Document the ExtUtils::ParseXS changes in perldelta

[perl5.git] / pod / perldelta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 157f115..69677bb 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -48,6 +48,19 @@ The restriction that you can only have one C<study> active at a time has been
 removed. You can now usefully C<study> as many strings as you want (until you
 exhaust memory).
 
+=head2 The Unicode C<Script_Extensions> property is now supported.
+
+New in Unicode 6.0, this is an improved C<Script> property.  Details
+are in L<perlunicode/Scripts>.
+
+=head2 DTrace probes for interpreter phase change
+
+The C<phase-change> probes will fire when the interpreter's phase
+changes, which tracks the C<${^GLOBAL_PHASE}> variable. C<arg0> is
+the new phase name; C<arg1> is the old one. This is useful mostly
+for limiting your instrumentation to one or more of: compile time,
+run time, destruct time.
+
 =head1 Security
 
 XXX Any security-related notices go here.  In particular, any security
@@ -132,6 +145,26 @@ XXX
 
 =item *
 
+L<ExtUtils::ParseXS> has been upgraded from version XXX to version XXX.
+
+Much of L<ExtUtils::ParseXS>, the module behind the XS compiler C<xsubpp>,
+was rewritten and cleaned up. It has been made somewhat more extensible
+and now finally uses strictures.
+
+The logic for parsing, merging, and dumping XS typemaps was extracted
+from C<ExtUtils::ParseXS> into a module of its own, L<ExtUtils::Typemaps>.
+C<ExtUtils::Typemaps> offers an interface to typemap handling outside of
+the scope of the XS compiler itself.
+
+As a first use case of the improved API an extensibility, typemaps can now
+be included inline into XS code with a HEREDOC-like syntax:
+
+  TYPEMAP: <<END_TYPEMAP
+  MyType       T_IV
+  END_TYPEMAP
+
+=item *
+
 L<CGI> has been upgraded from version 3.54 to version 3.55
 
 [THINGS THAT MAY BREAK YOUR CODE]
@@ -179,7 +212,7 @@ IO::Compress::Zip when the content size was exactly 0xFFFFFFFF.
 
 =item *
 
-L<CPANPLUS> has been upgraded from version 0.9105 to version 0.9106
+L<CPANPLUS> has been upgraded from version 0.9105 to version 0.9107
 
 =item *
 
@@ -227,6 +260,10 @@ performance under ithreads.
 
 =item *
 
+L<Pod::Simple> has been upgraded from version 3.16 to version 3.17
+
+=item *
+
 L<Unicode::Collate> has been upgraded from version 0.76 to version 0.77
 
 Applied [perl #93470] silencing compiler warnings with -Wwrite-strings
@@ -269,9 +306,10 @@ file and be sure to link to the appropriate page, e.g. L<perlfunc>.
 
 XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<pod/> go here.
 
-=head3 L<XXX>
+=head3 L<perldtrace>
 
-XXX Description of the purpose of the new file here
+L<perldtrace> describes Perl's DTrace support, listing the provided probes
+and gives examples of their use.
 
 =head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
 
@@ -287,6 +325,10 @@ section.
 
 XXX Description of the change here
 
+=item *
+
+L<perlxs> was extended with documentation on inline typemaps.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Diagnostics
@@ -392,7 +434,11 @@ that they represent may be covered elsewhere.
 
 =item *
 
-XXX
+F<t/run/dtrace.t> was added to test Perl's DTrace support. This
+test will only be run if your Perl was built with C<-Dusedtrace>
+and if calling C<dtrace> actually lets you instrument code. This
+generally requires being run as root, so this test file is primarily
+intended for use by the dtrace subcommittee of p5p.
 
 =back