Attempts to set an option to C<undef> through a combined getter/setter
method are no longer mistaken for getter calls [perl #113090].
+=item *
+
+L<Pod::Html> has been upgraded from version 1.2203 to 1.23.
+A title for the HTML document will now be automatically generated by
+default from a "NAME" section in the POD document, as it used to be
+before the module was rewritten to use L<Pod::Simple::XHTML> to do the
+core of its job. [perl #110520]
+
=back
=head2 Removed Modules and Pragmata
=head3 L<perlfunc>
+There is now a note that warnings generated by built-in functions are
+documented in L<perldiag> and L<warnings>. [perl #116080]
+
The documentation for the C<exists> operator no longer says that
autovivification behaviour "may be fixed in a future release".
We've determined that we're not going to change the default behaviour.
has been corrected to say that filter subroutines receive a useless
first argument. [perl #115754]
+The documentation of C<ref> has been rewritten for clarity.
+
The documentation of C<use> now explains what syntactically qualifies
as a version number for its module version checking feature.
characters in the range C<\x00-\xFF> it matches, as well as a list of
the first few ranges of code points matched above that.
+=head3 L<perlobj>
+
+The documentation about C<DESTROY> methods has been corrected, updated,
+and revised, especially in regard to how they interact with exceptions.
+[perl #122753]
+
=head3 L<perlsec>
The documentation about set-id scripts has been updated and revised.
=item *
+The warning about useless use of a concatenation operator in void context
+is now generated for expressions with multiple concatenations, such as
+C<$a.$b.$c>, which used to mistakenly not warn. [perl #6997]
+
+=item *
+
Warnings that a variable or subroutine "masks earlier declaration in same
...", or that an C<our> variable has been redeclared, have been moved to a
new warnings category "shadow". Previously they were in category "misc".
XXX
+=item *
+
+Where an HTML version of the doucmentation is installed, the HTML
+documents now use relative links to refer to each other. Links from
+the index page of L<perlipc> to the individual section documents are
+now correct. [perl #110056]
+
=back
=head1 Testing
=item *
+C<reverse> with no operand, reversing C<$_> by default, is no longer in
+danger of corrupting the stack. [perl #132544]
+
+=item *
+
+C<exec>, C<system>, et al are no longer liable to have their argument
+lists corrupted by reentrant calls and by magic such as tied scalars.
+[perl #129888]
+
+=item *
+
Perl's own C<malloc> no longer gets confused by attempts to allocate
more than a gigabyte on a 64-bit platform. [perl #119829]
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