5 perl5299delta - what is new for perl v5.29.9
9 This document describes differences between the 5.29.8 release and the 5.29.9
12 If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.29.7, first read
13 L<perl5298delta>, which describes differences between 5.29.7 and 5.29.8.
15 =head1 Core Enhancements
17 =head2 Wildcards in Unicode property value specifications are now
20 You can now do something like this in a regular expression pattern
22 qr! \p{nv= /(?x) \A [0-5] \z / }!
24 which matches all Unicode code points which have numeric value is
25 between 0 and 5 inclusive.
27 This marks another step in implementing the regular expression features
28 the Unicode Consortium suggests.
30 Most properties are supported, with the remainder planned for 5.32.
31 Details are in L<perlunicode/Wildcards in Property Values>.
33 =head2 qr'\N{name}' is now supported
35 Previously it was an error to evaluate a named character C<\N{...}>
36 within a single quoted regular expression pattern (whose evaluation is
37 deferred from the normal place). This restriction is now removed.
39 =head2 Unicode 12.0 is supported
41 For details, see L<https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode12.0.0/>.
43 Because of a change in Unicode release cycles, Perl jumps from Unicode
44 10.0 in Perl 5.28 to Unicode 12.0 in Perl 5.30.
46 =head2 It is now possible to compile perl to always use thread-safe
49 Previously, these calls were only used when the perl was compiled to be
50 multi-threaded. To always enable them, add
52 -Accflags='-DUSE_THREAD_SAFE_LOCALE'
54 to your F<Configure> flags.
59 =head2 Variable length lookbehind in regular expression pattern matching
60 is now experimentally supported
62 Using a lookbehind assertion (like C<(?<=foo?)> or C<(?<!ba{1,9}r)> previously
63 would generate an error and refuse to compile. Now it compiles (if the
64 maximum lookbehind is at most 255 characters), but raises a warning in
65 the new C<experimental::vlb> warnings category. This is to caution you
66 that the precise behavior is subject to change based on feedback from
69 See L<perlre/(?<=pattern)> and L<perlre/(?<!pattern)>.
71 =head1 Incompatible Changes
73 =head2 C<pack()> no longer can return malformed UTF-8
75 It croaks if it would otherwise return a UTF-8 string that contains
76 malformed UTF-8. This protects agains potential security threats. This
77 is considered a bug fix as well ([perl #131642]).
79 =head2 Any set of digits in the Common script are legal in a script run
82 There are several sets of digits in the Common script. C<[0-9]> is the
83 most familiar. But there are also C<[\x{FF10}-\x{FF19}]> (FULLWIDTH
84 DIGIT ZERO - FULLWIDTH DIGIT NINE), and several sets for use in
85 mathematical notation, such as the MATHEMATICAL DOUBLE-STRUCK DIGITs.
86 Any of these sets should be able to appear in script runs of, say,
87 Greek. But the design of 5.30 overlooked all but the ASCII digits
88 C<[0-9]>, so the design was flawed. This has been fixed, so is both a
89 bug fix and an incompatibility. [perl #133547]
91 All digits in a run still have to come from the same set of ten digits.
93 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
95 =head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
101 L<Devel::PPPort> has been upgraded from version 3.44 to 3.45.
105 L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 3.00 to 3.01.
109 L<ExtUtils::Manifest> has been upgraded from version 1.71 to 1.72.
113 L<JSON::PP> has been upgraded from version 4.00 to 4.02.
117 L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20190220 to 5.20190320.
121 L<perl5db.pl> has been upgraded from version 1.54 to 1.55.
123 Debugging threaded code no longer deadlocks in C<DB::sub> nor
128 L<PerlIO::encoding> has been upgraded from version 0.26 to 0.27.
130 Warnings enabled by setting the C<WARN_ON_ERR> flag in
131 C<$PerlIO::encoding::fallback> are now only produced if warnings are
132 enabled with C<use warnings "utf8";> or setting C<$^W>.
136 L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.59 to 1.60.
138 Added support for extra tracing of locking, this requires a
139 C<-DDEBUGGING> and extra compilation flags.
143 L<utf8> has been upgraded from version 1.21 to 1.22.
147 L<warnings> has been upgraded from version 1.43 to 1.44.
153 The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
154 including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
155 diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
157 =head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
163 Specifying C<\o{}> without anything between the braces now yields the
164 fatal error message "Empty \o{}". Previously it was "Number with no
165 digits". This means the same wording is used for this kind of error as
166 with similar constructs such as C<\p{}>.
170 Within the scope of the experimental feature C<use re 'strict'>,
171 specifying C<\x{}> without anything between the braces now yields the
172 fatal error message "Empty \x{}". Previously it was "Number with no
173 digits". This means the same wording is used for this kind of error as
174 with similar constructs such as C<\p{}>. It is legal, though not wise
175 to have an empty C<\x> outside of C<re 'strict'>; it silently generates
180 =head1 Internal Changes
186 Added C<newSVsv_nomg()> to copy a SV without processing get magic on
187 the source. [perl #132964]
191 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
197 C<pack()> no longer can return malformed UTF-8. It croaks if it would
198 otherwise return a UTF-8 string that contains malformed UTF-8. This
199 protects agains potential security threats. [perl #131642]
203 See L</Any set of digits in the Common script are legal in a script run
208 =head1 Acknowledgements
210 Perl 5.29.9 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl
211 5.29.8 and contains approximately 47,000 lines of changes across 210 files
214 Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
215 approximately 38,000 lines of changes to 71 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
217 Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
218 community of users and developers. The following people are known to have
219 contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.29.9:
221 Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan
222 Kogai, David Mitchell, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Nicolas R., Pali,
223 Tony Cook, Unicode Consortium.
225 The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
226 generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include
227 the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to
228 the Perl bug tracker.
230 Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
231 included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
232 helping Perl to flourish.
234 For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please
235 see the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
237 =head1 Reporting Bugs
239 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database
240 at L<https://rt.perl.org/>. There may also be information at
241 L<http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
243 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the L<perlbug> program
244 included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but
245 sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of C<perl -V>,
246 will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team.
248 If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
249 inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then see
250 L<perlsec/SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION>
251 for details of how to report the issue.
255 If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5,
256 you can do so by running the C<perlthanks> program:
260 This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.
264 The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
267 The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl.
269 The F<README> file for general stuff.
271 The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information.