5 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.26.0
9 This document describes the differences between the 5.24.0 release and the
12 =head1 Core Enhancements
14 =head2 New regular expression modifier C</xx>
16 Specifying two C<x> characters to modify a regular expression pattern
17 does everything that a single one does, but additionally TAB and SPACE
18 characters within a bracketed character class are generally ignored and
19 can be added to improve readability, like
20 S<C</[ ^ A-Z d-f p-x ]/xx>>. Details are at
21 L<perlre/E<sol>x and E<sol>xx>.
23 =head2 New Hash Function For 64-bit Builds
25 We have switched to a hybrid hash function to better balance
26 performance for short and long keys.
28 For short keys, 16 bytes and under, we use an optimised variant of
29 One At A Time Hard, and for longer keys we use Siphash 1-3. For very
30 long keys this is a big improvement in performance. For shorter keys
31 there is a modest improvement.
33 =head2 Indented Here-documents
35 This adds a new modifier '~' to here-docs that tells the parser
36 that it should look for /^\s*$DELIM\n/ as the closing delimiter.
38 These syntaxes are all supported:
49 The '~' modifier will strip, from each line in the here-doc, the
50 same whitespace that appears before the delimiter.
52 Newlines will be copied as is, and lines that don't include the
53 proper beginning whitespace will cause perl to croak.
63 prints "Hello there\n" with no leading whitespace.
67 Since time immemorial Perl has, as a last resort, loaded libraries
68 from the current directory. For security reasons this is no longer the
69 case, the C<@INC> variable no longer contains C<.> as its last element
72 If you want to disable this behavior at compile-time build perl with
73 C<-Udefault_inc_excludes_dot> (C<-Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot> being the
76 If you'd like to add C<.> back to C<@INC> at runtime set
77 C<PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1> in the environment before starting
78 perl. Setting it to 1 restores C<.> in the C<@INC> when perl otherwise
81 Various toolchain modules will set C<PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1>
82 themselves. E.g. L<Test::Harness> sets it since loading modules from a
83 relative path is a common idiom in test code. If you find that you
84 have C<.> in C<@INC> on a perl built with default settings it's likely
85 that your code is being invoked by a toolchain module of some sort.
87 =head2 @{^CAPTURE}, %{^CAPTURE}, and %{^CAPTURE_ALL}
89 C<@{^CAPTURE}> exposes the capture buffers of the last match as an
90 array. So C<$1> is C<${^CAPTURE}[0]>. This is a more efficient equivalent
91 to code like C<substr($matched_string,$-[0],$+[0]-$-[0])>, and you don't
92 have to keep track of the C<$matched_string> either. This variable has no
93 single character equivalent. Note like the other regex magic variables
94 the contents of this variable is dynamic, if you wish to store it beyond
95 the lifetime of the match you must copy it to another array.
97 C<%{^CAPTURE}> is the equivalent to C<%+> (ie named captures). Other than
98 being more self documenting there is no difference between the two forms.
100 C<%{^CAPTURE_ALL}> is the equivalent to C<%-> (ie all named captures).
101 Other than being more self documenting there is no difference between the
104 =head2 Unicode 9.0 is now supported
106 A list of changes is at L<http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode9.0.0/>.
107 Modules that are shipped with core Perl but not maintained by p5p do not
108 necessarily support Unicode 9.0. L<Unicode::Normalize> does work on 9.0.
110 =head2 Use of C<\p{I<script>}> uses the improved Script_Extensions property
112 Unicode 6.0 introduced an improved form of the Script (C<sc>) property, and
113 called it Script_Extensions (C<scx>). As of now, Perl uses this improved
114 version when a property is specified as just C<\p{I<script>}>. The meaning of
115 compound forms, like C<\p{sc=I<script>}> are unchanged. This should make
116 programs be more accurate when determining if a character is used in a given
117 script, but there is a slight chance of breakage for programs that very
118 specifically needed the old behavior. See L<perlunicode/Scripts>.
120 =head2 Declaring a reference to a variable
122 As an experimental feature, Perl now allows the referencing operator to come
123 after L<C<my()>|perlfunc/my>, L<C<state()>|perlfunc/state>,
124 L<C<our()>|perlfunc/our>, or L<C<local()>|perlfunc/local>. This syntax must
125 be enabled with C<use feature 'declared_refs'>. It is experimental, and will
126 warn by default unless C<no warnings 'experimental::refaliasing'> is in effect.
127 It is intended mainly for use in assignments to references. For example:
129 use experimental 'refaliasing', 'declared_refs';
132 See L<perlref/Assigning to References> for more details.
134 =head2 Perl can now do default collation in UTF-8 locales on platforms
137 Some platforms natively do a reasonable job of collating and sorting in
138 UTF-8 locales. Perl now works with those. For portability and full
139 control, L<Unicode::Collate> is still recommended, but now you may
140 not need to do anything special to get good-enough results, depending on
141 your application. See
142 L<perllocale/Category C<LC_COLLATE>: Collation: Text Comparisons and Sorting>.
144 =head2 Better locale collation of strings containing embedded C<NUL>
147 In locales that have multi-level character weights, these are now
148 ignored at the higher priority ones. There are still some gotchas in
149 some strings, though. See
150 L<perllocale/Collation of strings containing embedded C<NUL> characters>.
152 =head2 Lexical subroutines are no longer experimental
154 Using the C<lexical_subs> feature introduced in v5.18 no longer emits a warning. Existing
155 code that disables the C<experimental::lexical_subs> warning category
156 that the feature previously used will continue to work. The
157 C<lexical_subs> feature has no effect; all Perl code can use lexical
158 subroutines, regardless of what feature declarations are in scope.
160 =head2 C<CORE> subroutines for hash and array functions callable via
163 The hash and array functions in the C<CORE> namespace--C<keys>, C<each>,
164 C<values>, C<push>, C<pop>, C<shift>, C<unshift> and C<splice>--, can now
165 be called with ampersand syntax (C<&CORE::keys(\%hash>) and via reference
166 (C<< my $k = \&CORE::keys; $k-E<gt>(\%hash) >>). Previously they could only be
169 =head2 POSIX::tmpnam() has been removed
171 The fundamentally unsafe C<tmpnam()> interface was deprecated in
172 Perl 5.22.0 and has now been removed. In its place you can use
173 for example the L<File::Temp> interfaces.
175 =head2 require ::Foo::Bar is now illegal.
177 Formerly, C<require ::Foo::Bar> would try to read F</Foo/Bar.pm>. Now any
178 bareword require which starts with a double colon dies instead.
180 =head2 Unescaped literal C<"{"> characters in regular expression
181 patterns are no longer permissible
183 You have to now say something like C<"\{"> or C<"[{]"> to specify to
184 match a LEFT CURLY BRACKET. This will allow future extensions to the
185 language. This restriction is not enforced, nor are there current plans
186 to enforce it, if the C<"{"> is the first character in the pattern.
188 These have been deprecated since v5.16, with a deprecation message
189 displayed starting in v5.22.
191 =head2 Literal control character variable names are no longer permissible
193 A variable name may no longer contain a literal control character under
194 any circumstances. These previously were allowed in single-character
195 names on ASCII platforms, but have been deprecated there since Perl
196 v5.20. This affects things like C<$I<\cT>>, where I<\cT> is a literal
197 control (such as a C<NAK> or C<NEGATIVE ACKNOWLEDGE> character) in the
200 =head2 C<NBSP> is no longer permissible in C<\N{...}>
202 The name of a character may no longer contain non-breaking spaces. It
203 has been deprecated to do so since Perl v5.22.
205 =head2 create a safer utf8_hop() called utf8_hop_safe()
207 Unlike utf8_hop(), utf8_hop_safe() won't navigate before the beginning or after
208 the end of the supplied buffer.
212 =head2 Remove current dir (C<.>) from C<@INC>
214 For security reasons, C<@INC> no longer contains the default directory
215 (C<.>). See L</'.' and @INC> in the L</Core Enhancements> section for
218 =head2 "Escaped" colons and relative paths in PATH
220 On Unix systems, Perl treats any relative paths in the PATH environment
221 variable as tainted when starting a new process. Previously, it was
222 allowing a backslash to escape a colon (unlike the OS), consequently
223 allowing relative paths to be considered safe if the PATH was set to
224 something like C</\:.>. The check has been fixed to treat C<.> as tainted
227 =head2 C<-Di> switch is now required for PerlIO debugging output
229 Previously PerlIO debugging output would be sent to the file specified
230 by the C<PERLIO_DEBUG> environment variable if perl wasn't running
231 setuid and the C<-T> or C<-t> switches hadn't been parsed yet.
233 If perl performed output at a point where it hadn't yet parsed its
234 switches this could result in perl creating or overwriting the file
235 named by C<PERLIO_DEBUG> even when the C<-T> switch had been supplied.
237 Perl now requires the C<-Di> switch to produce PerlIO debugging
238 output. By default this is written to C<stderr>, but can optionally
239 be redirected to a file by setting the C<PERLIO_DEBUG> environment
242 If perl is running setuid or the C<-T> switch has supplied
243 C<PERLIO_DEBUG> is ignored and the debugging output is sent to
244 C<stderr> as for any other C<-D> switch.
246 =head1 Incompatible Changes
248 =head2 C<${^ENCODING}> has been removed
250 Consequently, the L<encoding> pragma's default mode is no longer supported. If
251 you still need to write your source code in encodings other than UTF-8, use a
252 source filter such as L<Filter::Encoding> on CPAN or L<encoding>'s C<Filter>
255 =head2 C<scalar(%hash)> return signature changed
257 The value returned for C<scalar(%hash)> will no longer show information about
258 the buckets allocated in the hash. It will simply return the count of used
259 keys. It is thus equivalent to C<0+keys(%hash)>.
261 A form of backwards compatibility is provided via C<Hash::Util::bucket_ratio()>
262 which provides the same behavior as C<scalar(%hash)> provided prior to Perl
265 =head2 C<keys> returned from an lvalue subroutine
267 C<keys> returned from an lvalue subroutine can no longer be assigned
270 sub foo : lvalue { keys(%INC) }
272 sub bar : lvalue { keys(@_) }
273 (bar) = 3; # also an error
275 This makes the lvalue sub case consistent with C<(keys %hash) = ...> and
276 C<(keys @_) = ...>, which are also errors. [perl #128187]
280 =head2 String delimiters that aren't stand-alone graphemes are now deprecated
282 In order for Perl to eventually allow string delimiters to be Unicode
283 grapheme clusters (which look like a single character, but may be
284 a sequence of several ones), we have to stop allowing a single char
285 delimiter that isn't a grapheme by itself. These are unlikely to exist
286 in actual code, as they would typically display as attached to the
287 character in front of them.
289 =head1 Performance Enhancements
295 A hash in boolean context is now sometimes faster, e.g.
299 This was already special-cased, but some cases were missed, and even the
300 ones which weren't have been improved.
304 Several other ops may now also be faster in boolean context.
306 =item * New Faster Hash Function on 64 bit builds
308 We use a different hash function for short and long keys. This should
309 improve performance and security, especially for long keys.
311 =item * readline is faster
313 Reading from a file line-by-line with C<readline()> or C<< E<lt>E<gt> >> should
314 now typically be faster due to a better implementation of the code that
315 searches for the next newline character.
319 Reduce cost of SvVALID().
323 C<$ref1 = $ref2> has been optimized.
327 Array and hash assignment are now faster, e.g.
332 especially when the RHS is empty.
336 Reduce the number of odd special cases for the C<SvSCREAM> flag.
340 Avoid sv_catpvn() in do_vop() when unneeded.
344 Enhancements in Regex concat COW implementation.
348 Clearing hashes and arrays has been made slightly faster. Now code
349 like this is around 5% faster:
352 for my $i (1..3_000_000) {
357 and this code around 3% faster:
360 for my $i (1..3_000_000) {
367 Better optimise array and hash assignment
371 Converting a single-digit string to a number is now substantially faster.
375 The internal op implementing the C<split> builtin has been simplified and
376 sped up. Firstly, it no longer requires a subsidiary internal C<pushre> op
377 to do its work. Secondly, code of the form C<my @x = split(...)> is now
378 optimised in the same way as C<@x = split(...)>, and is therefore a few
383 The rather slow implementation for the experimental subroutine signatures
384 feature has been made much faster; it is now comparable in speed with the
385 old-style C<my ($a, $b, @c) = @_>.
389 Bareword constant strings are now permitted to take part in constant
390 folding. They were originally exempted from constant folding in August 1999,
391 during the development of Perl 5.6, to ensure that C<use strict "subs">
392 would still apply to bareword constants. That has now been accomplished a
393 different way, so barewords, like other constants, now gain the performance
394 benefits of constant folding.
396 This also means that void-context warnings on constant expressions of
397 barewords now report the folded constant operand, rather than the operation;
398 this matches the behaviour for non-bareword constants.
402 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
404 =head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
410 L<Archive::Tar> has been upgraded from version 2.04 to 2.24.
414 L<arybase> has been upgraded from version 0.11 to 0.12.
418 L<attributes> has been upgraded from version 0.27 to 0.29.
420 The deprecation message for the C<:unique> and C<:locked> attributes
421 now mention they will disappear in Perl 5.28.
425 L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.62 to 1.68.
429 L<B::Concise> has been upgraded from version 0.996 to 0.999.
431 Its output is now more descriptive for C<op_private> flags.
435 L<B::Debug> has been upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.24.
439 L<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from version 1.37 to 1.40.
443 L<B::Xref> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
445 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
449 L<base> has been upgraded from version 2.23 to 2.25.
453 L<bignum> has been upgraded from version 0.42 to 0.47.
457 L<Carp> has been upgraded from version 1.40 to 1.42.
461 L<charnames> has been upgraded from version 1.43 to 1.44.
465 L<Compress::Raw::Bzip2> has been upgraded from version 2.069 to 2.074.
469 L<Compress::Raw::Zlib> has been upgraded from version 2.069 to 2.074.
473 L<Config::Perl::V> has been upgraded from version 0.25 to 0.28.
477 L<CPAN> has been upgraded from version 2.11 to 2.18.
481 L<CPAN::Meta> has been upgraded from version 2.150005 to 2.150010.
485 L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from version 2.160 to 2.167.
487 The XS implementation now supports Deparse.
489 This fixes a stack management bug. [perl #130487].
493 L<DB_File> has been upgraded from version 1.835 to 1.840.
497 L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.26.
501 L<Devel::PPPort> has been upgraded from version 3.32 to 3.35.
505 L<Devel::SelfStubber> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
507 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
511 L<diagnostics> has been upgraded from version 1.34 to 1.36.
513 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
517 L<Digest> has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.17_01.
521 L<Digest::MD5> has been upgraded from version 2.54 to 2.55.
525 L<Digest::SHA> has been upgraded from version 5.95 to 5.96.
529 L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.38 to 1.42.
533 L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 2.80 to 2.88.
537 L<encoding> has been upgraded from version 2.17 to 2.19.
539 This module's default mode is no longer supported as of Perl 5.25.3. It now
540 dies when imported, unless the C<Filter> option is being used.
544 L<encoding::warnings> has been upgraded from version 0.12 to 0.13.
546 This module is no longer supported as of Perl 5.25.3. It emits a warning to
547 that effect and then does nothing.
551 L<Errno> has been upgraded from version 1.25 to 1.28.
553 Document that using C<%!> loads Errno for you.
555 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
559 L<ExtUtils::Embed> has been upgraded from version 1.33 to 1.34.
561 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
565 L<ExtUtils::MakeMaker> has been upgraded from version 7.10_01 to 7.24.
569 L<ExtUtils::Miniperl> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
573 L<ExtUtils::ParseXS> has been upgraded from version 3.31 to 3.34.
577 L<ExtUtils::Typemaps> has been upgraded from version 3.31 to 3.34.
581 L<feature> has been upgraded from version 1.42 to 1.47.
583 Fixes the Unicode Bug in the range operator.
587 L<File::Copy> has been upgraded from version 2.31 to 2.32.
591 L<File::Fetch> has been upgraded from version 0.48 to 0.52.
595 L<File::Glob> has been upgraded from version 1.26 to 1.28.
597 Issue a deprecation message for C<File::Glob::glob()>.
601 L<File::Spec> has been upgraded from version 3.63 to 3.67.
605 L<FileHandle> has been upgraded from version 2.02 to 2.03.
609 L<Filter::Simple> has been upgraded from version 0.92 to 0.93.
611 It no longer treats C<no MyFilter> immediately following C<use MyFilter> as
612 end-of-file. [perl #107726]
616 L<Getopt::Long> has been upgraded from version 2.48 to 2.49.
620 L<Getopt::Std> has been upgraded from version 1.11 to 1.12.
624 L<Hash::Util> has been upgraded from version 0.19 to 0.22.
628 L<HTTP::Tiny> has been upgraded from version 0.056 to 0.070.
630 Internal 599-series errors now include the redirect history.
634 L<I18N::LangTags> has been upgraded from version 0.40 to 0.42.
636 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
640 L<IO> has been upgraded from version 1.36 to 1.38.
644 IO-Compress has been upgraded from version 2.069 to 2.074.
648 L<IO::Socket::IP> has been upgraded from version 0.37 to 0.38.
652 L<IPC::Cmd> has been upgraded from version 0.92 to 0.96.
656 L<IPC::SysV> has been upgraded from version 2.06_01 to 2.07.
660 L<JSON::PP> has been upgraded from version 2.27300 to 2.27400_02.
664 L<lib> has been upgraded from version 0.63 to 0.64.
666 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
670 L<List::Util> has been upgraded from version 1.42_02 to 1.46_02.
674 L<Locale::Codes> has been upgraded from version 3.37 to 3.42.
678 L<Locale::Maketext> has been upgraded from version 1.26 to 1.28.
682 L<Locale::Maketext::Simple> has been upgraded from version 0.21 to 0.21_01.
686 L<Math::BigInt> has been upgraded from version 1.999715 to 1.999806.
688 There have also been some core customizations.
692 L<Math::BigInt::FastCalc> has been upgraded from version 0.40 to 0.5005.
696 L<Math::BigRat> has been upgraded from version 0.260802 to 0.2611.
700 L<Math::Complex> has been upgraded from version 1.59 to 1.5901.
704 L<Memoize> has been upgraded from version 1.03 to 1.03_01.
708 L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20170420 to 5.20170520.
712 L<Module::Load::Conditional> has been upgraded from version 0.64 to 0.68.
716 L<Module::Metadata> has been upgraded from version 1.000031 to 1.000033.
720 L<mro> has been upgraded from version 1.18 to 1.20.
724 L<Net::Ping> has been upgraded from version 2.43 to 2.55.
726 IPv6 addresses and C<AF_INET6> sockets are now supported, along with several
729 Remove sudo from 500_ping_icmp.t.
731 Avoid stderr noise in tests
733 Check for echo in new Net::Ping tests.
737 L<NEXT> has been upgraded from version 0.65 to 0.67.
741 L<Opcode> has been upgraded from version 1.34 to 1.39.
745 L<open> has been upgraded from version 1.10 to 1.11.
749 L<OS2::Process> has been upgraded from version 1.11 to 1.12.
751 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
755 L<overload> has been upgraded from version 1.26 to 1.28.
757 Its compilation speed has been improved slightly.
761 L<parent> has been upgraded from version 0.234 to 0.236.
765 L<perl5db.pl> has been upgraded from version 1.50 to 1.51.
767 Ignore F</dev/tty> on non-Unix systems. [perl #113960]
771 L<Perl::OSType> has been upgraded from version 1.009 to 1.010.
775 L<perlfaq> has been upgraded from version 5.021010 to 5.021011.
779 L<PerlIO> has been upgraded from version 1.09 to 1.10.
783 L<PerlIO::encoding> has been upgraded from version 0.24 to 0.25.
787 L<PerlIO::scalar> has been upgraded from version 0.24 to 0.26.
791 L<Pod::Checker> has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.73.
795 L<Pod::Functions> has been upgraded from version 1.10 to 1.11.
799 L<Pod::Html> has been upgraded from version 1.22 to 1.2202.
803 L<Pod::Perldoc> has been upgraded from version 3.25_02 to 3.28.
807 L<Pod::Simple> has been upgraded from version 3.32 to 3.35.
811 L<Pod::Usage> has been upgraded from version 1.68 to 1.69.
815 L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 1.65 to 1.76. This remedies several
816 defects in making its symbols exportable. [perl #127821]
817 The C<POSIX::tmpnam()> interface has been removed,
818 see L</"POSIX::tmpnam() has been removed">.
819 Trying to import POSIX subs that have no real implementations
820 (like C<POSIX::atend()>) now fails at import time, instead of
821 waiting until runtime.
825 L<re> has been upgraded from version 0.32 to 0.34
827 This adds support for the new L<C<E<47>xx>|perlre/E<sol>x and E<sol>xx>
828 regular expression pattern modifier, and a change to the L<S<C<use re
829 'strict'>>|re/'strict' mode> experimental feature. When S<C<re
830 'strict'>> is enabled, a warning now will be generated for all
831 unescaped uses of the two characters C<}> and C<]> in regular
832 expression patterns (outside bracketed character classes) that are taken
833 literally. This brings them more in line with the C<)> character which
834 is always a metacharacter unless escaped. Being a metacharacter only
835 sometimes, depending on action at a distance, can lead to silently
836 having the pattern mean something quite different than was intended,
837 which the S<C<re 'strict'>> mode is intended to minimize.
841 L<Safe> has been upgraded from version 2.39 to 2.40.
845 L<Scalar::Util> has been upgraded from version 1.42_02 to 1.46_02.
849 L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 2.56 to 2.62.
851 Fixes [perl #130098].
855 L<Symbol> has been upgraded from version 1.07 to 1.08.
859 L<Sys::Syslog> has been upgraded from version 0.33 to 0.35.
863 L<Term::ANSIColor> has been upgraded from version 4.04 to 4.06.
867 L<Term::ReadLine> has been upgraded from version 1.15 to 1.16.
869 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
873 L<Test> has been upgraded from version 1.28 to 1.30.
875 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
879 L<Test::Harness> has been upgraded from version 3.36 to 3.38.
883 L<Test::Simple> has been upgraded from version 1.001014 to 1.302073.
887 L<Thread::Queue> has been upgraded from version 3.09 to 3.12.
891 L<Thread::Semaphore> has been upgraded from 2.12 to 2.13.
893 Added the C<down_timed> method.
897 L<threads> has been upgraded from version 2.07 to 2.15.
899 Compatibility with 5.8 has been restored.
901 Fixes [perl #130469].
905 L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.51 to 1.56.
907 This fixes [cpan #119529], [perl #130457]
911 L<Tie::Hash::NamedCapture> has been upgraded from version 0.09 to 0.10.
915 L<Time::HiRes> has been upgraded from version 1.9733 to 1.9741.
917 It now builds on systems with C++11 compilers (such as G++ 6 and Clang++
920 Now uses C<clockid_t>.
924 L<Time::Local> has been upgraded from version 1.2300 to 1.25.
928 L<Unicode::Collate> has been upgraded from version 1.14 to 1.19.
932 L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.64 to 0.68.
934 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
938 L<version> has been upgraded from version 0.9916 to 0.9917.
942 L<VMS::DCLsym> has been upgraded from version 1.06 to 1.08.
944 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
948 L<warnings> has been upgraded from version 1.36 to 1.37.
952 L<XS::Typemap> has been upgraded from version 0.14 to 0.15.
956 L<XSLoader> has been upgraded from version 0.21 to 0.27.
958 Fixed a security hole in which binary files could be loaded from a path
959 outside of L<C<@INC>|perlvar/@INC>.
961 It now uses 3-arg C<open()> instead of 2-arg C<open()>. [perl #130122]
967 =head2 New Documentation
969 =head3 L<perldeprecation>
971 This file documents all upcoming deprecations, and some of the deprecations
972 which already have been removed. The purpose of this documentation is
973 two-fold: document what will disappear, and by which version, and serve
974 as a guide for people dealing with code which has features that no longer
975 work after an upgrade of their perl.
977 =head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
985 Use of unassigned code point or non-standalone grapheme for a delimiter will be a fatal error starting in Perl 5.30
987 This was changed to drop a leading C<v> in C<v5.30>, so it uses the same
988 style as other deprecation messages.
992 "\c%c" is more clearly written simply as "%s".
994 It was decided to undeprecate the use of C<\c%c>, see L<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2017/02/msg242944.html>
998 Removed redundant C<dSP> from an example.
1002 =head3 L<perlcommunity>
1008 All references to Usenet have been removed.
1018 Updated documentation of C<scalar(%hash)>. See L</scalar(%hash) return
1019 signature changed> above.
1023 Use of single character variables, with the variable name a non printable
1024 character in the range C<\x80>-C<\xFF> is no longer allowed. Update the docs to
1035 All references to Usenet have been removed.
1045 Deprecations are to be marked with a D.
1046 C<"%s() is deprecated on :utf8 handles"> use a deprecation message, and as
1047 such, such be marked C<"(D deprecated)"> and not C<"(W deprecated)">.
1051 =head3 L<perlexperiment>
1057 Documented new feature: See L</Declaring a reference to a variable> above.
1067 Defined on aggregates is no longer allowed. Perlfunc was still reporting it as
1068 deprecated, and that it will be deleted in the future.
1072 Clarified documentation of L<C<seek()>|perlfunc/seek>,
1073 L<C<tell()>|perlfunc/tell> and L<C<sysseek()>|perlfunc/sysseek>.
1074 L<[perl #128607]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128607>
1078 Removed obsolete documentation of L<C<study()>|perlfunc/study>.
1088 Add C<pTHX_> to magic method examples.
1098 Document Tab VS Space.
1102 =head3 L<perlinterp>
1108 L<perlinterp> has been expanded to give a more detailed example of how to
1109 hunt around in the parser for how a given operator is handled.
1113 =head3 L<perllocale>
1119 Document C<NUL> collation handling.
1123 Some locales aren't compatible with Perl. Note the potential bad
1124 consequences of using them.
1128 =head3 L<perlmodinstall>
1134 All references to Usenet have been removed.
1138 =head3 L<perlmodlib>
1144 Updated the mirror list.
1148 All references to Usenet have been removed.
1152 =head3 L<perlnewmod>
1158 All references to Usenet have been removed.
1168 Added a section on calling methods using their fully qualified names.
1172 Do not discourage manual @ISA.
1186 Mention C<Moo> more.
1196 Clarify behavior single quote regexps.
1206 Several minor enhancements to the documentation.
1216 Fixed link to Crosby paper on hash complexity attack.
1226 Documented new feature: See L</Declaring a reference to a variable> above.
1236 Updated documentation of C<scalar(%hash)>. See L</scalar(%hash) return
1237 signature changed> above.
1241 =head3 L<perlunicode>
1247 Documented change to C<\p{I<script>}> to now use the improved Script_Extensions
1248 property. See L</Use of \p{script} uses the improved Script_Extensions
1253 Updated the text to correspond with changes in Unicode UTS#18, concerning
1254 regular expressions, and Perl compatibility with what it says.
1264 Removed obsolete documentation of C<${^ENCODING}>. See L</${^ENCODING} has
1265 been removed> above.
1269 Document C<@ISA>. Was documented other places, not not in L<perlvar>.
1275 =head2 New Diagnostics
1283 Since C<.> is now removed from C<@INC> by default, C<do> will now trigger
1284 a warning recommending to fix the C<do> statement:
1286 L<do "%s" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC|perldiag/do "%s" failed, '.' is no longer in @INC; did you mean do ".E<sol>%s"?>
1290 Using the empty pattern (which re-executes the last successfully-matched
1291 pattern) inside a code block in another regex, as in C</(?{ s!!new! })/>, has
1292 always previously yielded a segfault. It now produces an error:
1293 L<Infinite recursion in regex|perldiag/"Infinite recursion in regex">.
1297 L<The experimental declared_refs feature is not enabled|perldiag/"The experimental declared_refs feature is not enabled">
1299 (F) To declare references to variables, as in C<my \%x>, you must first enable
1302 no warnings "experimental::declared_refs";
1303 use feature "declared_refs";
1307 L<Version control conflict marker|perldiag/"Version control conflict marker">
1309 (F) The parser found a line starting with C<E<lt>E<lt>E<lt>E<lt>E<lt>E<lt>E<lt>>,
1310 C<E<gt>E<gt>E<gt>E<gt>E<gt>E<gt>E<gt>>, or C<=======>. These may be left by a
1311 version control system to mark conflicts after a failed merge operation.
1315 L<%s: command not found|perldiag/"%s: command not found">
1317 (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<bash> or another shell
1318 instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into
1319 Perl yourself. The #! line at the top of your file could look like:
1325 L<%s: command not found: %s|perldiag/"%s: command not found: %s">
1327 (A) You've accidentally run your script through B<zsh> or another shell
1328 instead of Perl. Check the #! line, or manually feed your script into
1329 Perl yourself. The #! line at the top of your file could look like:
1335 L<Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by S<E<lt>-- HERE> in mE<sol>%sE<sol>|perldiag/"Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by S<<-- HERE> in m/%s/">
1337 Unescaped left braces are already illegal in some contexts in regular
1338 expression patterns, but, due to an oversight, no deprecation warning
1339 was raised in other contexts where they are intended to become illegal.
1340 This warning is now raised in these contexts.
1344 L<Bareword in require contains "%s"|perldiag/"Bareword in require contains "%s"">
1348 L<Bareword in require maps to empty filename|perldiag/"Bareword in require maps to empty filename">
1352 L<Bareword in require maps to disallowed filename "%s"|perldiag/"Bareword in require maps to disallowed filename "%s"">
1356 L<Bareword in require must not start with a double-colon: "%s"|perldiag/"Bareword in require must not start with a double-colon: "%s"">
1366 L<Use of unassigned code point or non-standalone grapheme for a delimiter will be a fatal error starting in Perl 5.30|perldiag/"Use of unassigned code point or non-standalone grapheme for a delimiter will be a fatal error starting in Perl 5.30">
1368 See L</Deprecations>
1372 L<Declaring references is experimental|perldiag/"Declaring references is experimental">
1374 (S experimental::declared_refs) This warning is emitted if you use a reference
1375 constructor on the right-hand side of C<my()>, C<state()>, C<our()>, or
1376 C<local()>. Simply suppress the warning if you want to use the feature, but
1377 know that in doing so you are taking the risk of using an experimental feature
1378 which may change or be removed in a future Perl version:
1380 no warnings "experimental::declared_refs";
1381 use feature "declared_refs";
1386 L<C<${^ENCODING}> is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28|perldiag/"${^ENCODING} is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28">
1388 (D deprecated) The special variable C<${^ENCODING}>, formerly used to implement
1389 the C<encoding> pragma, is no longer supported as of Perl 5.26.0.
1393 =head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
1399 When a C<require> fails, we now do not provide C<@INC> when the C<require>
1400 is for a file instead of a module.
1404 When C<@INC> is not scanned for a C<require> call, we no longer display
1405 C<@INC> to avoid confusion.
1409 Attribute "locked" is deprecated, and will disappear in Perl 5.28
1413 Attribute "unique" is deprecated, and will disappear in Perl 5.28
1417 Constants from lexical variables potentially modified elsewhere are
1418 deprecated. This will not be allowed in Perl 5.32
1422 Deprecated use of my() in false conditional. This will be a fatal error
1427 dump() better written as CORE::dump(). dump() will no longer be available
1432 ${^ENCODING} is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28
1436 File::Glob::glob() will disappear in perl 5.30. Use File::Glob::bsd_glob()
1441 %s() is deprecated on :utf8 handles. This will be a fatal error in Perl 5.30
1445 $* is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.30
1449 $* is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.30
1453 Opening dirhandle %s also as a file. This will be a fatal error in Perl 5.28
1457 Opening filehandle %s also as a directory. This will be a fatal
1462 Setting $/ to a reference to %s as a form of slurp is deprecated,
1463 treating as undef. This will be fatal in Perl 5.28
1467 Unescaped left brace in regex is deprecated here (and will be fatal
1468 in Perl 5.30), passed through in regex; marked by S<< E<lt>-- HERE >> in m/%s/
1472 Unknown charname '' is deprecated. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28
1476 Use of bare E<lt>E<lt> to mean E<lt>E<lt>"" is deprecated. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28
1480 Use of code point 0x%s is deprecated; the permissible max is 0x%s.
1481 This will be fatal in Perl 5.28
1485 Use of comma-less variable list is deprecated. Its use will be fatal
1490 Use of inherited AUTOLOAD for non-method %s() is deprecated. This
1491 will be fatal in Perl 5.28
1495 Use of strings with code points over 0xFF as arguments to %s operator
1496 is deprecated. This will be a fatal error in Perl 5.28
1500 Improve error for missing tie() package/method. This brings the error messages
1501 in line with the ones used for normal method calls, despite not using
1506 Make the sysread()/syswrite/() etc :utf8 handle warnings default. These
1507 warnings were under 'deprecated' previously.
1511 'do' errors now refer to 'do' (not 'require').
1515 Details as to the exact problem have been added to the diagnostics that
1516 occur when malformed UTF-8 is encountered when trying to convert to a
1521 Executing C<undef $x> where C<$x> is tied or magical no longer incorrectly
1522 blames the variable for an uninitialized-value warning encountered by the
1527 L<Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by S<E<lt>-- HERE> in mE<sol>%sE<sol>|perldiag/"Unescaped left brace in regex is illegal here in regex; marked by S<<-- HERE> in m/%s/">
1529 The word "here" has been added to the message that was raised in
1530 v5.25.1. This is to indicate that there are contexts in which unescaped
1531 left braces are not (yet) illegal.
1535 Code like C<$x = $x . "a"> was incorrectly failing to yield a
1536 L<use of uninitialized value|perldiag/"Use of uninitialized value%s">
1537 warning when C<$x> was a lexical variable with an undefined value. That has
1538 now been fixed. [perl #127877]
1542 When the error "Experimental push on scalar is now forbidden" is raised for
1543 the hash functions C<keys>, C<each>, and C<values>, it is now followed by
1544 the more helpful message, "Type of arg 1 to whatever must be hash or
1545 array". [perl #127976]
1549 C<undef *_; shift> or C<undef *_; pop> inside a subroutine, with no
1550 argument to C<shift> or C<pop>, began crashing in Perl 5.14.0, but has now
1555 C<< "string$scalar-E<gt>$*" >> now correctly prefers concat overloading to
1556 string overloading if C<< $scalar-E<gt>$* >> returns an overloaded object,
1557 bringing it into consistency with C<$$scalar>.
1561 C<< /@0{0*-E<gt>@*/*0 >> and similar contortions used to crash, but no longer
1562 do, but merely produce a syntax error. [perl #128171]
1566 C<do> or C<require> with a reference or typeglob which, when stringified,
1567 contains a null character started crashing in Perl 5.20.0, but has now been
1568 fixed. [perl #128182]
1572 =head1 Utility Changes
1574 =head2 F<c2ph> and F<pstruct>
1580 These old utilities have long since superceded by L<h2xs>, and are
1581 now gone from the distribution.
1585 =head2 F<Porting/pod_lib.pl>
1591 Removed spurious executable bit.
1595 Account for possibility of DOS file endings.
1599 =head2 F<Porting/sync-with-cpan>
1609 =head2 F<perf/benchmarks>
1615 Tidy file, rename some symbols.
1619 =head2 F<Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl>
1625 Replace obscure character range with \w.
1629 =head2 F<t/porting/regen.t>
1635 try to be more helpful when tests fail.
1639 =head2 F<utils/h2xs.PL>
1645 Avoid infinite loop for enums.
1655 Long lines in the message body are now wrapped at 900 characters, to stay
1656 well within the 1000-character limit imposed by SMTP mail transfer agents.
1657 This is particularly likely to be important for the list of arguments to
1658 C<Configure>, which can readily exceed the limit if, for example, it names
1659 several non-default installation paths. This change also adds the first unit
1660 tests for perlbug. [perl #128020]
1664 =head1 Configuration and Compilation
1670 C<-Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot> has been turned on as default.
1674 The C<dtrace> build process has further changes:
1680 If the C<-xnolibs> is available, use that so a F<dtrace> perl can be
1681 built within a FreeBSD jail.
1685 On systems that build a dtrace object file (FreeBSD, Solaris and
1686 SystemTap's dtrace emulation), copy the input objects to a separate
1687 directory and process them there, and use those objects in the link,
1688 since C<dtrace -G> also modifies these objects.
1692 Add libelf to the build on FreeBSD 10.x, since dtrace adds references
1697 Generate a dummy dtrace_main.o if C<dtrace -G> fails to build it. A
1698 default build on Solaris generates probes from the unused inline
1699 functions, while they don't on FreeBSD, which causes C<dtrace -G> to
1708 You can now disable perl's use of the PERL_HASH_SEED and
1709 PERL_PERTURB_KEYS environment variables by configuring perl with
1710 C<-Accflags=NO_PERL_HASH_ENV>.
1714 You can now disable perl's use of the PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG environment
1715 variable by configuring perl with
1716 C<-Accflags=-DNO_PERL_HASH_SEED_DEBUG>.
1720 Zero out the alignment bytes when calculating the bytes for 80-bit C<NaN>
1721 and C<Inf> to make builds more reproducible. [perl #130133]
1725 Since 5.18 for testing purposes we have included support for
1726 building perl with a variety of non-standard, and non-recommended
1727 hash functions. Since we do not recommend the use of these functions
1728 we have removed them and their corresponding build options. Specifically
1729 this includes the following build options:
1733 PERL_HASH_FUNC_SUPERFAST
1734 PERL_HASH_FUNC_MURMUR3
1735 PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME
1736 PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_OLD
1737 PERL_HASH_FUNC_MURMUR_HASH_64A
1738 PERL_HASH_FUNC_MURMUR_HASH_64B
1742 Remove "Warning: perl appears in your path"
1744 This install warning is more or less obsolete, since most platforms already
1745 *will* have a /usr/bin/perl or similar provided by the OS.
1749 Reduce verbosity of "make install.man"
1751 Previously, two progress messages were emitted for each manpage: one by
1752 installman itself, and one by the function in install_lib.pl that it calls to
1753 actually install the file. Disabling the second of those in each case saves
1754 over 750 lines of unhelpful output.
1758 Cleanup for clang -Weverything support. [perl 129961]
1762 Configure: signbit scan was assuming too much, stop assuming negative 0.
1766 Various compiler warnings have been silenced.
1770 Several smaller changes have been made to remove impediments to compiling under
1775 Builds using C<USE_PAD_RESET> now work again; this configuration had
1780 A probe for C<gai_strerror> was added to F<Configure> that checks if the
1781 the gai_strerror() routine is available and can be used to
1782 translate error codes returned by getaddrinfo() into human
1787 F<Configure> now aborts if both "-Duselongdouble" and "-Dusequadmath" are
1789 L<[perl #126203]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126203>
1793 Fixed a bug in which F<Configure> could append "-quadmath" to the archname even
1794 if it was already present.
1795 L<[perl #128538]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128538>
1799 Clang builds with "-DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT" or "-DPERL_GLOBAL_STRUCT_PRIVATE" have
1800 been fixed (by disabling Thread Safety Analysis for these configurations).
1804 F<make_ext.pl> no longer updates a module's F<pm_to_blib> file when no
1805 files require updates. This could cause dependencies, F<perlmain.c>
1806 in particular, to be rebuilt unnecessarily. [perl #126710]
1810 The output of C<perl -V> has been reformatted so that each configuration
1811 and compile-time option is now listed one per line, to improve
1816 C<Configure> now builds C<miniperl> and C<generate_uudmap> if you
1817 invoke it with C<-Dusecrosscompiler> but not C<-Dtargethost=somehost>.
1818 This means you can supply your target platform C<config.sh>, generate
1819 the headers and proceed to build your cross-target perl. [perl #127234]
1823 Builds with C<-Accflags=-DPERL_TRACE_OPS> now only dump the operator
1824 counts when the environment variable C<PERL_TRACE_OPS> to be set to a
1825 non-zero integer. This allows C<make test> to pass on such a build.
1829 When building with GCC 6 and link-time optimization (the C<-flto> option to
1830 C<gcc>), C<Configure> was treating all probed symbols as present on the
1831 system, regardless of whether they actually exist. This has been fixed.
1836 The F<t/test.pl> library is used for internal testing of Perl itself, and
1837 also copied by several CPAN modules. Some of those modules must work on
1838 older versions of Perl, so F<t/test.pl> must in turn avoid newer Perl
1839 features. Compatibility with Perl 5.8 was inadvertently removed some time
1840 ago; it has now been restored. [perl #128052]
1844 The build process no longer emits an extra blank line before building each
1845 "simple" extension (those with only F<*.pm> and F<*.pod> files).
1855 F<XS-APItest/t/utf8.t>: Several small fixes and enhancements.
1859 Tests for locales were erroneously using locales incompatible with Perl.
1863 Some parts of the test suite that try to exhaustively test edge cases in the
1864 regex implementation have been restricted to running for a maximum of five
1865 minutes. On slow systems they could otherwise take several hours, without
1866 significantly improving our understanding of the correctness of the code
1869 In addition, some of those test cases have been split into more files, to
1870 allow them to be run in parallel on suitable systems.
1874 A new internal facility allows analysing the time taken by the individual
1875 tests in Perl's own test suite; see F<Porting/harness-timer-report.pl>.
1879 F<t/re/regexp_nonull.t> has been added to test that the regular expression
1880 engine can handle scalars that do not have a null byte just past the end of
1885 A new test script, F<t/op/decl-refs.t>, has been added to test the new feature,
1886 "Declaring a reference to a variable".
1890 A new test script, F<t/re/anyof.t>, has been added to test that the ANYOF nodes
1891 generated by bracketed character classes are as expected.
1895 F<t/harness> now tries really hard not to run tests outside of the Perl
1896 source tree. [perl #124050]
1900 =head1 Platform Support
1902 =head2 New Platforms
1908 Perl now compiles under NetBSD on VAX machines. However, it's not
1909 possible for that platform to implement floating-point infinities and
1910 NaNs compatibly with most modern systems, which implement the IEEE-754
1911 floating point standard. The hexadecimal floating point (C<0x...p[+-]n>
1912 literals, C<printf %a>) is not implemented, either.
1913 The C<make test> passes 98% of tests.
1919 Test fixes and minor updates.
1923 Account for lack of C<inf>, C<nan>, and C<-0.0> support.
1929 =head2 Platform-Specific Notes
1935 don't treat -Dprefix=/usr as special, instead require an extra option
1936 -Ddarwin_distribution to produce the same results.
1940 Finish removing POSIX deprecated functions.
1944 OS X El Capitan doesn't implement the clock_gettime() or clock_getres() APIs,
1945 emulate them as necessary.
1949 Deprecated syscall(2) on macOS 10.12.
1953 Several tests have been updated to work (or be skipped) on EBCDIC platforms.
1957 L<Net::Ping> UDP test is skipped on HP-UX.
1961 The hints for Hurd have been improved enabling malloc wrap and reporting the
1962 GNU libc used (previously it was an empty string when reported).
1966 VAX floating point formats are now supported.
1974 The path separator for the C<PERL5LIB> and C<PERLLIB> environment entries is
1975 now a colon (C<:>) when running under a Unix shell. There is no change when
1976 running under DCL (it's still C<|>).
1980 Remove some VMS-specific hacks from C<showlex.t>. These were added 15 years
1981 ago, and are no longer necessary for any VMS version now supported.
1985 Move C<_pDEPTH> and C<_aDEPTH> after F<config.h> otherwise DEBUGGING
1986 may not be defined yet.
1990 VAXC has not been a possibility for a good long while, and the versions of the
1991 DEC/Compaq/HP/VSI C compiler that report themselves as "DEC" in a listing file
1992 are 15 years or more out-of-date and can be safely desupported.
2002 Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
2003 (containing Visual C++ 14.0) has been added.
2005 This version of VC++ includes a completely rewritten C run-time library, some
2006 of the changes in which mean that work done to resolve a socket close() bug in
2007 perl #120091 and perl #118059 is not workable in its current state with this
2008 version of VC++. Therefore, we have effectively reverted that bug fix for
2009 VS2015 onwards on the basis that being able to build with VS2015 onwards is
2010 more important than keeping the bug fix. We may revisit this in the future to
2011 attempt to fix the bug again in a way that is compatible with VS2015.
2013 These changes do not affect compilation with GCC or with Visual Studio versions
2014 up to and including VS2013, i.e. the bug fix is retained (unchanged) for those
2017 Note that you may experience compatibility problems if you mix a perl built
2018 with GCC or VS E<lt>= VS2013 with XS modules built with VS2015, or if you mix a
2019 perl built with VS2015 with XS modules built with GCC or VS E<lt>= VS2013.
2020 Some incompatibility may arise because of the bug fix that has been reverted
2021 for VS2015 builds of perl, but there may well be incompatibility anyway because
2022 of the rewritten CRT in VS2015 (e.g. see discussion at
2023 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/30412951).
2033 Tweaks for Win32 VC vs GCC detection makefile code. This fixes issue that CCHOME
2034 depends on CCTYPE, which in auto detect mode is set after CCHOME, so CCHOME uses
2035 the uninit CCTYPE var. Also fix else vs .ELSE in makefile.mk
2039 fp definitions have been updated.
2045 Fix some breakage, add 'undef' value for default_inc_excludes_dot in build
2050 Drop support for Linux a.out Linux has used ELF for over twenty years.
2054 OpenBSD 6 still does not support returning pid, gid or uid with SA_SIGINFO.
2055 Make sure this is accounted for.
2059 t/uni/overload.t: Skip hanging test on FreeBSD.
2063 =head1 Internal Changes
2069 The C<op_class()> API function has been added. This is like the existing
2070 C<OP_CLASS()> macro, but can more accurately determine what struct an op
2071 has been allocated as. For example C<OP_CLASS()> might return
2072 C<OA_BASEOP_OR_UNOP> indicating that ops of this type are usually
2073 allocated as an C<OP> or C<UNOP>; while C<op_class()> will return
2074 C<OPclass_BASEOP> or C<OPclass_UNOP> as appropriate.
2078 The output format of the C<op_dump()> function (as used by C<perl -Dx>)
2079 has changed: it now displays an "ASCII-art" tree structure, and shows more
2080 low-level details about each op, such as its address and class.
2084 New versions of macros like C<isALPHA_utf8> and C<toLOWER_utf8> have
2085 been added, each with the
2086 suffix C<_safe>, like C<isSPACE_utf8_safe>. These take an extra
2087 parameter, giving an upper limit of how far into the string it is safe
2088 to read. Using the old versions could cause attempts to read beyond the
2089 end of the input buffer if the UTF-8 is not well-formed, and their use
2090 now raises a deprecation warning. Details are at
2091 L<perlapi/Character classification>.
2095 Calling macros like C<isALPHA_utf8> on malformed UTF-8 have issued a
2096 deprecation warning since Perl v5.18. They now die.
2097 Similarly, macros like C<toLOWER_utf8> on malformed UTF-8 now die.
2101 Calling the functions C<utf8n_to_uvchr> and its derivatives, while
2102 passing a string length of 0 is now asserted against in DEBUGGING
2103 builds, and otherwise returns the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. If
2104 you have nothing to decode, you shouldn't call the decode function.
2108 The functions C<utf8n_to_uvchr> and its derivatives now return the
2109 Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER if called with UTF-8 that has the overlong
2110 malformation, and that malformation is allowed by the input parameters.
2111 This malformation is where the UTF-8 looks valid syntactically, but
2112 there is a shorter sequence that yields the same code point. This has
2113 been forbidden since Unicode version 3.1.
2117 The functions C<utf8n_to_uvchr> and its derivatives now accept an input
2118 flag to allow the overflow malformation. This malformation is when the
2119 UTF-8 may be syntactically valid, but the code point it represents is
2120 not capable of being represented in the word length on the platform.
2121 What "allowed" means in this case is that the function doesn't return an
2122 error, and advances the parse pointer to beyond the UTF-8 in question,
2123 but it returns the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER as the value of the
2124 code point (since the real value is not representable).
2128 The C<PADOFFSET> type has changed from being unsigned to signed, and
2129 several pad-related variables such as C<PL_padix> have changed from being
2130 of type C<I32> to type C<PADOFFSET>.
2134 The function C<L<perlapi/utf8n_to_uvchr>> has been changed to not
2135 abandon searching for other malformations when the first one is
2136 encountered. A call to it thus can generate multiple diagnostics,
2137 instead of just one.
2141 A new function, C<L<perlapi/utf8n_to_uvchr_error>>, has been added for
2142 use by modules that need to know the details of UTF-8 malformations
2143 beyond pass/fail. Previously, the only ways to know why a sequence was
2144 ill-formed was to capture and parse the generated diagnostics, or to do
2149 Several new functions for handling Unicode have been added to the API:
2150 C<L<perlapi/is_strict_utf8_string>>,
2151 C<L<perlapi/is_c9strict_utf8_string>>,
2152 C<L<perlapi/is_utf8_string_flags>>,
2153 C<L<perlapi/is_strict_utf8_string_loc>>,
2154 C<L<perlapi/is_strict_utf8_string_loclen>>,
2155 C<L<perlapi/is_c9strict_utf8_string_loc>>,
2156 C<L<perlapi/is_c9strict_utf8_string_loclen>>,
2157 C<L<perlapi/is_utf8_string_loc_flags>>,
2158 C<L<perlapi/is_utf8_string_loclen_flags>>,
2159 C<L<perlapi/is_utf8_fixed_width_buf_flags>>,
2160 C<L<perlapi/is_utf8_fixed_width_buf_loc_flags>>,
2161 C<L<perlapi/is_utf8_fixed_width_buf_loclen_flags>>.
2163 These functions are all extensions of the C<is_utf8_string_*()> functions,
2164 that apply various restrictions to the UTF-8 recognized as valid.
2168 A new API function C<sv_setvpv_bufsize()> allows simultaneously setting the
2169 length and allocated size of the buffer in an C<SV>, growing the buffer if
2174 A new API macro C<SvPVCLEAR()> sets its C<SV> argument to an empty string,
2175 like Perl-space C<$x = ''>, but with several optimisations.
2179 All parts of the internals now agree that the C<sassign> op is a C<BINOP>;
2180 previously it was listed as a C<BASEOP> in F<regen/opcodes>, which meant
2181 that several parts of the internals had to be special-cased to accommodate
2182 it. This oddity's original motivation was to handle code like C<$x ||= 1>;
2183 that is now handled in a simpler way.
2187 Several new internal C macros have been added that take a string literal as
2188 arguments, alongside existing routines that take the equivalent value as two
2189 arguments, a character pointer and a length. The advantage of this is that
2190 the length of the string is calculated automatically, rather than having to
2191 be done manually. These routines are now used where appropriate across the
2196 The code in F<gv.c> that determines whether a variable has a special meaning
2197 to Perl has been simplified.
2201 The C<DEBUGGING>-mode output for regex compilation and execution has been
2206 Several macros and functions have been added to the public API for
2207 dealing with Unicode and UTF-8-encoded strings. See
2208 L<perlapi/Unicode Support>.
2212 Use C<my_strlcat()> in C<locale.c>. While C<strcat()> is safe in this context,
2213 some compilers were optimizing this to C<strcpy()> causing a porting test to
2214 fail that looks for unsafe code. Rather than fighting this, we just use
2215 C<my_strlcat()> instead.
2219 Three new ops, C<OP_ARGELEM>, C<OP_ARGDEFELEM> and C<OP_ARGCHECK> have
2220 been added. These are intended principally to implement the individual
2221 elements of a subroutine signature, plus any overall checking required.
2225 Perl no longer panics when switching into some locales on machines with
2226 buggy C<strxfrm()> implementations in their libc. [perl #121734]
2230 Perl is now built with the C<PERL_OP_PARENT> compiler define enabled by
2231 default. To disable it, use the C<PERL_NO_OP_PARENT> compiler define.
2232 This flag alters how the C<op_sibling> field is used in C<OP> structures,
2233 and has been available optionally since perl 5.22.0.
2235 See L<perl5220delta/"Internal Changes"> for more details of what this
2240 The meanings of some internal SV flags have been changed
2242 OPpRUNTIME, SVpbm_VALID, SVpbm_TAIL, SvTAIL_on, SvTAIL_off, SVrepl_EVAL,
2247 Change C<hv_fetch(…, "…", …, …)> to C<hv_fetchs(…, "…", …)>
2249 The dual-life dists all use Devel::PPPort, so they can use this function even
2250 though it was only added in 5.10.
2254 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
2260 C< $-{$name} > would leak an C<AV> on each access if the regular
2261 expression had no named captures. The same applies to access to any
2262 hash tied with L<Tie::Hash::NamedCapture> and C<< all =E<gt> 1 >>. [perl
2267 Attempting to use the deprecated variable C<$#> as the object in an
2268 indirect object method call could cause a heap use after free or
2269 buffer overflow. [perl #129274]
2273 When checking for an indirect object method call in some rare cases
2274 the parser could reallocate the line buffer but then continue to use
2275 pointers to the old buffer. [perl #129190]
2279 Supplying a glob as the format argument to L<perlfunc/formline> would
2280 cause an assertion failure. [perl #130722]
2284 Code like C< $value1 =~ qr/.../ ~~ $value2 > would have the match
2285 converted into a qr// operator, leaving extra elements on the stack to
2286 confuse any surrounding expression. [perl #130705]
2290 Since 5.24.0 in some obscure cases, a regex which included code blocks
2291 from multiple sources (e.g. via embedded via qr// objects) could end up
2292 with the wrong current pad and crash or give weird results. [perl #129881]
2296 Occasionally C<local()>s in a code block within a patterns weren't being
2297 undone when the pattern matching backtracked over the code block.
2302 Using C<substr()> to modify a magic variable could access freed memory
2303 in some cases. [perl #129340]
2307 Perl 5.25.9 was fixed so that under C<use utf8>, the entire Perl program
2308 is checked that the UTF-8 is wellformed. It turns out that several edge
2309 cases were missed, and are now fixed. [perl #126310] was the original
2314 Under C<use utf8>, the entire Perl program is now checked that the UTF-8
2315 is wellformed. This resolves [perl #126310].
2319 The range operator C<..> on strings now handles its arguments correctly when in
2320 the scope of the L<< C<unicode_strings>|feature/"The 'unicode_strings' feature" >>
2321 feature. The previous behaviour was sufficiently unexpected that we believe no
2322 correct program could have made use of it.
2326 The S<split> operator did not ensure enough space was allocated for
2327 its return value in scalar context. It could then write a single
2328 pointer immediately beyond the end of the memory block allocated for
2329 the stack. [perl #130262]
2333 Using a large code point with the C<W> pack template character with
2334 the current output position aligned at just the right point could
2335 cause a write a single zero byte immediately beyond the end of an
2336 allocated buffer. [perl #129149]
2340 Supplying the form picture argument as part of the form argument list
2341 where the picture specifies modifying the argument could cause an
2342 access to the new freed compiled form. [perl #129125]
2346 Fix a problem with sort's build-in compare, where it would not sort
2347 correctly with 64-bit integers, and non-long doubles. [perl #130335]
2351 Fix issues with /(?{ ... E<lt>E<lt>EOF })/ that broke Method-Signatures. [perl #130398]
2355 Fix a macro which caused syntax error on an EBCDIC build.
2359 Prevent tests from getting hung up on 'NonStop' option. [perl #130445]
2363 Fixed an assertion failure with C<chop> and C<chomp>, which
2364 could be triggered by C<chop(@x =~ tr/1/1/)>. [perl #130198].
2368 Fixed a comment skipping error under C</x>; it could stop skipping a
2369 byte early, which could be in the middle of a UTF-8 character.
2374 F<perldb> now ignores F</dev/tty> on non-Unix systems. [perl #113960];
2378 Fix assertion failure for C<{}-E<gt>$x> when C<$x> isn't defined. [perl #130496].
2382 DragonFly BSD now has support for setproctitle(). [perl #130068].
2386 Fix an assertion error which could be triggered when lookahead string
2387 in patterns exceeded a minimum length. [perl #130522].
2391 Only warn once per literal about a misplaced C<_>. [perl #70878].
2395 Ensure range-start is set after error in C<tr///>. [perl #129342].
2399 Don't read past start of string for unmatched backref; otherwise,
2400 we may have heap buffer overflow. [perl #129377].
2404 Properly recognize mathematical digit ranges starting at U+1D7E.
2405 C<use re 'strict'> is supposed to warn if you use a range whose start
2406 and end digit aren't from the same group of 10. It didn't do that
2407 for five groups of mathematical digits starting at U+1D7E.
2411 A sub containing a "forward" declaration with the same name (e.g.,
2412 C<sub c { sub c; }>) could sometimes crash or loop infinitely. [perl
2417 A crash in executing a regex with a floating UTF-8 substring against a
2418 target string that also used UTF-8 has been fixed. [perl #129350]
2422 Previously, a shebang line like C<#!perl -i u> could be erroneously
2423 interpreted as requesting the C<-u> option. This has been fixed. [perl
2428 The regex engine was previously producing incorrect results in some rare
2429 situations when backtracking past a trie that matches only one thing; this
2430 showed up as capture buffers (C<$1>, C<$2>, etc) erroneously containing data
2431 from regex execution paths that weren't actually executed for the final
2432 match. [perl #129897]
2436 Certain regexes making use of the experimental C<regex_sets> feature could
2437 trigger an assertion failure. This has been fixed. [perl #129322]
2441 Invalid assignments to a reference constructor (e.g., C<\eval=time>) could
2442 sometimes crash in addition to giving a syntax error. [perl #125679]
2446 The parser could sometimes crash if a bareword came after C<evalbytes>.
2451 Autoloading via a method call would warn erroneously ("Use of inherited
2452 AUTOLOAD for non-method") if there was a stub present in the package into
2453 which the invocant had been blessed. The warning is no longer emitted in
2454 such circumstances. [perl #47047]
2458 A sub containing with a "forward" declaration with the same name (e.g.,
2459 C<sub c { sub c; }>) could sometimes crash or loop infinitely. [perl
2464 The use of C<splice> on arrays with nonexistent elements could cause other
2465 operators to crash. [perl #129164]
2469 Fixed case where C<re_untuit_start> will overshoot the length of a utf8
2470 string. [perl #129012]
2474 Handle C<CXt_SUBST> better in C<Perl_deb_stack_all>, previously it wasn't
2475 checking that the I<current> C<cx> is the right type, and instead was always
2476 checking the base C<cx> (effectively a noop). [perl #129029]
2480 Fixed two possible use-after-free bugs in C<Perl_yylex>. C<Perl_yylex>
2481 maintains up to two pointers into the parser buffer, one of which can
2482 become stale under the right conditions. [perl #129069]
2486 Fixed a crash with C<s///l> where it thought it was dealing with UTF-8
2487 when it wasn't. [perl #129038]
2491 Fixed place where regex was not setting the syntax error correctly.
2496 The C<&.> operator (and the C<&> operator, when it treats its arguments as
2497 strings) were failing to append a trailing null byte if at least one string
2498 was marked as utf8 internally. Many code paths (system calls, regexp
2499 compilation) still expect there to be a null byte in the string buffer
2500 just past the end of the logical string. An assertion failure was the
2501 result. [perl #129287]
2505 Check C<pack_sockaddr_un()>'s return value because C<pack_sockaddr_un()>
2506 silently truncates the supplied path if it won't fit into the C<sun_path>
2507 member of C<sockaddr_un>. This may change in the future, but for now
2508 check the path in theC<sockaddr> matches the desired path, and skip if
2509 it doesn't. [perl #128095]
2513 Make sure C<PL_oldoldbufptr> is preserved in C<scan_heredoc()>. In some
2514 cases this is used in building error messages. [perl #128988]
2518 Check for null PL_curcop in IN_LC() [perl #129106]
2522 Fixed the parser error handling for an 'C<:attr(foo>' that does not have
2527 Fix C<Perl_delimcpy()> to handle a backslash as last char, this
2528 actually fixed two bugs, [perl #129064] and [perl #129176].
2532 [perl #129267] rework gv_fetchmethod_pvn_flags separator parsing to
2533 prevent possible string overrun with invalid len in gv.c
2537 Problems with in-place array sorts: code like C<@a = sort { ... } @a>,
2538 where the source and destination of the sort are the same plain array, are
2539 optimised to do less copying around. Two side-effects of this optimisation
2540 were that the contents of C<@a> as visible to to sort routine were
2541 partially sorted, and under some circumstances accessing C<@a> during the
2542 sort could crash the interpreter. Both these issues have been fixed, and
2543 Sort functions see the original value of C<@a>.
2547 Non-ASCII string delimiters are now reported correctly in error messages
2548 for unterminated strings. [perl #128701]
2552 C<pack("p", ...)> used to emit its warning ("Attempt to pack pointer to
2553 temporary value") erroneously in some cases, but has been fixed.
2557 C<@DB::args> is now exempt from "used once" warnings. The warnings only
2558 occurred under B<-w>, because F<warnings.pm> itself uses C<@DB::args>
2563 The use of built-in arrays or hash slices in a double-quoted string no
2564 longer issues a warning ("Possible unintended interpolation...") if the
2565 variable has not been mentioned before. This affected code like
2566 C<qq|@DB::args|> and C<qq|@SIG{'CHLD', 'HUP'}|>. (The special variables
2567 C<@-> and C<@+> were already exempt from the warning.)
2571 C<gethostent> and similar functions now perform a null check internally, to
2572 avoid crashing with torsocks. This was a regression from 5.22. [perl
2577 C<defined *{'!'}>, C<defined *{'['}>, and C<defined *{'-'}> no longer leak
2578 memory if the typeglob in question has never been accessed before.
2582 In 5.25.4 fchown() was changed not to accept negative one as an argument
2583 because in some platforms that is an error. However, in some other platforms
2584 that is an acceptable argument. This change has been reverted [perl #128967].
2588 Mentioning the same constant twice in a row (which is a syntax error) no
2589 longer fails an assertion under debugging builds. This was a regression
2590 from 5.20. [perl #126482]
2594 Many issues relating to C<printf "%a"> of hexadecimal floating point
2595 were fixed. In addition, the "subnormals" (formerly known as "denormals")
2596 floating point anumbers are now supported both with the plain IEEE 754
2597 floating point numbers (64-bit or 128-bit) and the x86 80-bit
2598 "extended precision". Note that subnormal hexadecimal floating
2599 point literals will give a warning about "exponent underflow".
2600 [perl #128843, #128889, #128890, #128893, #128909, #128919]
2604 A regression in 5.24 with C<tr/\N{U+...}/foo/> when the code point was between
2605 128 and 255 has been fixed. [perl #128734].
2609 A regression from the previous development release, 5.23.3, where
2610 compiling a regular expression could crash the interpreter has been
2611 fixed. [perl #128686].
2615 Use of a string delimiter whose code point is above 2**31 now works
2616 correctly on platforms that allow this. Previously, certain characters,
2617 due to truncation, would be confused with other delimiter characters
2618 with special meaning (such as C<?> in C<m?...?>), resulting
2619 in inconsistent behaviour. Note that this is non-portable,
2620 and is based on Perl's extension to UTF-8, and is probably not
2621 displayable nor enterable by any editor. [perl #128738]
2625 C<@{x> followed by a newline where C<x> represents a control or non-ASCII
2626 character no longer produces a garbled syntax error message or a crash.
2631 An assertion failure with C<%: = 0> has been fixed.
2632 L<[perl #128238]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128238>
2636 In Perl 5.18, the parsing of C<"$foo::$bar"> was accidentally changed, such
2637 that it would be treated as C<$foo."::".$bar>. The previous behavior, which
2638 was to parse it as C<$foo:: . $bar>, has been restored.
2639 L<[perl #128478]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128478>
2643 Since Perl 5.20, line numbers have been off by one when perl is invoked with
2644 the B<-x> switch. This has been fixed.
2645 L<[perl #128508]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128508>
2649 Vivifying a subroutine stub in a deleted stash (e.g., C<delete $My::{"Foo::"};
2650 \&My::Foo::foo>) no longer crashes. It had begun crashing in Perl 5.18.
2651 L<[perl #128532]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128532>
2655 Some obscure cases of subroutines and file handles being freed at the same time
2656 could result in crashes, but have been fixed. The crash was introduced in Perl
2658 L<[perl #128597]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128597>
2662 Code that looks for a variable name associated with an uninitialized value
2663 could cause an assertion in cases where magic is involved, such as
2664 C<$ISA[0][0]>. This has now been fixed.
2665 L<[perl #128253]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128253>
2669 A crash caused by code generating the warning "Subroutine STASH::NAME
2670 redefined" in cases such as C<sub P::f{} undef *P::; *P::f =sub{};> has been
2671 fixed. In these cases, where the STASH is missing, the warning will now appear
2672 as "Subroutine NAME redefined".
2673 L<[perl #128257]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128257>
2677 Fixed an assertion triggered by some code that handles deprecated behavior in
2678 formats, e.g. in cases like this:
2684 L<[perl #128255]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128255>
2688 A possible divide by zero in string transformation code on Windows has been
2689 avoided, fixing a crash when collating an empty string.
2690 L<[perl #128618]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128618>
2694 Some regular expression parsing glitches could lead to assertion failures with
2695 regular expressions such as C</(?E<lt>=/> and C</(?E<lt>!/>. This has now been fixed.
2696 L<[perl #128170]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128170>
2700 C< until ($x = 1) { ... } > and C< ... until $x = 1 > now properly
2701 warn when syntax warnings are enabled. [perl #127333]
2705 socket() now leaves the error code returned by the system in C<$!> on
2706 failure. [perl #128316]
2710 Assignment variants of any bitwise ops under the C<bitwise> feature would
2711 crash if the left-hand side was an array or hash. [perl #128204]
2715 C<require> followed by a single colon (as in C<foo() ? require : ...> is
2716 now parsed correctly as C<require> with implicit $_, rather than
2717 C<require "">. [perl #128307]
2721 Scalar C<keys %hash> can now be assigned to consistently in all scalar
2722 lvalue contexts. Previously it worked for some contexts but not others.
2726 List assignment to C<vec> or C<substr> with an array or hash for its first
2727 argument used to result in crashes or "Can't coerce" error messages at run
2728 time, unlike scalar assignment, which would give an error at compile time.
2729 List assignment now gives a compile-time error, too. [perl #128260]
2733 Expressions containing an C<&&> or C<||> operator (or their synonyms C<and>
2734 and C<or>) were being compiled incorrectly in some cases. If the left-hand
2735 side consisted of either a negated bareword constant or a negated C<do {}>
2736 block containing a constant expression, and the right-hand side consisted of
2737 a negated non-foldable expression, one of the negations was effectively
2738 ignored. The same was true of C<if> and C<unless> statement modifiers,
2739 though with the left-hand and right-hand sides swapped. This long-standing
2740 bug has now been fixed. [perl #127952]
2744 C<reset> with an argument no longer crashes when encountering stash entries
2745 other than globs. [perl #128106]
2749 Assignment of hashes to, and deletion of, typeglobs named C<*::::::> no
2750 longer causes crashes. [perl #128086]
2754 Handle SvIMMORTALs in LHS of list assign. [perl #129991]
2758 [perl #130010] a5540cf breaks texinfo
2760 This involved user-defined Unicode properties.
2764 Fix error message for unclosed C<\N{> in regcomp.
2766 An unclosed C<\N{> could give the wrong error message
2767 C<"\N{NAME} must be resolved by the lexer">.
2771 List assignment in list context where the LHS contained aggregates and
2772 where there were not enough RHS elements, used to skip scalar lvalues.
2773 Previously, C<(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (1))> in list context returned C<($a)>; now
2774 it returns C<($a,$b,$d)>. C<(($a,$b,$c) = (1))> is unchanged: it still
2775 returns C<($a,$b,$c)>. This can be seen in the following:
2777 sub inc { $_++ for @_ }
2778 inc(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (10))
2780 Formerly, the values of C<($a,$b,$d)> would be left as C<(11,undef,undef)>;
2781 now they are C<(11,1,1)>.
2787 The basic problem is that code like this: /(?{ s!!! })/ can trigger infinite
2788 recursion on the C stack (not the normal perl stack) when the last successful
2789 pattern in scope is itself. Since the C stack overflows this manifests as an
2790 untrappable error/segfault, which then kills perl.
2792 We avoid the segfault by simply forbidding the use of the empty pattern when it
2793 would resolve to the currently executing pattern.
2797 [perl 128997] Avoid reading beyond the end of the line buffer when there's a
2798 short UTF-8 character at the end.
2802 [perl 129950] fix firstchar bitmap under utf8 with prefix optimisation.
2806 [perl 129954] Carp/t/arg_string.t: be liberal in f/p formats.
2810 [perl 129928] make do "a\0b" fail silently instead of throwing.
2814 [perl 129130] make chdir allocate the stack it needs.
2818 =head1 Known Problems
2824 Some modules have been broken by the L<context stack rework|/Internal Changes>.
2825 These modules were relying on non-guaranteed implementation details in perl.
2826 Their maintainers have been informed, and should contact perl5-porters for
2827 advice if needed. Below is a subset of these modules:
2831 =item * L<Algorithm::Permute>
2835 L<Coro> and perl v5.22.0 were already incompatible due to a change in the perl,
2836 and the reworking on the perl context stack creates a further incompatibility.
2837 perl5-porters has L<discussed the issue on the mailing
2838 list|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236174.html>.
2840 =item * L<Data::Alias>
2844 =item * L<Scope::Upper>
2852 The module L<lexical::underscore> no longer works on perl v5.24.0, because perl
2853 no longer has a lexical C<$_>!
2857 C<mod_perl> has been patched for compatibility for v5.22.0 and later but no
2858 release has been made. The relevant patch (and other changes) can be found in
2859 their source code repository, L<mirrored at
2860 GitHub|https://github.com/apache/mod_perl/commit/82827132efd3c2e25cc413c85af61bb63375da6e>.
2864 =head1 Errata From Previous Releases
2870 Parsing bad POSIX charclasses no longer leaks memory. This was fixed in Perl
2872 L<[perl #128313]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=128313>
2876 Fixed issues with recursive regexes. The behavior was fixed in Perl 5.24.0.
2877 L<[perl #126182]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126182>
2883 Jon Portnoy (AVENJ), a prolific Perl author and admired Gentoo community
2884 member, has passed away on August 10, 2016. He will be remembered and
2885 missed by all those with which he came in contact and enriched with his
2886 intellect, wit, and spirit.
2888 It is with great sadness we also note Kip Hampton's passing.. Probably
2889 best known as the author of the Perl & XML column on XML.com, he was a
2890 core contributor to AxKit, an XML server platform that became an Apache
2891 Foundation project. He was a frequent speaker in the early days at
2892 OSCON, and most recently at YAPC::NA in Madison. He was frequently on
2893 irc.perl.org as `ubu`, generally in the #axkit-dahut community, the
2894 group responsible for YAPC::NA Asheville in 2011.
2896 Kip and his constant contributions to the community will be greatly
2899 =head1 Acknowledgements
2901 Perl 5.26.0 represents approximately 12 months of development since Perl 5.24.0
2902 and contains approximately 370,000 lines of changes across 2,600 files from 86
2905 Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
2906 approximately 230,000 lines of changes to 1,800 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
2908 Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
2909 of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the
2910 improvements that became Perl 5.24.1:
2912 Aaron Crane, Abigail, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Alex Vandiver, Andreas
2913 König, Andreas Voegele, Andrew Fresh, Andy Lester, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chad
2914 Granum, Chase Whitener, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Chris Lamb, Christian Hansen,
2915 Christian Millour, Colin Newell, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan
2916 Collins, Daniel Dragan, Dave Cross, Dave Rolsky, David Golden, David H.
2917 Gutteridge, David Mitchell, Dominic Hargreaves, Doug Bell, E. Choroba, Ed Avis,
2918 Father Chrysostomos, François Perrad, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der
2919 Sanden, Ivan Pozdeev, James E Keenan, James Raspass, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Jerry
2920 D. Hedden, Jim Cromie, J. Nick Koston, John Lightsey, Karen Etheridge, Karl
2921 Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Matthew Horsfall, Maxwell Carey, Misty
2922 De Meo, Neil Bowers, Nicholas Clark, Nicolas R., Niko Tyni, Pali, Paul
2923 Marquess, Peter Avalos, Petr Písař, Pino Toscano, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Reini
2924 Urban, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Levitte, Rick Delaney, Salvador
2925 Fandiño, Samuel Thibault, Sawyer X, Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni, Sergey
2926 Aleynikov, Shlomi Fish, Smylers, Stefan Seifert, Steffen Müller, Stevan
2927 Little, Steve Hay, Steven Humphrey, Sullivan Beck, Theo Buehler, Thomas Sibley,
2928 Todd Rinaldo, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Unicode Consortium, Yaroslav Kuzmin,
2931 The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
2932 from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
2933 the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
2936 Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
2937 included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
2938 helping Perl to flourish.
2940 For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
2941 the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
2943 =head1 Reporting Bugs
2945 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently
2946 posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at
2947 L<https://rt.perl.org/> . There may also be information at
2948 L<http://www.perl.org/> , the Perl Home Page.
2950 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L<perlbug> program
2951 included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but
2952 sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of C<perl -V>,
2953 will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team.
2955 If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
2956 inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see
2957 L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION>
2958 for details of how to report the issue.
2962 The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
2965 The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
2967 The F<README> file for general stuff.
2969 The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.