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-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.25.4
+perldelta - what is new for perl v5.25.9
=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This document describes differences between the 5.25.3 release and the 5.25.4
+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 5.25.2, first read
-L<perl5253delta>, which describes differences between 5.25.2 and 5.25.3.
+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 Notice
=head1 Deprecations
-XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here.
+=head2 String delimiters that aren't stand-alone graphemes are now
+deprecated
+
+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.
=head2 Module removals
=item *
-The rather slow implementation for the experimental subroutine signatures
-feature has been made much faster; it is now comparable in speed with the
-old-style C<my ($a, $b, @c) = @_>.
+XXX
=back
=item *
-L<NEXT> has been upgraded from version 0.65 to 0.67.
+L<B::Xref> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Compress::Raw::Bzip2> has been upgraded from version 2.069 to 2.070.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Compress::Raw::Zlib> has been upgraded from version 2.069 to 2.070.
+
+=item *
+
+L<DB_File> has been upgraded from version 1.838 to 1.840.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Devel::SelfStubber> has been upgraded from version 1.05 to 1.06.
+
+=item *
+
+L<diagnostics> has been upgraded from version 1.35 to 1.36.
+
+=item *
+
+L<DynaLoader> has been upgraded from version 1.40 to 1.41.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Errno> has been upgraded from version 1.27 to 1.28.
+
+=item *
+
+L<ExtUtils::Embed> has been upgraded from version 1.33 to 1.34.
+
+=item *
+
+L<I18N::LangTags> has been upgraded from version 0.41 to 0.42.
+
+=item *
+
+L<lib> has been upgraded from version 0.63 to 0.64.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 5.20161220 to 5.20170120.
+
+=item *
+
+L<OS2::Process> has been upgraded from version 1.11 to 1.12.
+
+=item *
+
+L<perl5db.pl> has been upgraded from version 1.50 to 1.51.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Storable> has been upgraded from version 2.59 to 2.61.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Symbol> has been upgraded from version 1.07 to 1.08.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Term::ReadLine> has been upgraded from version 1.15 to 1.16.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Test> has been upgraded from version 1.29 to 1.30.
+
+=item *
+
+L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.52 to 1.53.
+
+=item *
+
+L<Unicode::UCD> has been upgraded from version 0.67 to 0.68.
+
+=item *
+
+L<VMS::DCLsym> has been upgraded from version 1.07 to 1.08.
+
+=item *
+
+L<XSLoader> has been upgraded from version 0.24 to 0.26.
=back
=item *
-Three new ops, C<OP_ARGELEM>, C<OP_ARGDEFELEM> and C<OP_ARGCHECK> have
-been added. These are intended principally to implement the individual
-elements of a subroutine signature, plus any overall checking required.
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
-
-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>.
-
-[ List each fix as a =item entry ]
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-Problems with in-place array sorts: code like C<@a = sort { ... } @a>,
-where the source and destination of the sort are the same plain array, are
-optimised to do less copying around. Two side-effects of this optimisation
-were that the contents of C<@a> as visible to to sort routine were
-partially sorted, and under some circumstances accessing C<@a> during the
-sort could crash the interpreter. Both these issues have been fixed, and
-Sort functions see the original value of C<@a>.
+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 *
-Non-ASCII string delimiters are now reported correctly in error messages
-for unterminated strings. [perl #128701]
+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 *
-C<pack("p", ...)> used to emit its warning ("Attempt to pack pointer to
-temporary value") erroneously in some cases, but has been fixed.
+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 *
-C<@DB::args> is now exempt from "used once" warnings. The warnings only
-occurred under B<-w>, because F<warnings.pm> itself uses C<@DB::args>
-multiple times.
+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 *
-The use of built-in arrays or hash slices in a double-quoted string no
-longer issues a warning ("Possible unintended interpolation...") if the
-variable has not been mentioned before. This affected code like
-C<qq|@DB::args|> and C<qq|@SIG{'CHLD', 'HUP'}|>. (The special variables
-C<@-> and C<@+> were already exempt from the warning.)
-
-=item *
+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).
-C<gethostent> and similar functions now perform a null check internally, to
-avoid crashing with torsocks. This was a regression from 5.22. [perl
-#128740]
+=back
-=item *
+=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
-C<defined *{'!'}>, C<defined *{'['}>, and C<defined *{'-'}> no longer leak
-memory if the typeglob in question has never been accessed before.
+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 ]
-In 5.25.4 fchown() was changed not to accept negative one as an argument
-because in some platforms that is an error. However, in some other platforms
-that is an acceptable argument. This change has been reverted [perl #128967].
+=over 4
=item *
-Mentioning the same constant twice in a row (which is a syntax error) no
-longer fails an assertion under debugging builds. This was a regression
-from 5.20. [perl #126482]
+Under C<use utf8>, the entire Perl program is now checked that the UTF-8
+is wellformed. This resolves [perl #126310].
=back
XXX Generate this with:
- perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.25.3..HEAD
+ perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.25.5..HEAD
=head1 Reporting Bugs
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / blobdiff