=head1 NAME
-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.25.7
+[ this is a template for a new perldelta file. Any text flagged as XXX needs
+to be processed before release. ]
+
+perldelta - what is new for perl v5.25.9
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This document describes differences between the 5.25.6 release and the 5.25.7
+This document describes differences between the 5.25.8 release and the 5.25.9
release.
-If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.25.5, first read
-L<perl5256delta>, which describes differences between 5.25.5 and 5.25.6.
+If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.25.7, first read
+L<perl5258delta>, which describes differences between 5.25.7 and 5.25.8.
-=head1 Core Enhancements
+=head1 Notice
-=head2 Indented Here-documents
+XXX Any important notices here
-This adds a new modifier '~' to here-docs that tells the parser
-that it should look for /^\s*$DELIM\n/ as the closing delimiter.
+=head1 Core Enhancements
-These syntaxes are all supported:
+XXX New core language features go here. Summarize user-visible core language
+enhancements. Particularly prominent performance optimisations could go
+here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section.
- <<~EOF;
- <<~\EOF;
- <<~'EOF';
- <<~"EOF";
- <<~`EOF`;
- <<~ 'EOF';
- <<~ "EOF";
- <<~ `EOF`;
+[ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ]
-The '~' modifier will strip, from each line in the here-doc, the
-same whitespace that appears before the delimiter.
+=head1 Security
-Newlines will be copied as is, and lines that don't include the
-proper beginning whitespace will cause perl to croak.
+XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security
+vulnerabilities closed should be noted here rather than in the
+L</Selected Bug Fixes> section.
-For example:
+[ List each security issue as a =head2 entry ]
- if (1) {
- print <<~EOF;
- Hello there
- EOF
- }
+=head1 Incompatible Changes
-prints "Hello there\n" with no leading whitespace.
+XXX For a release on a stable branch, this section aspires to be:
-=head2 '.' and @INC
+ There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.XXX.XXX
+ If any exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a
+ report. See L</Reporting Bugs> below.
-Perl now provides a way to build perl without C<.> in @INC by default. If you
-want this feature, you can build with -Ddefault_inc_excludes_dot
+[ List each incompatible change as a =head2 entry ]
-Because the testing / make process for perl modules do not function well with
-C<.> missing from @INC, Perl now supports the environment variable
-PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC=1 which makes Perl behave as it previously did, returning
-C<.> to @INC in all child processes.
+=head1 Deprecations
-WARNING: PERL_USE_UNSAFE_INC has been provided during the perl 5.25 development
-cycle and is not guaranteed to function in perl 5.26.
+=head2 String delimiters that aren't stand-alone graphemes are now
+deprecated
-=head2 create a safer utf8_hop() called utf8_hop_safe()
+In order for Perl to eventually allow string delimiters to be Unicode
+grapheme clusters (which look like a single character, but may be
+a sequence of several ones), we have to stop allowing a single char
+delimiter that isn't a grapheme by itself. These are unlikely to exist
+in actual code, as they would typically display as attached to the
+character in front of them.
-Unlike utf8_hop(), utf8_hop_safe() won't navigate before the beginning or after
-the end of the supplied buffer.
+=head2 Module removals
-=head2 Fix taint handling in list assignment
+XXX Remove this section if inapplicable.
-commit v5.25.6-79-gb09ed99 reworked list assignment, and
-accidentally broke taint handling at the same time.
+The following modules will be removed from the core distribution in a
+future release, and will at that time need to be installed from CPAN.
+Distributions on CPAN which require these modules will need to list them as
+prerequisites.
-=head2 @{^CAPTURE}, %{^CAPTURE}, and %{^CAPTURE_ALL}
+The core versions of these modules will now issue C<"deprecated">-category
+warnings to alert you to this fact. To silence these deprecation warnings,
+install the modules in question from CPAN.
-@{^CAPTURE} exposes the capture buffers of the last match as an array. So $1 is
-${^CAPTURE}[0].
+Note that these are (with rare exceptions) fine modules that you are encouraged
+to continue to use. Their disinclusion from core primarily hinges on their
+necessity to bootstrapping a fully functional, CPAN-capable Perl installation,
+not usually on concerns over their design.
-%{^CAPTURE} is the equivalent to %+ (ie named captures)
+=over
-%{^CAPTURE_ALL} is the equivalent to %- (ie all named captures).
+=item XXX
-=head2 op.c: silence compiler warning in fold_constants()
+XXX Note that deprecated modules should be listed here even if they are listed
+as an updated module in the L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
- op.c: In function ‘S_fold_constants’:
- op.c:4374:28: warning: argument ‘o’ might be clobbered by ‘longjmp’ or ‘vfork’ [-Wclobbered]
- S_fold_constants(pTHX_ OP *o)
- ^
+=back
-This warning has been silenced.
+[ List each other deprecation as a =head2 entry ]
=head1 Performance Enhancements
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-Reduce cost of SvVALID().
-
-=item *
-
-C<$ref1 = $ref2> has been optimized.
-
-=item *
-
-Array and hash assignment are now faster, e.g.
+XXX Changes which enhance performance without changing behaviour go here.
+There may well be none in a stable release.
- (..., @a) = (...);
- (..., %h) = (...);
+[ List each enhancement as a =item entry ]
-especially when the RHS is empty.
+=over 4
=item *
-Reduce the number of odd special cases for the SvSCREAM flag.
+XXX
-=item *
+=back
-Avoid sv_catpvn() in do_vop() when unneeded.
+=head1 Modules and Pragmata
-=item *
+XXX All changes to installed files in F<cpan/>, F<dist/>, F<ext/> and F<lib/>
+go here. If Module::CoreList is updated, generate an initial draft of the
+following sections using F<Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl>. A paragraph summary
+for important changes should then be added by hand. In an ideal world,
+dual-life modules would have a F<Changes> file that could be cribbed.
-Enhancements in Regex concat COW implementation.
+[ Within each section, list entries as a =item entry ]
-=item *
+=head2 New Modules and Pragmata
-Speed up AV and HV clearing/undeffing.
+=over 4
=item *
-Better optimise array and hash assignment
+XXX
=back
-=head1 Modules and Pragmata
-
=head2 Updated Modules and Pragmata
=over 4
=item *
-L<podlators> has been upgraded from version 4.08 to 4.09.
-
-=item *
-
-L<Archive::Tar> has been upgraded from version 2.14 to 2.18.
+L<XXX> has been upgraded from version A.xx to B.yy.
=item *
-L<B> has been upgraded from version 1.64 to 1.65.
+L<B::Xref> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
=item *
-L<Data::Dumper> has been upgraded from version 2.162 to 2.165.
-
-The XS implementation now supports Deparse.
-
-=item *
-
-L<Devel::Peek> has been upgraded from version 1.25 to 1.26.
-
-=item *
-
-L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.39 to 1.40.
-
-=item *
-
-L<Errno> has been upgraded from version 1.26 to 1.27.
-
-Document that using C<%!> loads Errno for you.
-
-=item *
-
-L<File::Spec> has been upgraded from version 3.65 to 3.66.
+L<VMS::DCLsym> has been upgraded from version 1.07 to 1.08.
=item *
-L<Hash::Util> has been upgraded from version 0.21 to 0.22.
+L<diagnostics> has been upgraded from version 1.35 to 1.36.
=item *
-L<JSON::PP> has been upgraded from version 2.27400_01 to 2.27400_02.
+L<Devel::SelfStubber> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
=item *
-L<List::Util> has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.46_02.
+L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.40 to 1.41.
=item *
-L<Math::BigInt> has been upgraded from version 1.999726(_01) to 1.999727.
-
-There have also been some core customizations.
+L<Errno> has been upgraded from version 1.27 to 1.28.
=item *
-L<Math::Complex> has been upgraded from version 1.59 to 1.5901.
+L<ExtUtils::Embed> has been upgraded from version 1.33 to 1.34.
=item *
-L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20161020 to 5.20161120.
+L<I18N::LangTags> has been upgraded from version 0.41 to 0.42.
=item *
-L<mro> has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20.
+L<lib> has been upgraded from version 0.63 to 0.64.
=item *
-L<Net::Ping> has been upgraded from version 2.51 to 2.55.
-
-Remove sudo from 500_ping_icmp.t.
-
-Avoid stderr noise in tests
-
-Check for echo in new Net::Ping tests.
+L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20161220 to 5.20170120.
=item *
-L<Opcode> has been upgraded from version 1.38 to 1.39.
+L<OS2::Process> has been upgraded from version 1.11 to 1.12.
=item *
-L<POSIX> has been upgraded from version 1.73 to 1.75.
+L<perl5db.pl> has been upgraded from version 1.50 to 1.51.
=item *
-L<Scalar::Util> has been upgraded from version 1.46 to 1.46_02.
+L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 2.59 to 2.60.
=item *
-L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 2.58 to 2.59.
+L<Symbol> has been upgraded from version 1.07 to 1.08.
=item *
-L<Term::ANSIColor> has been upgraded from version 4.05 to 4.06.
+L<Term::ReadLine> has been upgraded from version 1.15 to 1.16.
=item *
-L<Test::Simple> has been upgraded from version 1.302059 to 1.302062.
+L<Test> has been upgraded from version 1.29 to 1.30.
=item *
-L<threads> has been upgraded from version 2.09 to 2.10.
+L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.67 to 0.68.
=item *
-L<Time::HiRes> has been upgraded from version 1.9740_01 to 1.9740_03.
-
-Now uses clockid_t.
+L<XSLoader> has been upgraded from version 0.24 to 0.26.
-=item *
-
-L<Unicode::Collate> has been upgraded from version 1.14 to 1.18.
-
-=item *
-
-L<Unicode::Normalize> is now maintained by p5p and has been moved to dist/
+=back
-=item *
+=head2 Removed Modules and Pragmata
-L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.66 to 0.67.
+=over 4
=item *
-L<XS::Typemap> has been upgraded from version 0.14 to 0.15.
+XXX
=back
=head1 Documentation
-=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
+XXX Changes to files in F<pod/> go here. Consider grouping entries by
+file and be sure to link to the appropriate page, e.g. L<perlfunc>.
-=head3 L<perlfunc>
+=head2 New Documentation
-=over 4
+XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<pod/> go here.
-=item *
-
-Defined on aggregates is no longer allowed. Perlfunc was still reporting it as
-deprecated, and that it will be deleted in the future.
-
-=back
+=head3 L<XXX>
-=head3 L<perldata>
+XXX Description of the purpose of the new file here
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-Use of single character variables, with the variable name a non printable
-character in the range \x80-\xFF is no longer allowed. Update the docs to
-reflect this.
+=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
-=back
+XXX Changes which significantly change existing files in F<pod/> go here.
+However, any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in the L</Diagnostics>
+section.
-=head3 L<perlobj>
+=head3 L<XXX>
=over 4
=item *
-Added a section on calling methods using their fully qualified names.
-
-=item *
-
-Do not discourage manual @ISA.
+XXX Description of the change here
=back
-=head3 L<perlop>
+=head1 Diagnostics
-=over 4
+The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
+including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
+diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
-=item *
+XXX New or changed warnings emitted by the core's C<C> code go here. Also
+include any changes in L<perldiag> that reconcile it to the C<C> code.
-Clarify behavior single quote regexps.
+=head2 New Diagnostics
-=back
+XXX Newly added diagnostic messages go under here, separated into New Errors
+and New Warnings
-=head3 L<perllocale>
+=head3 New Errors
=over 4
=item *
-Some locales aren't compatible with Perl. Note the potential bad
-consequences of using them.
+XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
=back
-=head3 L<perldiag>
+=head3 New Warnings
=over 4
=item *
-Deprecations are to be marked with a D.
-C<"%s() is deprecated on :utf8 handles"> use a deprecation message, and as
-such, such be marked C<"(D deprecated)"> and not C<"(W deprecated)">.
+XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
=back
-=head3 L<perlguts>
+=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
+
+XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here
=over 4
=item *
-add pTHX_ to magic method examples.
+XXX Describe change here
=back
-=head3 L<perlvar>
-
-=over 4
+=head1 Utility Changes
-=item *
+XXX Changes to installed programs such as F<perlbug> and F<xsubpp> go here.
+Most of these are built within the directory F<utils>.
-Document @ISA. Was documented other places, not not in perlvar.
+[ List utility changes as a =head2 entry for each utility and =item
+entries for each change
+Use L<XXX> with program names to get proper documentation linking. ]
-=back
-
-=head3 L<perlootut>
+=head2 L<XXX>
=over 4
=item *
-Tidy the document.
-
-=item *
-
-Mention Moo more.
+XXX
=back
-=head3 L<perlhack>
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-Document Tab VS Space.
+=head1 Configuration and Compilation
-=back
+XXX Changes to F<Configure>, F<installperl>, F<installman>, and analogous tools
+go here. Any other changes to the Perl build process should be listed here.
+However, any platform-specific changes should be listed in the
+L</Platform Support> section, instead.
-=head3 L<perlre>
+[ List changes as a =item entry ].
=over 4
=item *
-Several minor enhancements to the documentation.
+XXX
=back
-=head1 Diagnostics
+=head1 Testing
-The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
-including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
-diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
+XXX Any significant changes to the testing of a freshly built perl should be
+listed here. Changes which create B<new> files in F<t/> go here as do any
+large changes to the testing harness (e.g. when parallel testing was added).
+Changes to existing files in F<t/> aren't worth summarizing, although the bugs
+that they represent may be covered elsewhere.
-=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
+[ List each test improvement as a =item entry ]
=over 4
=item *
-Improve error for missing tie() package/method. This brings the error messages
-in line with the ones used for normal method calls, despite not using
-call_method().
+XXX
-=item *
+=back
-Make the sysread()/syswrite/() etc :utf8 handle warnings default. These
-warnings were under 'deprecated' previously.
+=head1 Platform Support
-=item *
+XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below.
-'do' errors now refer to 'do' (not 'require').
+[ Within the sections, list each platform as a =item entry with specific
+changes as paragraphs below it. ]
-=back
+=head2 New Platforms
-=head1 Utility Changes
+XXX List any platforms that this version of perl compiles on, that previous
+versions did not. These will either be enabled by new files in the F<hints/>
+directories, or new subdirectories and F<README> files at the top level of the
+source tree.
=over 4
-=item *
-
-Porting/pod_lib.pl
-
-Removed spurious executable bit.
+=item XXX-some-platform
-Account for possibility of DOS file endings.
+XXX
-=item *
+=back
-perf/benchmarks
+=head2 Discontinued Platforms
-Tidy file, rename some symbols.
+XXX List any platforms that this version of perl no longer compiles on.
-=item *
+=over 4
-Porting/checkAUTHORS.pl
+=item XXX-some-platform
-Replace obscure character range with \w.
+XXX
-=item *
+=back
-t/porting/regen.t
+=head2 Platform-Specific Notes
-try to be more helpful when tests fail.
+XXX List any changes for specific platforms. This could include configuration
+and compilation changes or changes in portability/compatibility. However,
+changes within modules for platforms should generally be listed in the
+L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
-=item *
+=over 4
-utils/h2xs.PL
+=item XXX-some-platform
-Avoid infinite loop for enums.
+XXX
=back
-=head1 Configuration and Compilation
+=head1 Internal Changes
-=over 4
+XXX Changes which affect the interface available to C<XS> code go here. Other
+significant internal changes for future core maintainers should be noted as
+well.
-=item *
+[ List each change as a =item entry ]
-Remove "Warning: perl appears in your path"
-
-This install warning is more or less obsolete, since most platforms already
-*will* have a /usr/bin/perl or similar provided by the OS.
+=over 4
=item *
-Reduce verbosity of "make install.man"
-
-Previously, two progress messages were emitted for each manpage: one by
-installman itself, and one by the function in install_lib.pl that it calls to
-actually install the file. Disabling the second of those in each case saves
-over 750 lines of unhelpful output.
+New versions of macros like C<isALPHA_utf8> and C<toLOWER_utf8> have
+been added, each with the
+suffix C<_safe>, like C<isSPACE_utf8_safe>. These take an extra
+parameter, giving an upper limit of how far into the string it is safe
+to read. Using the old versions could cause attempts to read beyond the
+end of the input buffer if the UTF-8 is not well-formed, and ther use
+now raises a deprecation warning. Details are at
+L<perlapi/Character classification>.
=item *
-Cleanup for clang -Weverything support. [perl 129961]
+Calling macros like C<isALPHA_utf8> on malformed UTF-8 have issued a
+deprecation warning since Perl v5.18. They now die.
+Similarly, macros like C<toLOWER_utf8> on malformed UTF-8 now die.
=item *
-Configure: signbit scan was assuming too much, stop assuming negative 0.
+Calling the functions C<utf8n_to_uvchr> and its derivatives, while
+passing a string length of 0 is now asserted against in DEBUGGING
+builds, and otherwise returns the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. If
+you have nothing to decode, you shouldn't call the decode function.
=item *
-Various compiler warnings have been silenced.
+The functions C<utf8n_to_uvchr> and its derivatives now return the
+Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER if called with UTF-8 that has the overlong
+malformation, and that malformation is allowed by the input parameters.
+This malformation is where the UTF-8 looks valid syntactically, but
+there is a shorter sequence that yields the same code point. This has
+been forbidden since Unicode version 3.1.
=item *
-Several smaller changes have been made to remove impediments to compiling under
-C++11.
+The functions C<utf8n_to_uvchr> and its derivatives now accept an input
+flag to allow the overflow malformation. This malformation is when the
+UTF-8 may be syntactically valid, but the code point it represents is
+not capable of being represented in the word length on the platform.
+What "allowed" means in this case is that the function doesn't return an
+error, and advances the parse pointer to beyond the UTF-8 in question,
+but it returns the Unicode REPLACEMENT CHARACTER as the value of the
+code point (since the real value is not representable).
=back
-=head1 Testing
+=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
-=over 4
+XXX Important bug fixes in the core language are summarized here. Bug fixes in
+files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>.
-=item *
+[ List each fix as a =item entry ]
-XS-APItest/t/utf8.t: Several small fixes and enhancements.
+=over 4
=item *
-Tests for locales were erroneously using locales incompatible with Perl.
+Under C<use utf8>, the entire Perl program is now checked that the UTF-8
+is wellformed. This resolves [perl #126310].
=back
-=head1 Platform Support
-
-=head2 Platform-Specific Notes
-
-=over 4
-
-=item Darwin
-
-don't treat -Dprefix=/usr as special, instead require an extra option
--Ddarwin_distribution to produce the same results.
-
-=item POSIX
-
-Finish removing POSIX deprecated functions.
-
-=item OS X
-
-OS X El Capitan doesn't implement the clock_gettime() or clock_getres() APIs,
-emulate them as necessary.
-
-=item macOS
-
-Deprecated syscall(2) on macOS 10.12.
-
-=item EBCDIC
-
-Several tests have been updated to work (or be skipped) on EBCDIC platforms.
-
-=item HP-UX
-
-L<Net::Ping> UDP test is skipped on HP-UX.
-
-=item VMS
-
-Move _pDEPTH and _aDEPTH after config.h otherwise DEBUGGING may not be defined
-yet.
-
-VAXC has not been a possibility for a good long while, and the versions of the
-DEC/Compaq/HP/VSI C compiler that report themselves as "DEC" in a listing file
-are 15 years or more out-of-date and can be safely desupported.
-
-=item VMS And Win32
-
-Fix some breakage, add 'undef' value for default_inc_excludes_dot in build
-scripts.
-
-=item Linux
-
-Drop support for Linux a.out Linux has used ELF for over twenty years.
-
-=item NetBSD-VAX
-
-Test fixes and minor updates.
-
-Account for lack of C<inf>, C<nan>, and C<-0.0> support.
+=head1 Known Problems
-=item Win32
+XXX Descriptions of platform agnostic bugs we know we can't fix go here. Any
+tests that had to be C<TODO>ed for the release would be noted here. Unfixed
+platform specific bugs also go here.
-fp definitions have been updated.
-
-=item OpenBSD 6
-
-OpenBSD 6 still does not support returning pid, gid or uid with SA_SIGINFO.
-Make sure this is accounted for.
-
-=item FreeBSD
-
-t/uni/overload.t: Skip hanging test on FreeBSD.
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Internal Changes
+[ List each fix as a =item entry ]
=over 4
=item *
-The meanings of some internal SV flags have been changed
-
-OPpRUNTIME, SVpbm_VALID, SVpbm_TAIL, SvTAIL_on, SvTAIL_off, SVrepl_EVAL,
-SvEVALED
-
-=item *
-
-Change C<hv_fetch(…, "…", …, …)> to C<hv_fetchs(…, "…", …)>
-
-The dual-life dists all use Devel::PPPort, so they can use this function even
-though it was only added in 5.10.
+XXX
=back
-=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
+=head1 Errata From Previous Releases
=over 4
=item *
-Handle SvIMMORTALs in LHS of list assign. [perl #129991]
-
-=item *
-
-[perl #130010] a5540cf breaks texinfo
-
-This involved user-defined Unicode properties.
-
-=item *
-
-Fix error message for unclosed C<\N{> in regcomp.
-
-An unclosed C<\N{> could give the wrong error message
-C<"\N{NAME} must be resolved by the lexer">.
-
-=item *
-
-List assignment in list context where the LHS contained aggregates and
-where there were not enough RHS elements, used to skip scalar lvalues.
-Previously, C<(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (1))> in list context returned C<($a)>; now
-it returns C<($a,$b,$d)>. C<(($a,$b,$c) = (1))> is unchanged: it still
-returns C<($a,$b,$c)>. This can be seen in the following:
-
- sub inc { $_++ for @_ }
- inc(($a,$b,@c,$d) = (10))
-
-Formerly, the values of C<($a,$b,$d)> would be left as C<(11,undef,undef)>;
-now they are C<(11,1,1)>.
-
-=item *
-
-[perl 129903]
-
-The basic problem is that code like this: /(?{ s!!! })/ can trigger infinite
-recursion on the C stack (not the normal perl stack) when the last successful
-pattern in scope is itself. Since the C stack overflows this manifests as an
-untrappable error/segfault, which then kills perl.
-
-We avoid the segfault by simply forbidding the use of the empty pattern when it
-would resolve to the currently executing pattern.
-
-=item *
-
-[perl 128997] Avoid reading beyond the end of the line buffer when there's a
-short UTF-8 character at the end.
-
-=item *
-
-[perl 129950] fix firstchar bitmap under utf8 with prefix optimisation.
-
-=item *
-
-[perl 129954] Carp/t/arg_string.t: be liberal in f/p formats.
-
-=item *
-
-[perl 129928] make do "a\0b" fail silently instead of throwing.
-
-=item *
-
-[perl 129130] make chdir allocate the stack it needs.
+XXX Add anything here that we forgot to add, or were mistaken about, in
+the perldelta of a previous release.
=back
-=head1 Acknowledgements
-
-Perl 5.25.7 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.25.6
-and contains approximately 83,000 lines of changes across 630 files from 26
-authors.
+=head1 Obituary
-Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were
-approximately 13,000 lines of changes to 340 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
+XXX If any significant core contributor has died, we've added a short obituary
+here.
-Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
-of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the
-improvements that became Perl 5.25.7:
-
-Aaron Crane, Abigail, Andrew Fresh, Andy Lester, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chad
-Granum, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Dan
-Collins, Dave Rolsky, David Mitchell, Hauke D, H.Merijn Brand, Hugo van der
-Sanden, James E Keenan, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Karl Williamson, Lukas Mai, Matthew
-Horsfall, Nicolas R., Stefan Seifert, Steve Hay, Todd Rinaldo, Tony Cook, Yves
-Orton.
-
-The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
-from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
-the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
-tracker.
+=head1 Acknowledgements
-Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
-included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
-helping Perl to flourish.
+XXX Generate this with:
-For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
-the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
+ perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.25.5..HEAD
=head1 Reporting Bugs
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff