Acme::Acme:: = *Acme:: }> [perl #91384].
137 C</$s[1]/> used to be deparsed as C<$s[1]> if @s were a lexical variable
138 [perl #81424]. Similarly, C</$#s/> would be deparsed as C<$#s> for both
139 lexical and package variables. These has been fixed.
141 The C</applaud> regular expression flags are no longer omitted.
143 Feature hints are now deparsed with C<use feature> rather than C<%^H>
146 A regression in 1.10 that caused C<ambient_pragmas> to disable strict mode
147 in obscure cases has been fixed.
149 Strict mode is now fully deparsed, including subs and vars [perl #24027].
151 The global variables C<$(>, C<$|> and C<$)> are now deparsed with braces
152 (i.e., C<${(}>) in regular expressions [perl #86060].
154 C<continue> blocks after C<for> loops are now deparsed correctly, as they
155 were back in 0.67 (included with Perl 5.8.5) [perl #108224]
159 L<CGI> has been upgraded from version 3.58 to version 3.59.
161 We no longer read from STDIN when the Content-Length is not set, preventing
162 requests with no Content-Length from freezing in some cases. This is consistent
163 with the CGI RFC 3875, and is also consistent with CGI::Simple. However, the old
164 behavior may have been expected by some command-line uses of CGI.pm.
168 L<CPAN::Meta> has been upgraded from version 2.112621 to version 2.113640.
170 Version::Requirements has now been merged as CPAN::Meta::Requirements.
174 L<CPANPLUS> has been upgraded from version 0.9113 to version 0.9116.
178 L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from version 2.135_01 to version
181 It can now dump vstrings [perl #101162].
183 The nameless typeglob (C<*{""}>) is now dumped properly.
187 L<diagnostics> has been upgraded from version 1.26 to version 1.27.
189 See the entry for splain in the L</Utility Changes> section, for the
190 changes. The diagnostics module and the splain utility are actually one
195 L<ExtUtils::Packlist> has been upgraded from version 1.45 to version 1.46.
197 It no longer produces "used once" warnings when the C<read> and C<write>
198 methods are called while the main program is still compiling (e.g., from
199 within a BEGIN block) [perl #107410] [rt.cpan.org #50315].
203 L<Locale::Maketext> has been upgraded from version 1.21 to version 1.22.
207 L<Module::Pluggable> has been upgraded from version 3.9 to version 4.0.
211 L<overload> has been upgraded from version 1.16 to version 1.17.
213 C<overload::Overloaded> no longer calls C<can> on the class, but uses
214 another means to determine whether the object has overloading. It was
215 never correct for it to call C<can>, as overloading does not respect
216 AUTOLOAD. So classes that autoload methods and implement C<can> no longer
217 have to account for overloading [perl #40333].
219 A warning is now produced for invalid arguments. See L</New Diagnostics>.
223 L<perlfaq> has been upgraded from version 5.0150036 to version 5.0150038.
227 L<PerlIO::scalar> has been upgraded from version 0.12 to version 0.13.
229 (This is the module that implements C<< open $fh, '>', \$scalar >>.)
231 It no longer assumes during C<seek> that $scalar is a string internally.
232 If it didn't crash, it was close to doing so [perl #92706].
234 Printing to an in-memory handle now works if the $scalar holds a reference,
235 stringifying the reference before modifying it. References used to be
236 treated as empty strings.
238 Printing to an in-memory handle no longer crashes if the $scalar happens to
239 hold a number internally, but no string buffer.
243 L<Pod::Html> has been upgraded from version 1.12 to 1.13
247 L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 1.27 to version 1.29.
249 C<sigsuspend> and C<pause> now run signals handle before returning, as the
250 whole point of these two functions is to wait until a signal has
251 arrived, and then return I<after> it has been triggered. Delayed, or
252 "safe", signals were preventing that from happening, possibly resulting in
253 race conditions [perl #107216].
254 C<POSIX::sleep> is now a direct call into the underlying OS C<sleep>
255 function, instead of being a Perl wrapper on C<CORE::sleep>. C<POSIX::dup2>
256 now returns the correct value on Win32 (I<i.e.> the file descriptor).
257 C<POSIX::SigSet> C<sigsuspend> and C<sigpending> and C<POSIX::pause> now
258 dispatch safe signals immediately before returning to their caller.
262 L<Pod::Perldoc> has been upgraded from version 3.15_01 to version 3.15_15.
266 L<Term::UI> has been upgraded from version 0.26 to version 0.30.
270 L<Tie::File> has been upgraded from version 0.96 to version 0.98.
274 L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.37 to version 0.38.
275 This changes the output of C<prop_invmap()> for the Name_Alias property
276 to reflect the changes that are planned for Unicode 6.1, so that there
277 won't be a format change when upgrading to 6.1. Briefly, a second
278 component of each alias is added that gives the type of alias it is.
279 Examples are at L<Unicode::UCD/prop_invmap()>.
283 L<Version::Requirements> has been upgraded from version 0.101020 to version 0.101021.
285 Version::Requirements is now DEPRECATED, use CPAN::Meta::Requirements,
286 which is a drop-in replacement.
292 =head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
300 C<dbmopen> treats a 0 mode as a special case, that prevents a nonexistent
301 file from being created. This has been the case since Perl 5.000, but was
302 never documented anywhere. Now the perlfunc entry mentions it
307 The entry for C<split> has been rewritten. It is now far clearer than
312 =head3 L<perlop> and L<perlsyn>
318 Documentation of the smartmatch operator has been reworked and moved from
319 perlsyn to perlop where it belongs.
323 Documentation of the ellipsis statement (C<...>) has been reworked and
324 moved from perlop to perlsyn.
330 The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
331 including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
332 diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
334 =head2 New Diagnostics
342 L<Cannot set tied @DB::args|perldiag/"Cannot set tied @DB::args">
344 This error occurs when C<caller> tries to set C<@DB::args> but finds it
345 tied. Before this error was added, it used to crash instead.
349 L<Cannot tie unreifiable array|perldiag/"Cannot tie unreifiable array">
351 This error is part of a safety check that the C<tie> operator does before
352 tying a special array like C<@_>. You should never see this message.
362 L<defined(@array) is deprecated|perldiag/"defined(@array) is deprecated">
364 The long-deprecated C<defined(@array)> now also warns for package variables.
365 Previously it only issued a warning for lexical variables.
369 L<Useless use of \E|perldiag/"Useless use of \E">
371 C<\E> does nothing unless preceded by C<\Q>, C<\L> or C<\U>.
375 L<overload arg '%s' is invalid|perldiag/"overload arg '%s' is invalid">
377 This warning, in the "overload" category, is produced when the overload
378 pragma is given an argument it doesn't recognize, presumably a mistyped
389 "sort is now a reserved word"
391 This error used to occur when C<sort> was called without arguments, followed by C<;> or C<)>. (E.g., C<sort;> would die, but C<{sort}> was
392 OK.) This error message was added in Perl 3 to catch code like
393 C<close(sort)> which would no longer work. More than two decades later,
394 this message is no longer appropriate. Now C<sort> without arguments is
395 always allowed, and returns an empty list, as it did in those cases where
396 it was already allowed [perl #90030].
400 =head1 Utility Changes
408 splain no longer emits backtraces with the first line number repeated.
411 Uncaught exception from user code:
412 Cannot fwiddle the fwuddle at -e line 1.
414 main::baz() called at -e line 1
415 main::bar() called at -e line 1
416 main::foo() called at -e line 1
420 Uncaught exception from user code:
421 Cannot fwiddle the fwuddle at -e line 1.
422 main::baz() called at -e line 1
423 main::bar() called at -e line 1
424 main::foo() called at -e line 1
428 Some error messages consist of multiple lines that are listed as separate
429 entries in L<perldiag>. splain has been taught to find the separate
430 entries in these cases, instead of simply failing to find the message.
434 =head1 Configuration and Compilation
440 The Pod files for the perl FAQ, L<perlxs>, L<perlxstut> and L<perldoc>
441 are once again correctly installed in the same directory as the other core
444 =for 5.16.0 This isn't a regression from 5.14.x, so don't mention this.
454 F<t/porting/utils.t> now tests that various utility scripts compile cleanly.
455 During development, this avoids the embarrassment of inadvertently pushing a
456 commit which breaks code which isn't otherwise tested by the regression test
457 suite. For example, F<installperl> and F<installman>, needed by
458 C<make install>, are tested here.
462 =head1 Internal Changes
468 There are now feature bundle hints in C<PL_hints> (C<$^H>) that version
469 declarations use, to avoid having to load F<feature.pm>. One setting of
470 the hint bits indicates a "custom" feature bundle, which means that the
471 entries in C<%^H> still apply. F<feature.pm> uses that.
473 The C<HINT_FEATURE_MASK> macro is defined in F<perl.h> along with other
474 hints. Other macros for setting and testing features and bundles are in
475 the new F<feature.h>. C<FEATURE_IS_ENABLED> (which has moved to
476 F<feature.h>) is no longer used throughout the codebase, but more specific
477 macros, e.g., C<FEATURE_SAY_IS_ENABLED>, that are defined in F<feature.h>.
481 F<lib/feature.pm> is now a generated file, created by the new
482 F<regen/feature.pl> script, which also generates F<feature.h>.
486 Tied arrays are now always C<AvREAL>. If C<@_> or C<DB::args> is tied, it
487 is reified first, to make sure this is always the case.
491 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
495 =item * "b . COND" in the debugger has been fixed
497 Breaking on the current line with C<b . COND> was broken by previous work and
502 Tying C<%^H> no longer causes perl to crash or ignore
503 the contents of C<%^H> when entering a compilation
504 scope [perl #106282].
506 =item * C<~> on vstrings
508 The bitwise complement operator (and possibly other operators, too) when
509 passed a vstring would leave vstring magic attached to the return value,
510 even though the string had changed. This meant that
511 C<< version->new(~v1.2.3) >> would create a version looking like "v1.2.3"
512 even though the string passed to C<< version->new >> was actually
513 "\376\375\374". This also caused L<B::Deparse> to deparse C<~v1.2.3>
514 incorrectly, without the C<~> [perl #29070].
516 =item * Vstrings blowing away magic
518 Assigning a vstring to a magic (e.g., tied, C<$!>) variable and then
519 assigning something else used to blow away all the magic. This meant that
520 tied variables would come undone, C<$!> would stop getting updated on
521 failed system calls, C<$|> would stop setting autoflush, and other
522 mischief would take place. This has been fixed.
524 =item * C<newHVhv> and tied hashes
526 The C<newHVhv> XS function now works on tied hashes, instead of crashing or
527 returning an empty hash.
529 =item * Hashes will null elements
531 It is possible from XS code to create hashes with elements that have no
532 values. Perl itself sometimes creates such hashes, but they are rarely
533 visible to Perl code. The hash element and slice operators used to crash
534 when handling these in lvalue context. These have been fixed. They now
535 produce a "Modification of non-creatable hash value attempted" error
538 =item * No warning for C<open(foo::bar)>
540 When one writes C<open foo || die>, which used to work in Perl 4, a
541 "Precedence problem" warning is produced. This warning used erroneously to
542 apply to fully-qualified bareword handle names not followed by C<||>. This
545 =item * C<select> and package aliasing
547 After package aliasing (C<*foo:: = *bar::>), C<select> with 0 or 1 argument
548 would sometimes return a name that could not be used to refer to the
549 filehandle, or sometimes it would return C<undef> even when a filehandle
550 was selected. Now it returns a typeglob reference in such cases.
552 =item * C<PerlIO::get_layers> and tied variables
554 C<PerlIO::get_layers> no longer ignores FETCH on tied variables as it used
555 to most of the time [perl #97956].
557 =item * C<PerlIO::get_layers> and numbers
559 C<PerlIO::get_layers> no longer ignores some arguments that it thinks are
560 numeric, while treating others as filehandle names. It is now consistent
561 for flat scalars (i.e., not references).
563 =item * Lvalue subs and strict mode
565 Lvalue sub calls that are not determined to be such at compile time
566 (C<&$name> or &{"name"}) are no longer exempt from strict refs if they
567 occur in the last statement of an lvalue subroutine [perl #102486].
569 =item * Non-lvalue sub calls in potentially lvalue context
571 Sub calls whose subs are not visible at compile time, if
572 they occurred in the last statement of an lvalue subroutine,
573 would reject non-lvalue subroutines and die with "Can't modify non-lvalue
574 subroutine call" [perl #102486].
576 Non-lvalue sub calls whose subs I<are> visible at compile time exhibited
577 the opposite bug. If the call occurred in the last statement of an lvalue
578 subroutine, there would be no error when the lvalue sub was called in
579 lvalue context. Perl would blindly assign to the temporary value returned
580 by the non-lvalue subroutine.
582 =item * AUTOLOADing lvalue subs
584 C<AUTOLOAD> routines used to take precedence over the actual sub being
585 called (i.e., when autoloading wasn't needed), for sub calls in lvalue or
586 potential lvalue context, if the subroutine was not visible at compile
589 =item * C<caller> and tied C<@DB::args>
591 C<caller> sets C<@DB::args> to the subroutine arguments when called from
592 the DB package. It used to crash when doing so if C<@DB::args> happened to
593 be tied. Now it croaks instead.
597 Under debugging builds, this code:
599 sub TIEARRAY{bless[]}
605 use to produce an "av_reify called on tied array" warning. It doesn't any
608 =item * Unrecognised switches on C<#!> line
610 If a switch, such as B<-x>, that cannot occur on the C<#!> line is used
611 there, perl dies with "Can't emulate...".
613 It used to produce the same message for switches that perl did not
614 recognise at all, whether on the command line or the C<#!> line.
616 Now it produces the "Unrecognized switch" error message [perl #104288].
618 =item * C<system> and SIGCHLD
620 C<system> now temporarily blocks the SIGCHLD signal handler, to prevent the
621 signal handler from stealing the exit status [perl #105700].
623 =item * Deleting methods via C<delete>
625 Deletion of methods via C<delete $Class::{method}> syntax used to update
626 method caches if called in void context, but not scalar or list context.
627 Now it always updates those caches.
629 =item * Hash element deletion and destructors
631 When hash elements are deleted in void context, the internal hash entry is
632 now freed before the value is freed, to prevent destructors called by that
633 latter freeing from seeing the hash in an inconsistent state. It was
634 possible to cause double-frees if the destructor freed the hash itself
637 =item * C<(s)printf>'s %n formatting code
639 The %n formatting code, which causes the number of characters to be
640 assigned to the next argument to C<printf> or C<sprintf> now actually
641 assigns the number of characters, instead of the number of bytes.
643 It also works now with special lvalue functions like C<substr> and with
644 nonexistent hash and array elements [perl #103492].
646 =item * Typeglobs and threads
648 Typeglobs returned from threads are no longer cloned if the parent thread
649 already has a glob with the same name. This means that returned
650 subroutines will now assign to the right package variables [perl #107366].
654 In Perl 5.14, C<local $_> was changed to create a new variable not tied to
655 anything, even if $_ was tied before that. But, due to an oversight, it
656 would still call FETCH once on a tied $_ before replacing it with the new
657 variable. This has been fixed [perl #105912].
659 =item * Returning tied variables
661 When returning a value from a non-lvalue subroutine, Perl copies the value.
662 Sometimes it cheats for the sake of speed, and does not copy the value if
663 it makes no observable difference. This optimisation was erroneously
664 allowing the copy to be skipped on tied variables, causing a difference in
665 behaviour depending on the tied variable's reference count. This has been
668 =item * C<{@a = sort}> no longer crashes
670 This particular piece of code (C<sort> with no arguments assigned to an
671 array, inside a block with no C<;>) started crashing in an earlier 5.15.x
672 release. It has been fixed.
674 =item * C<utf8::decode> and read-only scalars
676 C<utf8::decode> now refuses to modify read-only scalars [perl #91850].
678 =item * C<dbmopen> with undefined mode
680 C<dbmopen> now only warns once, rather than three times, if the mode
681 argument is C<undef> [perl #90064].
683 =item * Freeing an aggregate during list assignment
685 If list assignment to a hash or array triggered destructors that freed the
686 hash or array itself, a crash would ensue. This is no longer the case
689 =item * Confused internal bookkeeping with @ISA arrays
691 Creating a weak reference to an @ISA array or accessing the array index
692 (C<$#ISA>) could result in confused internal bookkeeping for elements
693 subsequently added to the @ISA array. For instance, creating a weak
694 reference to the element itself could push that weak reference on to @ISA;
695 and elements added after use of C<$#ISA> would be ignored by method lookup
698 =item * DELETE on scalar ties
700 Tying an element of %ENV or C<%^H> and then deleting that element would
701 result in a call to the tie object's DELETE method, even though tying the
702 element itself is supposed to be equivalent to tying a scalar (the element
703 is, of course, a scalar) [perl #67490].
705 =item * Freeing $_ inside C<grep> or C<map>
707 Freeing $_ inside a C<grep> or C<map> block or a code block embedded in a
708 regular expression used to result in double frees [perl #92254, #92256].
710 =item * Warnings with C<+=>
712 The C<+=> operator does not usually warn when the left-hand side is
713 C<undef>, but it was doing so for tied variables. This has been fixed
716 =item * Tying and autovivification
718 When Perl autovivifies an element of a tied array or hash (which entails
719 calling STORE with a new reference), it now calls FETCH immediately after
720 the STORE, instead of assuming that FETCH would have returned the same
721 reference. This can make it easier to implement tied objects [perl #35865, #43011].
723 =item * C<@&> and C<$&>
725 Mentioning a variable named "&" other than C<$&> (i.e., C<@&> or C<%&>) no
726 longer stops C<$&> from working. The same applies to variables named "'"
727 and "`" [perl #24237].
729 =item * Stacked filetests
731 C<-T> and C<-B> now work when stacked up with other filetest operators
734 =item * Filetests and stat buffers
736 Perl keeps several internal variables to keep track of the last stat
737 buffer, from which file(handle) it originated, what type it was, and
738 whether the last stat succeeded.
740 There were various cases where these could get out of synch, resulting in
741 inconsistent or erratic behaviour in edge cases (every mention of C<-T>
742 applies to C<-B> as well):
748 C<-T I<HANDLE>>, even though it does a C<stat>, was not resetting the last
749 stat type, so an C<lstat _> following it would merrily return the wrong
750 results. Also, it was not setting the success status.
754 Freeing the handle last used by C<stat> or a filetest could result in
755 S<C<-T _>> using an unrelated handle.
759 C<stat> with an IO reference (as returned by C<*STDIO{IO}>, for instance)
760 would not reset the stat type.
764 C<stat> with an IO reference was not recording the filehandle for
769 The presence of fatal warnings could cause the stat buffer not to be reset
770 for a filetest operator on an unopened filehandle or C<-l> on any handle.
774 Fatal warnings would stop C<-T> from setting C<$!>.
778 When the last stat was on an unreadable file, C<-T _> is supposed to
779 return C<undef>, leaving the last stat buffer unchanged. But it was
780 setting the stat type, causing C<lstat _> to stop working.
784 C<-T I<FILENAME>> was not resetting the internal stat buffers for
789 These have all been fixed.
791 =item * C<defined *{"!"}>
793 An earlier 5.15.x release caused this construct to stop the C<%!> hash
794 from working. Likewise C<defined *{"+"}> and C<defined *{"-"}> caused
795 C<%+> and C<%->, respectively, to stop working. This has been fixed.
797 =item * C<-T _> with no preceding C<stat>
799 This used to produce a confusing "uninitialized" warning, even though there
800 is no visible uninitialized value to speak of.
802 =item * C<stat I<HANDLE>> and fstat failures
804 If the operating system's C<fstat> function failed, C<stat> would warn
805 about an unopened handle, even though that was not the case. This has been
808 =item * C<lstat I<IOREF>>
810 C<lstat> is documented to fall back to C<stat> (with a warning) when given
811 a filehandle. When passed an IO reference, it was actually doing the
812 equivalent of S<C<stat _>> and ignoring the handle.
814 =item * Crashes with warnings
816 Two warning messages that mention variable names started crashing in
817 5.15.5, but have been fixed [perl #106726, #107656].
819 =item * Bitwise assignment operators and copy-on-write
821 In 5.14.0, the bitwise assignment operators C<|=>, C<^=> and C<&=> starting
822 leaving the left-hand side undefined if it happened to be a copy-on-write
823 string. This has been fixed [perl #108480].
825 =item * Three problematic Unicode characters now work better in regex pattern matching under C</i>
827 In the past, three Unicode characters:
828 LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S,
829 GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS,
831 GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH DIALYTIKA AND TONOS,
832 along with the sequences that they fold to
833 (including "ss" in the case of LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S),
834 did not properly match under C</i>. 5.14.0 fixed some of these cases,
835 but introduced others, including a panic when one of the characters or
836 sequences was used in the C<(?(DEFINE)> regular expression predicate.
837 The known bugs that were introduced in 5.14 have now been fixed; as well
838 as some other edge cases that have never worked until now. All these
839 involve using the characters and sequences outside bracketed character
840 classes under C</i>. This closes [perl #98546].
842 There remain known problems when using certain characters with
843 multi-character folds inside bracketed character classes, including such
844 constructs as C<qr/[\N{LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP}a-z]/i>. These
845 remaining bugs are addressed in [perl #89774].
849 =head1 Acknowledgements
851 Perl 5.15.7 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.15.6
852 and contains approximately 50,000 lines of changes across 470 files from 28
855 Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
856 of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the
857 improvements that became Perl 5.15.7:
859 Alberto Simões, Bo Lindbergh, Brian Fraser,
860 Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dave
861 Rolsky, David Mitchell, Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz,
862 H.Merijn Brand, Hojung Youn, James E Keenan, Joel Berger, Joshua ben Jore, Karl
863 Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Michael Witten, Nicholas Clark,
864 Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish,
865 Steffen Müller, Steffen Schwigon, Todd Rinaldo,
866 Tom Christiansen, Tom Hukins, Tony Cook, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason.
868 The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
869 from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
870 the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
873 Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
874 included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
875 helping Perl to flourish.
877 For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
878 the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
880 =head1 Reporting Bugs
882 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
883 recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
884 bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be
885 information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
887 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L<perlbug>
888 program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
889 to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
890 output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
891 analysed by the Perl porting team.
893 If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it
894 inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send
895 it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription
896 unarchived mailing list, which includes
897 all the core committers, who will be able
898 to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help
899 co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all
900 platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for
901 security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently
906 The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details
909 The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
911 The F<README> file for general stuff.
913 The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.