4 This has been completed up to 518a985, except for:
5 04777d295957ad270188e4debf51b523e07cc5b0
6 c565ab54dc649bb62cd4d57149d7b2abb21df5f3
7 1c8d11ca3d0ce8bc11562f159b94c2c7e62dea6c
8 1830b3d9c87f8b1473b0a80759846f7a5dccae5a
9 I may have missed a few module version bumps.
13 [ this is a template for a new perldelta file. Any text flagged as
14 XXX needs to be processed before release. ]
16 perldelta - what is new for perl v5.13.7
20 This document describes differences between the 5.13.6 release and
23 If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.13.5, first read
24 L<perl5136delta>, which describes differences between 5.13.5 and
29 XXX Any important notices here
31 =head1 Core Enhancements
33 XXX New core language features go here. Summarise user-visible core language
34 enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go
35 here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section.
37 [ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ]
39 =head2 Single term prototype
41 The C<+> prototype is a special alternative to C<$> that will act like
42 C<\[@%]> when given a literal array or hash variable, but will otherwise
43 force scalar context on the argument. This is useful for functions which
44 should accept either a literal array or an array reference as the argument:
48 die "Not an array or arrayref" unless ref $aref eq 'ARRAY';
52 When using the C<+> prototype, your function must check that the argument
53 is of an acceptable type.
55 =head2 C<use re '/flags';>
57 The C<re> pragma now has the ability to turn on regular expression flags
58 till the end of the lexical scope:
61 "foo" =~ / (.+) /; # /x implied
63 See L<re/'/flags' mode> for details.
65 =head2 Statement labels can appear in more places
67 Statement labels can now occur before any type of statement or declaration,
70 =head2 C<use feature "unicode_strings"> now applies to more regex matching
72 Another chunk of the L<perlunicode/The "Unicode Bug"> is fixed in this
73 release. Now, regular expressions compiled within the scope of the
74 "unicode_strings" feature (or under the "u" regex modifier (specifiable
75 currently only with infix notation C<(?u:...)> or via C<use re '/u'>)
76 will match the same whether or not the target string is encoded in utf8,
77 with regard to C<[[:posix:]]> character classes
79 Work is underway to add the case sensitive matching to the control of
80 this feature, but was not complete in time for this dot release.
82 =head2 Array and hash container functions accept references
84 All built-in functions that operate directly on array or hash
85 containers now also accept hard references to arrays or hashes:
87 |----------------------------+---------------------------|
88 | Traditional syntax | Terse syntax |
89 |----------------------------+---------------------------|
90 | push @$arrayref, @stuff | push $arrayref, @stuff |
91 | unshift @$arrayref, @stuff | unshift $arrayref, @stuff |
92 | pop @$arrayref | pop $arrayref |
93 | shift @$arrayref | shift $arrayref |
94 | splice @$arrayref, 0, 2 | splice $arrayref, 0, 2 |
95 | keys %$hashref | keys $hashref |
96 | keys @$arrayref | keys $arrayref |
97 | values %$hashref | values $hashref |
98 | values @$arrayref | values $arrayref |
99 | ($k,$v) = each %$hashref | ($k,$v) = each $hashref |
100 | ($k,$v) = each @$arrayref | ($k,$v) = each $arrayref |
101 |----------------------------+---------------------------|
103 This allows these built-in functions to act on long dereferencing chains
104 or on the return value of subroutines without needing to wrap them in
107 push @{$obj->tags}, $new_tag; # old way
108 push $obj->tags, $new_tag; # new way
110 for ( keys %{$hoh->{genres}{artists}} ) {...} # old way
111 for ( keys $hoh->{genres}{artists} ) {...} # new way
113 For C<push>, C<unshift> and C<splice>, the reference will auto-vivify
114 if it is not defined, just as if it were wrapped with C<@{}>.
116 Calling C<keys> or C<values> directly on a reference gives a substantial
117 performance improvement over explicit dereferencing.
119 For C<keys>, C<values>, C<each>, when overloaded dereferencing is
120 present, the overloaded dereference is used instead of dereferencing the
121 underlying reftype. Warnings are issued about assumptions made in the
122 following three ambiguous cases:
124 (a) If both %{} and @{} overloading exists, %{} is used
125 (b) If %{} overloading exists on a blessed arrayref, %{} is used
126 (c) If @{} overloading exists on a blessed hashref, @{} is used
130 The C</r> flag, which was added to C<s///> in 5.13.2, has been extended to
131 the C<y///> operator.
133 It causes it to perform the substitution on a I<copy> of its operand,
134 returning that copy instead of a character count.
136 =head2 New global variable C<${^GLOBAL_PHASE}>
138 A new global variable, C<${^GLOBAL_PHASE}>, has been added to allow
139 introspection of the current phase of the perl interpreter. It's explained in
140 detail in L<perlvar/"${^GLOBAL_PHASE}"> and
141 L<perlmod/"BEGIN, UNITCHECK, CHECK, INIT and END">.
145 XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security
146 vulnerabilities closed should be noted here rather than in the
147 L</Selected Bug Fixes> section.
149 [ List each security issue as a =head2 entry ]
151 =head1 Incompatible Changes
153 XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be:
155 There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX. If any
156 exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome.
158 [ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ]
160 =head2 Dereferencing typeglobs
162 If you assign a typeglob to a scalar variable:
166 the glob that is copied to C<$glob> is marked with a special flag
167 indicating that the glob is just a copy. This allows subsequent assignments
168 to C<$glob> to overwrite the glob. The original glob, however, is
171 Many Perl operators did not distinguish between these two types of globs.
172 This would result in strange behaviour in edge cases: C<untie $scalar>
173 would do nothing if the last thing assigned to the scalar was a glob
174 (because it treated it as C<untie *$scalar>, which unties a handle).
175 Assignment to a glob slot (e.g., C<(*$glob) = \@some_array>) would simply
176 assign C<\@some_array> to C<$glob>.
178 To fix this, the C<*{}> operator (including the C<*foo> and C<*$foo> forms)
179 has been modified to make a new immutable glob if its operand is a glob
180 copy. Various operators that make a distinction between globs and scalars
181 have been modified to treat only immutable globs as globs.
183 This causes an incompatible change in code that assigns a glob to the
184 return value of C<*{}> when that operator was passed a glob copy. Take the
185 following code, for instance:
190 The C<*$glob> on the second line returns a new immutable glob. That new
191 glob is made an alias to C<*bar>. Then it is discarded. So the second
192 assignment has no effect.
194 The upside to this incompatible change is that bugs
195 L<[perl #77496]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77496>,
196 L<[perl #77502]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77502>,
197 L<[perl #77508]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77508>,
198 L<[perl #77688]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77688>,
200 L<[perl #77812]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77812>,
201 and maybe others, too, have been fixed.
203 See L<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77810> for even
206 =head2 Clearing stashes
208 Stash list assignment C<%foo:: = ()> used to make the stash anonymous
209 temporarily while it was being emptied. Consequently, any of its
210 subroutines referenced elsewhere would become anonymous (showing up as
211 "(unknown)" in C<caller>). Now they retain their package names, such that
212 C<caller> will return the original sub name if there is still a reference
213 to its typeglob, or "foo::__ANON__" otherwise
214 L<[perl #79208]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=79208>.
218 XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here.
219 In particular, deprecated modules should be listed here even if they are
220 listed as an updated module in the L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
222 [ List each deprecation as a =head2 entry ]
224 =head1 Performance Enhancements
226 XXX Changes which enhance performance without changing behaviour go here. There
227 may well be none in a stable release.
229 [ List each enhancement as a =item entry ]
235 When an object has many weak references to it, freeing that object
236 can under some some circumstances take O(N^2) time to free (where N is the
237 number of references). The number of circumstances has been reduced.
238 L<[perl #75254]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75254>.
242 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
244 XXX All changes to installed files in F<cpan/>, F<dist/>, F<ext/> and F<lib/>
245 go here. If Module::CoreList is updated, generate an initial draft of the
246 following sections using F<Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl>, which prints stub
247 entries to STDOUT. Results can be pasted in place of the '=head2' entries
248 below. A paragraph summary for important changes should then be added by hand.
249 In an ideal world, dual-life modules would have a F<Changes> file that could be
252 [ Within each section, list entries as a =item entry ]
254 =head2 New Modules and Pragmata
260 The following modules were added by the C<Unicode::Collate>
261 upgrade from 0.63 to 0.67. See below for details.
263 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Big5>
265 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::GB2312>
267 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::JISX0208>
269 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Korean>
271 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Pinyin>
273 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Stroke>
277 =head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
283 C<Archive::Extract> has been upgraded from 0.44 to 0.46
285 Resolves an issue with NetBSD-current and its new unzip
290 C<Archive::Tar> has been upgraded from 1.68 to 1.70
292 This adds the ptargrep utility for using regular expressions against
293 the contents of files in a tar archive.
297 C<B> has been upgraded from 1.24 to 1.26.
299 It no longer crashes when taking apart a C<y///> containing characters
300 outside the octet range or compiled in a C<use utf8> scope.
304 C<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from 0.99 to 1.01.
306 It fixes deparsing of C<our> followed by a variable with funny characters
307 (as permitted under the C<utf8> pragma)
308 L<[perl #33752]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=33752>.
312 C<CGI> has been upgraded from 3.49 to 3.50
314 This provides the following security fixes: the MIME boundary in
315 multipart_init is now random and improvements to the handling of
316 newlines embedded in header values.
318 The documentation for param_fetch() has been corrected and clarified.
322 C<CPAN> has been upgraded from 1.94_61 to 1.94_62
326 C<CPANPLUS> has been upgraded from 0.9007 to 0.9010
328 Fixes for the SQLite source engine and resolving of issues with the
329 testsuite when run under local::lib and/or cpanminus
333 C<CPANPLUS::Dist::Build> has been upgraded from 0.48 to 0.50
337 C<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from 2.129 to 2.130.
341 C<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from 1.10 to 1.11.
343 It fixes a buffer overflow when passed a very long file name.
347 C<ExtUtils::Constant> has been upgraded from 0.22 to 0.23.
351 C<Fcntl> has been upgraded from 1.09 to 1.10.
355 C<File::Fetch> has been upgraded from 0.24 to 0.28
357 C<HTTP::Lite> is now supported for 'http' scheme.
359 The C<fetch> utility is supported on FreeBSD, NetBSD and
360 Dragonfly BSD for the C<http> and C<ftp> schemes.
364 C<File::Glob> has been upgraded from 1.09 to 1.10.
368 C<File::stat> has been upgraded from 1.03 to 1.04.
370 The C<-x> and C<-X> file test operators now work correctly under the root
375 C<GDBM_File> has been upgraded from 1.11 to 1.12.
377 This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
381 C<Hash::Util> has been upgraded from 0.09 to 0.10.
385 C<Hash::Util::FieldHash> has been upgraded from 1.05 to 1.06.
389 C<I18N::Langinfo> has been upgraded from 0.06 to 0.07.
393 C<Locale::Maketext> has been upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17.
397 C<Math::BigInt> has been upgraded from 1.97 to 1.99.
401 C<Math::BigInt::FastCalc> has been upgraded from 0.22 to 0.24.
405 C<MIME::Base64> has been upgraded from 3.09 to 3.10
407 Includes new functions to calculate the length of encoded and decoded
412 C<mro> has been upgraded from 1.04 to 1.05.
416 C<NDBM_File> has been upgraded from 1.09 to 1.10.
418 This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
422 C<ODBM_File> has been upgraded from 1.08 to 1.09.
424 This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
428 C<Opcode> has been upgraded from 1.16 to 1.17.
432 C<parent> has been upgraded from 0.223 to 0.224
436 C<Pod::Simple> has been upgraded from 3.14 to 3.15
438 Includes various fixes to C<HTML> and C<XHTML> handling.
442 C<POSIX> has been upgraded from 1.21 to 1.22.
446 C<re> has been upgraded from 0.13 to 0.14, for the sake of the new
447 C<use re "/flags"> pragma.
451 C<Safe> has been upgraded from 2.28 to 2.29.
453 It adds C<&version::vxs::VCMP> to the default share.
457 C<SDBM_File> has been upgraded from 1.07 to 1.08.
461 C<SelfLoader> has been upgraded from 1.17 to 1.18.
463 It now works in taint mode
464 L<[perl #72062]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72062>.
468 C<Socket> has been upgraded from 1.90 to 1.91.
472 C<Storable> has been upgraded from 2.22 to 2.24
474 Includes performance improvement for overloaded classes.
478 C<Sys::Hostname> has been upgraded from 1.13 to 1.14.
482 C<Unicode::Collate> has been upgraded from 0.63 to 0.67
484 This release newly adds locales C<ja> C<ko> and C<zh> and its variants
485 ( C<zh__big5han>, C<zh__gb2312han>, C<zh__pinyin>, C<zh__stroke> ).
487 Supported UCA_Version 22 for Unicode 6.0.0.
489 The following modules have been added:
491 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Big5> for C<zh__big5han> which makes
492 tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's big5han ordering.
494 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::GB2312> for C<zh__gb2312han> which makes
495 tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's gb2312han ordering.
497 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::JISX0208> which makes tailoring of 6355 kanji
498 (CJK Unified Ideographs) in the JIS X 0208 order.
500 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Korean> which makes tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs
501 in the order of CLDR's Korean ordering.
503 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Pinyin> for C<zh__pinyin> which makes
504 tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's pinyin ordering.
506 C<Unicode::Collate::CJK::Stroke> for C<zh__stroke> which makes
507 tailoring of CJK Unified Ideographs in the order of CLDR's stroke ordering.
511 =head2 Removed Modules and Pragmata
523 XXX Changes to files in F<pod/> go here. Consider grouping entries by
524 file and be sure to link to the appropriate page, e.g. L<perlfunc>.
526 L<perlvar> reorders the variables and groups them by topic. Each variable
527 introduced after Perl 5.000 notes the first version in which it is
528 available. L<perlvar> also has a new section for deprecated variables to
529 note when they were removed.
531 =head2 New Documentation
533 XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<pod/> go here.
537 XXX Description of the purpose of the new file here
539 =head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
541 XXX Changes which significantly change existing files in F<pod/> go here.
542 However, any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in the L</Diagnostics>
549 Array and hash slices in scalar context are now documented in L<perldata>.
553 L<perlform> and L<perllocale> have been corrected to state that
554 C<use locale> affects formats.
564 XXX Description of the change here
570 The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
571 including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
572 diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
574 XXX New or changed warnings emitted by the core's C<C> code go here. Also
575 include any changes in L<perldiag> that reconcile it to the C<C> code.
577 [ Within each section, list entries as a =item entry ]
579 =head2 New Diagnostics
581 XXX Newly added diagnostic messages go here
587 "Using !~ with %s doesn't make sense": This message was actually added in
588 5.13.2, but was omitted from perldelta. It now applies also to the C<y///>
589 operator, and has been documented.
593 =head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
595 XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here
605 =head1 Utility Changes
607 XXX Changes to installed programs such as F<perlbug> and F<xsubpp> go
608 here. Most of these are built within the directories F<utils> and F<x2p>.
610 [ List utility changes as a =head3 entry for each utility and =item
611 entries for each change
612 Use L<XXX> with program names to get proper documentation linking. ]
620 L<ptargrep> is a utility to apply pattern matching to the contents of files
621 in a tar archive. It comes with C<Archive::Tar>.
625 =head1 Configuration and Compilation
627 XXX Changes to F<Configure>, F<installperl>, F<installman>, and analogous tools
628 go here. Any other changes to the Perl build process should be listed here.
629 However, any platform-specific changes should be listed in the
630 L</Platform Support> section, instead.
632 [ List changes as a =item entry ].
644 XXX Any significant changes to the testing of a freshly built perl should be
645 listed here. Changes which create B<new> files in F<t/> go here as do any
646 large changes to the testing harness (e.g. when parallel testing was added).
647 Changes to existing files in F<t/> aren't worth summarising, although the bugs
648 that they represent may be covered elsewhere.
650 [ List each test improvement as a =item entry ]
656 The new F<t/mro/isa_aliases.t> has been added, which tests that
657 C<*Foo::ISA = *Bar::ISA> works properly.
661 F<t/mro/isarev.t> has been added, which tests that C<PL_isarev> (accessible
662 at the Perl level via C<mro::get_isarev>) is updated properly.
666 F<t/run/switchd-78586.t> has been added, which tests that
667 L<[perl #78586]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78586>
668 has been fixed (related to line numbers in the debbuger).
672 =head1 Platform Support
674 XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below.
676 [ Within the sections, list each platform as a =item entry with specific
677 changes as paragraphs below it. ]
681 XXX List any platforms that this version of perl compiles on, that previous
682 versions did not. These will either be enabled by new files in the F<hints/>
683 directories, or new subdirectories and F<README> files at the top level of the
688 =item XXX-some-platform
694 =head2 Discontinued Platforms
696 XXX List any platforms that this version of perl no longer compiles on.
700 =item XXX-some-platform
706 =head2 Platform-Specific Notes
708 XXX List any changes for specific platforms. This could include configuration
709 and compilation changes or changes in portability/compatibility. However,
710 changes within modules for platforms should generally be listed in the
711 L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
717 Directory handles are now properly cloned when threads are created. In perl
718 5.13.6, child threads simply stopped inheriting directory handles. In
719 previous versions, threads would share handles, resulting in crashes.
721 Building with Visual C++ 2010 is now supported.
725 =head1 Internal Changes
727 XXX Changes which affect the interface available to C<XS> code go here.
728 Other significant internal changes for future core maintainers should
731 [ List each test improvement as a =item entry ]
737 C<lex_start> has been added to the API, but is considered experimental.
741 A new C<parse_block> function has been added to the API
742 L<[perl #78222]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78222>.
746 A new, experimental API has been added for accessing the internal
747 structure that Perl uses for C<%^H>. See the functions beginning with
748 C<cophh_> in L<perlapi>.
752 A stash can now have a list of effective names in addition to its usual
753 name. The first effective name can be accessed via the C<HvENAME> macro,
754 which is now the recommended name to use in MRO linearisations (C<HvNAME>
755 being a fallback if there is no C<HvENAME>).
757 These names are added and deleted via C<hv_ename_add> and
758 C<hv_ename_delete>. These two functions are I<not> part of the API.
762 The way the parser handles labels has been cleaned up and refactored. As a
763 result, the C<newFOROP()> constructor function no longer takes a parameter
764 stating what label is to go in the state op.
768 The C<newWHILEOP()> and C<newFOROP()> functions no longer accept a line
769 number as a parameter.
773 A new C<parse_barestmt()> function has been added, for parsing a statement
778 A new C<parse_label()> function has been added, that parses a statement
779 label, separate from statements.
783 The C<CvSTASH()> macro can now only be used as an rvalue. C<CvSTASH_set()>
784 has been added to replace assignment to C<CvSTASH()>. This is to ensure
785 that backreferences are handled properly. These macros are not part of the
790 The C<op_scope()> and C<op_lvalue()> functions have been added to the API,
791 but are considered experimental.
795 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
797 XXX Important bug fixes in the core language are summarised here.
798 Bug fixes in files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarised in
799 L</Modules and Pragmata>.
801 [ List each fix as a =item entry ]
807 The C<parse_stmt> C function added in earlier in the 5.13.x series has been
808 fixed to work with statements ending with C<}>
809 L<[perl #78222]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78222>.
813 The C<parse_fullstmt> C function added in 5.13.5 has been fixed to work
814 when called while an expression is being parsed.
818 Characters in the Latin-1 non-ASCII range (0x80 to 0xFF) used not to match
819 themselves if the string happened to be UTF8-encoded internally, the
820 regular expression was not, and the character in the regular expression was
821 inside a repeated group (e.g.,
822 C<Encode::decode_utf8("\303\200") =~ /(\xc0)+/>)
823 L<[perl #78464]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78464>.
827 The C<(?d)> regular expression construct now overrides a previous C<(?u)>
828 or C<use feature "unicode_string">
829 L<[perl #78508]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78508>.
833 A memory leak in C<do "file">, introduced in perl 5.13.6, has been fixed
834 L<[perl #78488]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78488>.
838 Various bugs related to typeglob dereferencing have been fixed. See
839 L</Dereferencing typeglobs>, above.
843 The C<SvPVbyte> function available to XS modules now calls magic before
844 downgrading the SV, to avoid warnings about wide characters
845 L<[perl #72398]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72398>.
849 The C<=> operator used to ignore magic (e.g., tie methods) on its
850 right-hand side if the scalar happened to hold a typeglob. This could
851 happen if a typeglob was the last thing returned from or assigned to a tied
853 L<[perl #77498]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77498>.
857 C<sprintf> was ignoring locales when called with constant arguments
858 L<[perl #78632]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78632>.
862 A non-ASCII character in the Latin-1 range could match both a Posix
863 class, such as C<[[:alnum:]]>, and its inverse C<[[:^alnum:]]>. This is
864 now fixed for regular expressions compiled under the C<"u"> modifier.
865 See L</C<use feature "unicode_strings"> now applies to more regex matching>.
866 L<[perl #18281]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18281>.
870 Concatenating long strings under C<use encoding> no longer causes perl to
872 L<[perl #78674]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78674>.
876 Typeglob assignments would crash if the glob's stash no longer existed, so
877 long as the glob assigned to was named 'ISA' or the glob on either side of
878 the assignment contained a subroutine.
882 Calling C<< ->import >> on a class lacking an import method could corrupt the stack result in strange behaviour. For instance,
884 push @a, "foo", $b = bar->import;
886 would assign 'foo' to C<$b>
887 L<[perl #63790]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=63790>.
891 Creating an alias to a package when that package had been detached from the
892 symbol table would result in corrupted isa caches
893 L<[perl #77358]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77358>.
897 C<.=> followed by C<< <> >> or C<readline> would leak memory if C<$/>
898 contained characters beyond the octet range and the scalar assigned to
899 happened to be encoded as UTF8 internally
900 L<[perl #72246]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72246>.
904 The C<recv> function could crash when called with the MSG_TRUNC flag
905 L<[perl #75082]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75082>.
909 Evaluating a simple glob (like C<*a>) was calling get-magic on the glob,
910 even when its contents were not being used
911 L<[perl #78580]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78580>.
913 This bug was introduced in 5.13.2 and did not affect earlier perl versions.
917 Matching a Unicode character against an alternation containing characters
918 that happened to match continuation bytes in the former's UTF8
919 representation (C<qq{\x{30ab}} =~ /\xab|\xa9/>) would cause erroneous
921 L<[perl #70998]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=70998>.
925 C<s///r> (added in 5.13.2) no longer leaks.
929 The trie optimisation was not taking empty groups into account, preventing
930 'foo' from matching C</\A(?:(?:)foo|bar|zot)\z/>
931 L<[perl #78356]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78356>.
935 A pattern containing a C<+> inside a lookahead would sometimes cause an
936 incorrect match failure in a global match (e.g., C</(?=(\S+))/g>)
937 L<[perl #68564]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68564>.
941 Iterating with C<foreach> over an array returned by an lvalue sub now works
942 L<[perl #23790]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=23790>.
946 C<$@> is now localised during calls to C<binmode> to prevent action at a
948 L<[perl #78844]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=78844>.
952 C<PL_isarev>, which is accessible to Perl via C<mro::get_isarev> is now
953 updated properly when packages are deleted or removed from the C<@ISA> of
954 other classes. This allows many packages to be created and deleted without
955 causing a memory leak
956 L<[perl #75176]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=75176>.
960 C<undef *Foo::> and C<undef *Foo::ISA> and C<delete $package::{ISA}>
961 used not to update the internal isa caches if the
962 stash or C<@ISA> array had a reference elsewhere. In
963 fact, C<undef *Foo::ISA> would stop a new C<@Foo::ISA> array from updating
968 C<@ISA> arrays can now be shared between classes via
969 C<*Foo::ISA = \@Bar::ISA> or C<*Foo::ISA = *Bar::ISA>
970 L<[perl #77238]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77238>.
974 The parser no longer hangs when encountering certain Unicode characters,
976 L<[perl #74022]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74022>.
980 C<formline> no longer crashes when passed a tainted format picture. It also
981 taints C<$^A> now if its arguments are tainted
982 L<[perl #79138]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=79138>.
986 A signal handler called within a signal handler could cause leaks or
987 double-frees. Now fixed.
988 L<[perl #76248]|http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=76248>.
992 =head1 Known Problems
994 XXX Descriptions of platform agnostic bugs we know we can't fix go here. Any
995 tests that had to be C<TODO>ed for the release would be noted here, unless
996 they were specific to a particular platform (see below).
998 This is a list of some significant unfixed bugs, which are regressions
999 from either 5.XXX.XXX or 5.XXX.XXX.
1001 [ List each fix as a =item entry ]
1013 XXX If any significant core contributor has died, we've added a short obituary
1016 Randy Kobes, creator of the kobesearch alternative to search.cpan.org and
1017 contributor/maintainer to several core Perl toolchain modules, passed away
1018 on September 18, 2010 after a battle with lung cancer. His contributions
1019 to the Perl community will be missed.
1021 =head1 Acknowledgements
1023 XXX The list of people to thank goes here.
1025 =head1 Reporting Bugs
1027 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
1028 recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
1029 bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be
1030 information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
1032 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
1033 program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
1034 to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the
1035 output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
1036 analysed by the Perl porting team.
1038 If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it
1039 inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send
1040 it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription
1041 unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who be able
1042 to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help
1043 co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all
1044 platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for
1045 security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently
1046 distributed on CPAN.
1050 The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details
1053 The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
1055 The F<README> file for general stuff.
1057 The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.