=head2 Fix out of boundary access in Win32 path handling
This is CVE-2015-8608. For more information see
-L<[perl #126755]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126755>
+L<[GH #15067]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15067>
=head2 Fix loss of taint in canonpath
This is CVE-2015-8607. For more information see
-L<[perl #126862]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126862>
+L<[GH #15084]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15084>
=head2 Avoid accessing uninitialized memory in win32 C<crypt()>
Added validation that will detect both a short salt and invalid characters
in the salt.
-L<[perl #126922]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126922>
+L<[GH #15091]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15091>
=head2 Remove duplicate environment variables from C<environ>
my ($x, my($y));
our (my $x);
-L<[perl #125587]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125587>
+L<[GH #14799]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14799>
-L<[perl #121058]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121058>
+L<[GH #13548]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/13548>
=head2 The C</\C/> character class has been removed.
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Better explain meaning of negative PIDs in C<waitpid>.
-L<[perl #127080]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127080>
+L<[GH #15108]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15108>
=item *
The documentation of C<$@> was reworded to clarify that it is not just for
syntax errors in C<eval>.
-L<[perl #124034]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124034>
+L<[GH #14572]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14572>
=item *
Accessing the C<IO> part of a glob as C<FILEHANDLE> instead of C<IO> is no
longer deprecated. It is discouraged to encourage uniformity (so that, for
example, one can grep more easily) but it will not be removed.
-L<[perl #127060]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127060>
+L<[GH #15105]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15105>
=item *
F<Configure> no longer probes for F<libnm> by default. Originally
this was the "New Math" library, but the name has been re-used by the
GNOME NetworkManager.
-L<[perl #127131]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127131>
+L<[GH #15115]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15115>
=item *
=item *
Tests are more robust against unusual cygdrive prefixes.
-L<[perl #126834]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126834>
+L<[GH #15076]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15076>
=back
=item *
Use the C<fdclose()> function from FreeBSD if it is available.
-L<[perl #126847]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126847>
+L<[GH #15082]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15082>
=back
Under some circumstances IRIX stdio C<fgetc()> and C<fread()> set the errno to
C<ENOENT>, which made no sense according to either IRIX or POSIX docs. Errno
is now cleared in such cases.
-L<[perl #123977]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123977>
+L<[GH #14557]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14557>
=item *
Problems when multiplying long doubles by infinity have been fixed.
-L<[perl #126396]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126396>
+L<[GH #14993]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14993>
=back
C<setenv()> function to update the environment.
Perl now uses C<setenv()>/C<unsetenv()> to update the environment on OS X.
-L<[perl #126240]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126240>
+L<[GH #14955]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14955>
=back
been removed. It was documented as deprecated in Perl 5.20, with a statement
that it would be removed early in the 5.21.x series; that has now finally
happened.
-L<[perl #121351]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=121351>
+L<[GH #13632]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/13632>
=item *
definition with a prototype has been seen, then any subsequent stub (or
definition) of the same subroutine with an attribute was causing an assertion
failure because of a null pointer.
-L<[perl #126845]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126845>
+L<[GH #15081]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15081>
=item *
Narrow the filename check in F<strict.pm> and F<warnings.pm>. Previously,
it assumed that if the filename (without the F<.pmc?> extension) differed
from the package name, if was a misspelled use statement (i.e. C<use Strict>
-instead of C<use strict>). We now check whether there's really a
+instead of C<use strict>). We now check whether there's really a
miscapitalization happening, and not some other issue.
=item *
=item *
-Correctly raise an error when trying to compile patterns with
+Correctly raise an error when trying to compile patterns with
unterminated character classes while there are trailing backslashes.
[perl #126141].
=item *
C<untie()> would sometimes return the last value returned by the C<UNTIE()>
-handler as well as it's normal value, messing up the stack. [perl
+handler as well as its normal value, messing up the stack. [perl
#126621]
=item *
A regression that allowed undeclared barewords in hash keys to work despite
strictures has been fixed.
-L<[perl #126981]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126981>
+L<[GH #15099]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15099>
=item *
Calls to the placeholder C<&PL_sv_yes> used internally when an C<import()>
or C<unimport()> method isn't found now correctly handle scalar context.
-L<[perl #126042]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126042>
+L<[GH #14902]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14902>
=item *
Report more context when we see an array where we expect to see an
operator and avoid an assertion failure.
-L<[perl #123737]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123737>
+L<[GH #14472]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14472>
=item *
Modifying an array that was previously a package C<@ISA> no longer
causes assertion failures or crashes.
-L<[perl #123788]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=123788>
+L<[GH #14492]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14492>
=item *
Retain binary compatibility across plain and DEBUGGING perl builds.
-L<[perl #127212]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=127212>
+L<[GH #15122]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15122>
=item *
Avoid leaking memory when setting C<$ENV{foo}> on darwin.
-L<[perl #126240]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126240>
+L<[GH #14955]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14955>
=item *
In some cases operators that return integers would return negative
integers as large positive integers.
-L<[perl #126635]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126635>
+L<[GH #15049]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15049>
=item *
producing the correct error message. The condition asserted on is
detected and reported on correctly without the assertions, so the
assertions were removed.
-L<[perl #126480]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126480>
+L<[GH #15015]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15015>
=item *
In some cases, failing to parse a here-doc would attempt to use freed
memory. This was caused by a pointer not being restored correctly.
-L<[perl #126443]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126443>
+L<[GH #15009]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15009>
=item *
C<< @x = sort { *a = 0; $a <=> $b } 0 .. 1 >> no longer frees the GP
for *a before restoring its SV slot.
-L<[perl #124097]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=124097>
+L<[GH #14595]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14595>
=item *
Multiple problems with the new hexadecimal floating point printf
format C<%a> were fixed:
-L<[perl #126582]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126582>,
-L<[perl #126586]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126586>,
-L<[perl #126822]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126822>
+L<[GH #15032]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15032>,
+L<[GH #15033]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15033>,
+L<[GH #15074]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15074>
=item *
There were places in regular expression patterns where comments (C<(?#...)>)
weren't allowed, but should have been. This is now fixed.
-L<[perl #116639]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=116639>
+L<[GH #12755]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/12755>
=item *
L<C<(?[...])>|perlrecharclass/Extended Bracketed Character Classes> constructs
within regular expression patterns could cause a segfault instead of a proper
error message.
-L<[perl #126180]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126180>
-L<[perl #126404]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126404>
+L<[GH #14933]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14933>
+L<[GH #14996]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14996>
=item *
Another problem with
L<C<(?[...])>|perlrecharclass/Extended Bracketed Character Classes>
constructs has been fixed wherein things like C<\c]> could cause panics.
-L<[perl #126181]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126181>
+L<[GH #14934]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14934>
=item *
Formerly perl may have crashed, depending on the exact value of C<$big_number>;
now it will typically raise an exception.
-L<[perl #125937]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125937>
+L<[GH #14880]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14880>
=item *
In a regex conditional expression C<(?(condition)yes-pattern|no-pattern)>, if
the condition is C<(?!)> then perl failed the match outright instead of
matching the no-pattern. This has been fixed.
-L<[perl #126222]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126222>
+L<[GH #14947]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14947>
=item *
The special backtracking control verbs C<(*VERB:ARG)> now all allow an optional
argument and set C<REGERROR>/C<REGMARK> appropriately as well.
-L<[perl #126186]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126186>
+L<[GH #14937]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14937>
=item *
checking constructs (introduced in Perl 5.22) C<\b{gcb}>, C<\b{sb}>, C<\b{wb}>,
C<\B{gcb}>, C<\B{sb}>, and C<\B{wb}>. All the C<\B{}> ones now match an empty
string; none of the C<\b{}> ones do.
-L<[perl #126319]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=126319>
+L<[GH #14976]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14976>
=item *
prevents infinite recursion when the now fatal error also causes
rewinding of the stack. [perl #123398]
-=item *
+=item *
In perl v5.22.0, the logic changed when parsing a numeric parameter to the -C
option, such that the successfully parsed number was not saved as the option
Very large code-points (beyond Unicode) in regular expressions no
longer cause a buffer overflow in some cases when converted to UTF-8.
-L<[perl #125826]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125826>
+L<[GH #14858]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14858>
=item *
context now correctly handles the case where the size of the range is
larger than the address space. This could happen on 32-bits with
-Duse64bitint.
-L<[perl #125781]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125781>
+L<[GH #14843]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14843>
=item *
A crash with C<< %::=(); J->${\"::"} >> has been fixed.
-L<[perl #125541]|https://rt.perl.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=125541>
+L<[GH #14790]|https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14790>
=item *
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