=item *
-L<Archive::Extract> has been upgraded from version 0.58 to 0.68.
+L<Archive::Extract> has been upgraded to 0.68.
Work around an edge case on Linux with Busybox's unzip.
=item *
-L<Archive::Tar> has been upgraded from version 1.82 to 1.90.
+L<Archive::Tar> has been upgraded to 1.90.
ptar now supports the -T option as well as dashless options
[rt.cpan.org #75473], [rt.cpan.org #75475].
=item *
-L<autodie> has been upgraded from version 2.10 to 2.13.
+L<autodie> has been upgraded to 2.13.
C<autodie> now plays nicely with the 'open' pragma.
=item *
-L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.35 to 1.42.
+L<B> has been upgraded to 1.42.
The C<stashoff> method of COPs has been added. This provides access to an
internal field added in perl 5.16 under threaded builds [perl #113034].
=item *
-L<B::Concise> has been upgraded from version 0.89 to 0.95.
+L<B::Concise> has been upgraded to 0.95.
The C<-nobanner> option has been fixed, and C<format>s can now be dumped.
When passed a sub name to dump, it will check also to see whether it
=item *
-L<B::Debug> has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.18.
+L<B::Debug> has been upgraded to 1.18.
This adds support (experimentally) for C<B::PADLIST>, which will be
added in Perl 5.17.4.
=item *
-L<B::Deparse> has been upgraded from version 1.14_01 to 1.20.
+L<B::Deparse> has been upgraded to 1.20.
Avoid warning when run under C<perl -w>.
=item *
-L<bignum>, L<bigint> and L<bigrat> have been upgraded from version 0.29 to
-0.33.
+L<bignum>, L<bigint> and L<bigrat> have been upgraded to 0.33.
The overrides for C<hex> and C<oct> have been rewritten, eliminating
several problems, and making one incompatible change:
=item *
-L<Carp> has been upgraded from version 1.26 to 1.28.
+L<Carp> has been upgraded to 1.29.
Carp is no longer confused when C<caller> returns undef for a package that
has been deleted.
=item *
-L<CGI> has been upgraded from version 3.59 to 3.63.
+L<CGI> has been upgraded to 3.63.
Unrecognized HTML escape sequences are now handled better, problematic
trailing newlines are no longer inserted after E<lt>formE<gt> tags
=item *
-L<Class::Struct> has been upgraded from version 0.63 to 0.64.
+L<Class::Struct> has been upgraded to 0.64.
The constructor now respects overridden accessor methods [perl #29230].
=item *
-L<Compress::Raw::Bzip2> has been upgraded from version 2.048 to 2.060.
+L<Compress::Raw::Bzip2> has been upgraded to 2.060.
The misuse of Perl's "magic" API has been fixed.
=item *
-L<Compress::Raw::Zlib> has been upgraded from version 2.048 to 2.060.
+L<Compress::Raw::Zlib> has been upgraded to 2.060.
Upgrade bundled zlib to version 1.2.7.
=item *
-L<CPAN::Meta::Requirements> has been upgraded from version 2.120630 to 2.122.
+L<CPAN::Meta::Requirements> has been upgraded to 2.122.
Treat undef requirements to C<from_string_hash> as 0 (with a warning).
=item *
-L<CPANPLUS> has been upgraded from version 0.9121 to 0.9135.
+L<CPANPLUS> has been upgraded to 0.9135.
Allow adding F<blib/script> to PATH.
=item *
-L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from version 2.135_06 to 2.145.
+L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded to 2.145.
It has been optimized to only build a seen-scalar hash as necessary,
thereby speeding up serialization drastically.
=item *
-L<DB_File> has been upgraded from version 1.826 to 1.827.
+L<DB_File> has been upgraded to 1.827.
The main Perl module no longer uses the C<"@_"> construct.
=item *
-L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded from version 1.08 to 1.11.
+L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded to 1.11.
This fixes compilation with C++ compilers and makes the module work with
the new pad API.
=item *
-L<Digest::MD5> has been upgraded from version 2.51 to 2.52.
+L<Digest::MD5> has been upgraded to 2.52.
Fix C<Digest::Perl::MD5> OO fallback [rt.cpan.org #66634].
=item *
-L<Digest::SHA> has been upgraded from version 5.71 to 5.84.
+L<Digest::SHA> has been upgraded to 5.84.
This fixes a double-free bug, which might have caused vulnerabilities
in some cases.
=item *
-L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.14 to 1.18.
+L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded to 1.18.
This is due to a minor code change in the XS for the VMS implementation.
=item *
-L<Encode> has been upgraded from version 2.44_01 to 2.49.
+L<Encode> has been upgraded to 2.49.
The Mac alias x-mac-ce has been added, and various bugs have been fixed
in Encode::Unicode, Encode::UTF7 and Encode::GSM0338.
=item *
-L<Env> has been upgraded from version 1.03 to 1.04.
+L<Env> has been upgraded to 1.04.
Its SPLICE implementation no longer misbehaves in list context.
=item *
-L<ExtUtils::CBuilder> has been upgraded from version 0.280206 to 0.280210.
+L<ExtUtils::CBuilder> has been upgraded to 0.280210.
Manifest files are now correctly embedded for those versions of VC++ which
make use of them. [perl #111782, #111798].
=item *
-L<ExtUtils::ParseXS> has been upgraded from version 3.16 to 3.18.
+L<ExtUtils::ParseXS> has been upgraded to 3.18.
The generated C code now avoids unnecessarily incrementing
C<PL_amagic_generation> on Perl versions where it's done automatically
=item *
-L<File::Copy> has been upgraded from version 2.23 to 2.26.
+L<File::Copy> has been upgraded to 2.26.
C<copy()> no longer zeros files when copying into the same directory,
and also now fails (as it has long been documented to do) when attempting
=item *
-L<File::DosGlob> has been upgraded from version 1.06 to 1.10.
+L<File::DosGlob> has been upgraded to 1.10.
The internal cache of file names that it keeps for each caller is now
freed when that caller is freed. This means
=item *
-L<File::Fetch> has been upgraded from version 0.32 to 0.38.
+L<File::Fetch> has been upgraded to 0.38.
Added the 'file_default' option for URLs that do not have a file
component.
=item *
-L<File::Find> has been upgraded from version 1.20 to 1.23.
+L<File::Find> has been upgraded to 1.23.
This fixes inconsistent unixy path handling on VMS.
=item *
-L<File::Glob> has been upgraded from version 1.17 to 1.20.
+L<File::Glob> has been upgraded to 1.20.
File::Glob has had exactly the same fix as File::DosGlob. Since it is
what Perl's own C<glob> operator itself uses (except on VMS), this means
=item *
-L<File::Spec::Unix> has been upgraded from version 3.39_02 to 3.40.
+L<File::Spec::Unix> has been upgraded to 3.40.
C<abs2rel> could produce incorrect results when given two relative paths or
the root directory twice [perl #111510].
=item *
-L<File::stat> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.07.
+L<File::stat> has been upgraded to 1.07.
C<File::stat> ignores the L<filetest> pragma, and warns when used in
combination therewith. But it was not warning for C<-r>. This has been
=item *
-L<File::Temp> has been upgraded from version 0.22 to 0.23
+L<File::Temp> has been upgraded to 0.23
Fixes various bugs involving directory removal. Defers unlinking tempfiles if
the initial unlink fails, which fixes problems on NFS.
=item *
-L<GDBM_File> has been upgraded from version 1.14 to 1.15.
+L<GDBM_File> has been upgraded to 1.15.
The undocumented optional fifth parameter to C<TIEHASH> has been
removed. This was intended to provide control of the callback used by
=item *
-L<Hash::Util> has been upgraded from version 0.11 to 0.15.
+L<Hash::Util> has been upgraded to 0.15.
C<hash_unlocked> and C<hashref_unlocked> now returns true if the hash is
unlocked, instead of always returning false [perl #112126].
=item *
-L<HTTP::Tiny> has been upgraded from version 0.017 to 0.025.
+L<HTTP::Tiny> has been upgraded to 0.025.
Add SSL verification features [github #6], [github #9].
=item *
-L<IO> has been upgraded from version 1.25_06 to 1.28.
+L<IO> has been upgraded to 1.28.
C<sync()> can now be called on read-only file handles [perl #64772].
=item *
-L<IPC::Cmd> has been upgraded from version 0.76 to 0.80.
+L<IPC::Cmd> has been upgraded to 0.80.
Use C<POSIX::_exit> instead of C<exit> in C<run_forked> [rt.cpan.org #76901].
=item *
-L<IPC::Open3> has been upgraded from version 1.12 to 1.13.
+L<IPC::Open3> has been upgraded to 1.13.
The C<open3()> function no longer uses C<POSIX::close()> to close file
descriptors since that breaks the ref-counting of file descriptors done by
=item *
-L<Locale::Codes> has been upgraded from version 3.21 to 3.25.
+L<Locale::Codes> has been upgraded to 3.25.
It includes some new codes.
=item *
-L<Memoize> has been upgraded from version 1.02 to 1.03.
+L<Memoize> has been upgraded to 1.03.
Fix the C<MERGE> cache option.
=item *
-L<Module::Build> has been upgraded from version 0.39_01 to 0.4003.
+L<Module::Build> has been upgraded to 0.4003.
Fixed bug where modules without C<$VERSION> might have a version of '0' listed
in 'provides' metadata, which will be rejected by PAUSE.
=item *
-L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 2.76_02 to 2.87
+L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded to 2.90
Version information is now stored as a delta, which greatly reduces the
size of the F<CoreList.pm> file.
=item *
-L<Module::Load::Conditional> has been upgraded from version 0.46 to 0.54.
+L<Module::Load::Conditional> has been upgraded to 0.54.
Fix use of C<requires> on perls installed to a path with spaces.
=item *
-L<Module::Metadata> has been upgraded from version 1.000009 to 1.000011.
+L<Module::Metadata> has been upgraded to 1.000011.
The creation of a Module::Metadata object for a typical module file has
been sped up by about 40%, and some spurious warnings about C<$VERSION>s
=item *
-L<Module::Pluggable> has been upgraded from version 4.0 to 4.7.
+L<Module::Pluggable> has been upgraded to 4.7.
Amongst other changes, triggers are now allowed on events, which gives
a powerful way to modify behaviour.
=item *
-L<Net::Ping> has been upgraded from version 2.38 to 2.41.
+L<Net::Ping> has been upgraded to 2.41.
This fixes some test failures on Windows.
=item *
-L<Opcode> has been upgraded from version 1.23 to 1.25.
+L<Opcode> has been upgraded to 1.25.
Reflect the removal of the boolkeys opcode and the addition of the
clonecv, introcv and padcv opcodes.
=item *
-L<overload> has been upgraded from version 1.18 to 1.22.
+L<overload> has been upgraded to 1.22.
C<no overload> now warns for invalid arguments, just like C<use overload>.
=item *
-L<PerlIO::encoding> has been upgraded from version 0.15 to 0.16.
+L<PerlIO::encoding> has been upgraded to 0.16.
This is the module implementing the ":encoding(...)" I/O layer. It no
longer corrupts memory or crashes when the encoding back-end reallocates
=item *
-L<PerlIO::scalar> has been upgraded from version 0.14_01 to 0.16.
+L<PerlIO::scalar> has been upgraded to 0.16.
The buffer scalar supplied may now only contain code pounts 0xFF or
lower. [perl #109828]
=item *
-L<Perl::OSType> has been upgraded from version 1.002 to 1.003.
+L<Perl::OSType> has been upgraded to 1.003.
This fixes a bug detecting the VOS operating system.
=item *
-L<Pod::Html> has been upgraded from version 1.1502 to 1.18.
+L<Pod::Html> has been upgraded to 1.18.
The option C<--libpods> has been reinstated. It is deprecated, and its use
does nothing other than issue a warning that it is no longer supported.
=item *
-Fixed the merge of ExtUtils-MakeMaker 6.65_01 to remove an excluded
-file. This was causing a test failure on Win32 [perl #117477]
-
-=item *
-
-L<Pod::Simple> has been upgraded from version 3.20 to 3.26.
+L<Pod::Simple> has been upgraded to 3.28.
Numerous improvements have been made, mostly to Pod::Simple::XHTML,
which also has a compatibility change: the C<codes_in_verbatim> option
=item *
-L<re> has been upgraded from version 0.19_01 to 0.23
+L<re> has been upgraded to 0.23
Single character [class]es like C</[s]/> or C</[s]/i> are now optimized
as if they did not have the brackets, i.e. C</s/> or C</s/i>.
=item *
-L<Safe> has been upgraded from version 2.31_01 to 2.35.
+L<Safe> has been upgraded to 2.35.
Fix interactions with C<Devel::Cover>.
=item *
-L<Scalar::Util> has been upgraded from version 1.25 to version 1.27.
+L<Scalar::Util> has been upgraded to version 1.27.
Fix an overloading issue with C<sum>.
=item *
-L<Search::Dict> has been upgraded from version 1.04 to 1.07.
+L<Search::Dict> has been upgraded to 1.07.
No longer require C<stat> on filehandles.
=item *
-L<Socket> has been upgraded from version 2.001 to 2.009.
+L<Socket> has been upgraded to 2.009.
Constants and functions required for IP multicast source group membership
have been added.
=item *
-L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 2.34 to 2.41.
+L<Storable> has been upgraded to 2.41.
Modifying C<$_[0]> within C<STORABLE_freeze> no longer results in crashes
[perl #112358].
=item *
-L<Sys::Syslog> has been upgraded from version 0.29 to 0.32.
+L<Sys::Syslog> has been upgraded to 0.32.
This contains several bug fixes relating to C<getservbyname()>,
C<setlogsock()>and log levels in C<syslog()>, together with fixes for
=item *
-L<Term::ANSIColor> has been upgraded from version 3.01 to 4.02.
+L<Term::ANSIColor> has been upgraded to 4.02.
Add support for italics.
=item *
-L<Term::ReadLine> has been upgraded from version 1.09 to 1.10. This fixes the
+L<Term::ReadLine> has been upgraded to 1.10. This fixes the
use of the B<cpan> and B<cpanp> shells on Windows in the event that the current
drive happens to contain a F<\dev\tty> file.
=item *
-L<Test::Harness> has been upgraded from version 3.23 to 3.26.
+L<Test::Harness> has been upgraded to 3.26.
Fix glob semantics on Win32 [rt.cpan.org #49732].
=item *
-L<Text::Tabs> and L<Text::Wrap> have been upgraded from version 2009.0305 to
+L<Text::Tabs> and L<Text::Wrap> have been upgraded to
2012.0818. Support for Unicode combining characters has been added to them
both.
=item *
-L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.40 to 1.31.
+L<threads::shared> has been upgraded to 1.31.
This adds the option to warn about or ignore attempts to clone structures
that can't be cloned, as opposed to just unconditionally dying in
=item *
-L<Tie::StdHandle> has been upgraded from version 4.2 to 4.3.
+L<Tie::StdHandle> has been upgraded to 4.3.
C<READ> now respects the offset argument to C<read> [perl #112826].
=item *
-L<Time::Local> has been upgraded from version 1.2000 to 1.2300.
+L<Time::Local> has been upgraded to 1.2300.
Seconds values greater than 59 but less than 60 no longer cause
C<timegm()> and C<timelocal()> to croak.
=item *
-L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.43 to 0.53.
+L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded to 0.53.
This adds a function L<all_casefolds()|Unicode::UCD/all_casefolds()>
that returns all the casefolds.
=item *
-L<Win32> has been upgraded from version 0.44 to 0.47.
+L<Win32> has been upgraded to 0.47.
New APIs have been added for getting and setting the current code page.
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