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as "DREFed".
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change of package (relative to the previous nextstate), or a change of
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L<Carp> now detects incomplete L<caller()|perlfunc/"caller EXPR"> overrides and
avoids using bogus C<@DB::args>. To provide backtraces,
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This provides the following security fixes: the MIME boundary in
multipart_init is now random and the handling of
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C<Devel::DProf> has been upgraded from version 20080331.00 to 20110228.00.
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It allows patterns containing literal parentheses (they no longer need to
be escaped). On Windows, it no longer
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It improves handling of backslashes on Windows, so that paths like
F<c:\dir\/file> are no longer generated [perl #71710].
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The C<-x> and C<-X> file test operators now work correctly under the root
user.
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Hash::Util no longer emits spurious "uninitialized" warnings when
recursively locking hashes that have undefined values [perl #74280].
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C<langinfo()> now defaults to using C<$_> if there is no argument given, just
as the documentation has always claimed.
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It now allows IO::Handle objects (and objects in derived classes) to be
removed from an IO::Select set even if the underlying file descriptor is
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Resolves an issue with splitting Win32 command lines. An argument
consisting of the single character "0" used to be omitted (CPAN RT #62961).
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C<open3> now produces an error if the C<exec> call fails, allowing this
condition to be distinguished from a child process that exited with a
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Locale::Maketext now supports external caches.
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This fixes, among other things, incorrect results when computing binomial
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C<MIME::Base64> has been upgraded from 3.08 to 3.13.
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Besides listing the updated core modules of this release, it also stops listing
the C<Filespec> module. That module never existed in core. The scripts
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This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
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This fixes a memory leak when DBM filters are used.
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C<overload::Method> can now handle subroutines that are themselves blessed
into overloaded classes [perl #71998].
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C<Parse::CPAN::Meta> has been upgraded from version 1.40 to 1.4401.
The latest Parse::CPAN::Meta can now read YAML and JSON files using
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C<PerlIO::scalar> has been upgraded from 0.07 to 0.11.
A C<read> after a C<seek> beyond the end of the string no longer thinks it
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It now includes constants for POSIX signal constants.
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C<SelfLoader> has been upgraded from 1.17 to 1.18.
It now works in taint mode [perl #72062].
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C<Test::Simple> has been upgraded from version 0.94 to 0.98.
Among many other things, subtests without a C<plan> or C<no_plan> now have an
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C<Tie::Hash> has been upgraded from version 1.03 to 1.04.
Calling C<< Tie::Hash-E<gt>TIEHASH() >> used to loop forever. Now it C<croak>s.
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=head3 L<perlsource>, L<perlinterp>, L<perlhacktut>, and L<perlhacktips>
-See L</L<perlhack> and perlrepository revamp>, below.
+See L</perlhack and perlrepository revamp>, below.
=head2 Changes to Existing Documentation
L<overload>'s documentation has practically undergone a rewrite. It
is now much more straightforward and clear.
-=head3 L<perlhack> and perlrepository revamp
+=head3 perlhack and perlrepository revamp
The L<perlhack> and perlrepository documents have been heavily edited and
split up into several new documents.
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff