5 perl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2
9 This document describes differences between the 5.30.1 release and the 5.30.2
12 If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.30.0, first read
13 L<perl5301delta>, which describes differences between 5.30.0 and 5.30.1.
15 =head1 Incompatible Changes
17 There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.30.0. If any exist,
18 they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See L</Reporting Bugs>
21 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
23 =head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
29 L<Compress::Raw::Bzip2> has been upgraded from version 2.084 to 2.089.
33 L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20191110 to 5.20200314.
39 =head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
41 We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes
42 listed in this document. If you find any we have missed, send email
43 to L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
45 =head1 Configuration and Compilation
51 GCC 10 is now supported by F<Configure>.
57 Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this
60 =head1 Platform Support
62 =head2 Platform-Specific Notes
68 The MYMALLOC (PERL_MALLOC) build on Windows has been fixed.
72 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
78 printf() or sprintf() with the C<%n> format no longer cause a panic on
79 debugging builds, or report an incorrectly cached length value when producing
80 C<SVfUTF8> flagged strings.
82 [L<GH #17221|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17221>]
86 A memory leak in regular expression patterns has been fixed.
88 [L<GH #17218|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17218>]
92 A read beyond buffer in grok_infnan has been fixed.
94 [L<GH #17370|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17370>]
98 An assertion failure in the regular expression engine has been fixed.
100 [L<GH #17372|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17372>]
104 C<(?{...})> eval groups in regular expressions no longer unintentionally
105 trigger "EVAL without pos change exceeded limit in regex".
107 [L<GH #17490|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17490>]
111 =head1 Acknowledgements
113 Perl 5.30.2 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl 5.30.1
114 and contains approximately 2,100 lines of changes across 110 files from 15
117 Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
118 approximately 920 lines of changes to 30 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
120 Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community
121 of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed
122 the improvements that became Perl 5.30.2:
124 Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Hugo van der Sanden, Karen
125 Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Matthew Horsfall, Nicolas R., Petr Písař, Renee
126 Baecker, Sawyer X, Steve Hay, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.
128 The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
129 from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
130 the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
133 Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
134 included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
135 helping Perl to flourish.
137 For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
138 the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
140 =head1 Reporting Bugs
142 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at
143 L<https://rt.perl.org/>. There may also be information at
144 L<http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
146 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
147 L<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down to a
148 tiny but sufficient test case.
150 If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
151 inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see L<perlsec/SECURITY
152 VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION> for details of how to report the issue.
156 If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5,
157 you can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program:
161 This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.
165 The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
168 The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
170 The F<README> file for general stuff.
172 The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.