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@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 
 =head1 NAME
 
-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.12.1
+perl5121delta - what is new for perl v5.12.1
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
@@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ parsing.
 
 We made a small fix to the L<CPANPLUS> test suite to fix an occasional spurious test failure.
 
+=item *
+
+We upgraded L<Safe> to version 2.27 to wrap coderefs returned by C<reval()> and C<rdo()>.
+
 =back
 
 =head1 Changes to Existing Documentation
@@ -220,7 +224,7 @@ due to their arguments being swapped.
 See also: L<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72704>
 
 =item *
-    
+
 We fixed a small bug in lex_stuff_pvn() that caused spurious syntax errors
 in an obscure situation.  It happened when stuffing was performed on the
 last line of a file and the line ended with a statement that lacked a
@@ -232,7 +236,7 @@ See also: L<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74006>
 
 We fixed a bug that could cause \N{} constructs followed by a single . to
 be parsed incorrectly.
-    
+
 See also: L<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74978>
 
 =item *
@@ -253,7 +257,7 @@ See also: L<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=74290>
 =item *
 
 We fixed a regression in case-insensitive matching of folded characters
-in regular expressions introduced in Perl 5.12.0.
+in regular expressions introduced in Perl 5.10.1.
 
 See also: L<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72998>
 
@@ -324,6 +328,34 @@ interactively and explicitly answered no.
 
 =back
 
+=head1 Known Problems
+
+=over
+
+=item *
+
+C<List::Util::first> misbehaves in the presence of a lexical C<$_>
+(typically introduced by C<my $_> or implicitly by C<given>). The variable
+which gets set for each iteration is the package variable C<$_>, not the
+lexical C<$_>.
+
+A similar issue may occur in other modules that provide functions which
+take a block as their first argument, like
+
+    foo { ... $_ ...} list
+
+See also: L<http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67694>
+
+=item *
+
+C<Module::Load::Conditional> and C<version> have an unfortunate
+interaction which can cause C<CPANPLUS> to crash when it encounters
+an unparseable version string.  Upgrading to C<CPANPLUS> 0.9004 or
+C<Module::Load::Conditional> 0.38 from CPAN will resolve this issue.
+
+=back
+
+
 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
 Perl 5.12.1 represents approximately four weeks of development since