=head1 DESCRIPTION
-This document describes differences between the 5.11.3 release and
+This document describes differences between the 5.11.2 release and
the 5.11.3 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.11.3, first read
=head1 Incompatible Changes
-=item Filehandles are blessed directly into C<IO::Handle::>, as L<FileHandle/> is merely a wrapper around L<IO::Handle/>.
+=over
+=item Filehandles are blessed directly into C<IO::Handle::>, as C<FileHandle> is merely a wrapper around C<IO::Handle>.
+
+XXX Some description of why this change was made would be nice -- e.g. what
+the benefit that justifies the incompatibility -- dagolden, 2009-12-20
+
+=back
=head1 Core Enhancements
Perl is shipped with the latest Unicode version, 5.2, October 2009. See
L<http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0> for details about this release
-of Unicode.
-
-But, an installation can now fairly easily change Perl to operate on any
-Unicode release. Perl is shipped with the latest official release, but
-an installation can download and install any prior release from Unicode, and
-cause Perl to work with that (or even multiple releases). Instructions are in
-L<perlunicode>.
+of Unicode. See L<perlunicode> for instructions on installing and using
+older versions of Unicode.
=head2 Unicode properties
in writing regular expressions: C<\p{property=value}> and
C<\p{property:value}> (both of which mean the same thing).
-Perl now supports fully the Unicode loose matching rules for text
+Perl now fully supports the Unicode loose matching rules for text
between the braces in C<\p{...}> constructs. In addition, Perl also allows
underscores between digits of numbers.
change is that C<\X> will match an isolated mark. Marks generally come after a
base character, but it is possible in Unicode to have them in isolation, and
C<\X> will now handle that case. Otherwise, this change should be transparent
-for the non-affected languages.
+for non-affected languages.
C<\p{...}> matches using the Canonical_Combining_Class property were
completely broken in previous Perls. This is now fixed.
C<\p{Print}> no longer matches the line control characters: tab, lf, cr,
ff, vt, and nel. This brings it in line with the documentation.
-\p{Decomposition_Type=Canonical} now includes the Hangul syllables
+C<\p{Decomposition_Type=Canonical}> now includes the Hangul syllables
The Numeric type property has been extended to include the Unihan
characters.
accessible via the CPAN module Unicode::Unihan) and any deprecated or
Unicode internal-only property that Perl has never exposed.
+XXX what does "files in the To directory" mean? -- dagolden, 2009-12-20
+
The files in the To directory are now more clearly marked as being
stable, directly usable by applications. New hash entries in them give
the format of the normal entries which allows for easier machine
=over 4
-=item C<warnings::fatal_enabled>
-
- Add code and starting perldoc for warnings::fatal_enabled.
-
- This is an analog for warnings::enabled, except it tests whether the
- given category has been set fatal using "use warnings FATAL => foo".
- This is mostly for symmetry.
-
- Assumes that the fatal bit for a category will have an offset one higher
- than the regular bit for the category, because otherwise much rewriting
- of __chk would be required.
-
XXX
=back
=over 4
-=item Don't make C<use legacy> die on unknown legacy names
+=item C<constant>
+
+Upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.20.
-So we can use C<use legacy "qubits"> to avoid the new "qubit" behaviour,
-without worrying about perls that didn't have qubit support at all. :)
+=item C<feature>
-NOTE: C<B<legacy>> will be removed before 5.12.0.
+Upgraded from 1.13 to 1.14. Added the C<unicode_strings> feature:
+ use feature "unicode_strings";
+
+This pragma turns on Unicode semantics for the case-changing operations
+(uc/lc/ucfirst/lcfirst) on strings that don't have the internal UTF-8 flag set,
+but that contain single-byte characters between 128 and 255.
+
+=item C<legacy>
+
+The experimental C<legacy> pragma, introduced in 5.11.2, has been removed,
+and its functionality replaced by the new feature pragma, C<use feature
+"unicode_strings">.
+
+=item C<threads>
+
+Upgraded from version 1.74 to 1.75.
+
+=item C<warnings>
+
+Upgraded from 1.07 to 1.08. Added new C<warnings::fatal_enabled()> function.
=back
=head2 Updated Modules
+XXX This should be generated with Porting/corelist-perldelta.pl once
+Module::Corelist is updated for 5.011003.
+
=over 4
-=item C<XXX>
+=item C<Archive::Extract>
- Updated CPANPLUS to cpan release 0.90
- Bring up ExtUtils::MakeMaker to 6.56 - no functional changes from 6.55_03
- Upgrade to threads 1.75
+Upgraded from version 0.34 to 0.36.
- Import CPAN.pm 1.94_53 from CPAN
+=item C<CPAN>
- Updated Module::Build to 0.35_15
-
- Update Cwd / PathTools to 3.31 to get us a non-devel version number based on a chat with Steffen. No code changes.
+Upgraded from version 1.94_51 to 1.94_53. Includes better bzip2 support,
+improved FirstTime experience with auto-selection of CPAN mirrors, proper
+handling of modules removed from the Perl core, and an updated 'cpan'
+utility script
- Updated to Pod::Simple 3.11 from CPAN [perl #71004]
+=item C<CPANPLUS>
+Upgraded from version 0.89_09 to 0.90.
- Update Archive::Extract to cpan version 0.36
+=item C<ExtUtils::MakeMaker>
-XXX
-=item
+Upgraded from version 6.55_02 to 6.56. Adds new BUILD_REQUIRES key to
+indicate build-only prerequisites. Also adds support for
+mingw64 and the new "package NAME VERSION" syntax.
+
+=item C<File::Path>
+
+Upgraded from version 2.08 to 2.08_01.
+
+=item C<Module::Build>
+
+Upgraded from version 0.35_09 to 0.36. Compared to 0.35, this version has a
+new 'installdeps' action, supports the PERL_MB_OPT environment variable, adds a
+'share_dir' property for L<File::ShareDir> support, support the "package NAME
+VERSION" syntax and has many other enhancements and bug fixes. The
+'passthrough' style of Module::Build::Compat has been deprecated.
+
+=item C<Module::CoreList>
+
+Upgraded from version 2.23 to 2.24.
- File::Find was not resolving paths of the form "/..////../" correctly.
- Fixed by adding a quantifier to the substitution parameter in
- contract_name().
+=item C<Pod::Simple>
+
+Upgraded from version 3.10 to 3.13.
+
+=item C<Safe>
+
+Upgraded from version 2.19 to 2.20.
=back
=over 4
-=item F<XXX>
+=item F<perlbug>
-XXX
+No longer reports "Message sent" when it hasn't actually sent the message
- Perlbug no longer reports "Message sent" when it hasn't actually sent the message
=back
=head1 New Documentation
Any changes to F<pod/perldiag.pod> should go in L</New or Changed Diagnostics>.
- legalize =begin foo bar
+The Pod specification (L<perlpodspec>) has been updated to bring the
+specification in line with modern usage already supported by most Pod systems.
+A parameter string may now follow the format name in a "begin/end" region.
+Links to URIs with a text description are now allowed. The usage of
+C<LE<lt>"section"E<gt>> has been marked as deprecated.
- more aggressively deprecate L<section> and L<"section">
-
- remove prohibition against L<text|href>
-
- Document if.pm in perlfunc
+L<if.pm|if> has been documented in L<perlfunc/use> as a means to get
+conditional loading of modules despite the implicit BEGIN block around C<use>.
=item Win32
-=over 4
+=over 4
=item *
=back
+=back
+
=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
XXX Important bug fixes in the core language are summarised here.
=head1 New Tests
-XXX Changes which create B<new> files in F<t/> go here. Changes to
-existing files in F<t/> aren't worth summarising, although the bugs that
-they represent may be.
+Many modules updated from CPAN incorporate new tests.
=over 4
-=item F<XXX>
+=item t/comp/final_line_num.t
-XXX
+See if line numbers are correct at EOF
+
+=item t/comp/form_scope.t
+
+See if format scoping works
+
+=item t/comp/line_debug.t
+
+See if @{"_<$file"} works
+
+=item t/op/filetest_t.t
+
+See if -t file test works
+
+=item t/op/qr.t
+
+See if qr works
+
+=item t/op/utf8cache.t
+
+Tests malfunctions of utf8 cache
+
+=item t/re/uniprops.t
+
+Test unicode \p{} regex constructs
=back
Date: Thu Dec 17 18:28:16 2009 -0800
Export PL_curinterp symbol for MULTIPLICITY without USE_ITHREADS
-
+
This is necessary for XS extensions that define PERL_CORE. In that
situation PERL_GET_CONTEXT will resolve to PL_curinterp, which is
normally not exported (extensions call Perl_Gcurinterp_ptr() to get a
commit 8703a9a4fd75723318bc4ba1afc42a215806f2d1
- Correct some #ifdef USE_ITHREADS / USE_MULTI
+ Correct some #ifdef USE_ITHREADS / USE_MULTI
Author: Jan Dubois <jand@activestate.com>
Date: Wed Dec 16 15:42:19 2009 -0800
-t should only return TRUE for file handles connected to a TTY
-
+
The Microsoft C version of isatty() returns TRUE for all
character mode devices, including the /dev/null style "nul"
device and printers like "lpt1".
-
+
The included test has only been tested on Windows and Linux;
the device names for OS/2 and VMS are just best guesses...
commit 0f907b96d618c97cd2e020841a70ae037954a616
[perl #70171] 5.10.0 -> 5.10.1 Regression in fafafbaf70 (Big slowdown in 5.10 @_ parameter passing)
-
+
commit 2ab54efd6265713df5cd4bd0927024245675c1c2
fix bug 67156: overload: nomethod(..., '!') return value inverted
commit 412147f664b7f5805591ad996d7e5a9e70b3d80f
[perl #71204] diagnostics.pm suppresses 'Use of uninitialized value in range (or flip)' warning
-
+
commit 69dc4b30f4725ad5f212d45d3c856ac1caaacf17
Author: Father Chrysostomos <sprout@cpan.org>
Date: Mon Dec 14 12:19:35 2009 +0100
[perl #70764] $' fails to initialized for pre-compiled regular expression matches
-
+
The match vars are associated with the regexp that last matched
successfully. In the case of $str =~ $qr or /$qr/, since the $qr could
be used in multiple scopes that need their own sets of match vars, the
happens in pp_regcomp before pp_match has stringified the LHS, hence the
bug. In short, /$gror/ is not equivalent to
($which = !$which) ? /$gror/ : /$gror/, which is weird.
-
+
Author: Reini Urban <rurban@x-ray.at>
Date: Sun Dec 13 08:06:43 2009 +0100
Eliminate OP_SETSTATE from cop.h header
-
+
It had been added with change 3728 to track linenumbers in
optimized else, disabled by change 4309,
and removed with change 33072.
-
+
Bump copyright, latest change was "Fix MULTICALL in List-Util" 2009-03-07
with commit 1bbbfc50
commit 8a27a13e89107aaf68c0748b68ee71fbd86d774b
[perl #71076] sort with active sub (5.10 regression)
-
+
One of the tests in sort.t causes a bus error (or sometimes â\80\98Undefined
subroutine calledâ\80\99) if run multiple times. This is because sort
decreases the refcount of an active sub used as a comparison routine.
-
+
commit 69c3dccf5322a59cb855347c04712ba11b65328f
Fix [perl #71078] Smart match against @_ gives false negatives
-
+
@_ can contain NULLs for undefined elements
[perl #71000] Wrong variable name in warning ; Add a new warning "Missing argument in %s"
commit adab996997d7ef1b54d382f5ab4304f438cd1dd0
Cleanup all scopes before exiting a pseudo-forked process.
-
+
perl_destruct() contains an assertion that the scope stack
is empty. The remaining scopes are due to fork() being
called from within a BEGIN block.
-=item *
-
-
-
commit 576b33a19ccaf98d4dfe201d529c55c3747f0cb6
[rt.cpan.org #51574] Safe.pm sort {} bug accessing $a and $b with -Dusethreads
commit dfd167e94af611f6248e804cb228b35ca4123bd6
Handle $@ being assigned a read-only value (without error or busting the stack).
-
+
Discovered whilst investigating RT #70862.
commit f5fa9033b8c1fdcbd7710850b3b0380d6b937853
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