Rewrite paragraph on using strict and warnings

[perl5.git] / pod / perldelta.pod

diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod
index 6567fd0..6dfb854 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perldelta.pod
+++ b/pod/perldelta.pod
@@ -5,15 +5,15 @@
 [ this is a template for a new perldelta file.  Any text flagged as XXX needs
 to be processed before release. ]
 
-perldelta - what is new for perl v5.31.1
+perldelta - what is new for perl v5.31.4
 
 =head1 DESCRIPTION
 
-This document describes differences between the 5.31.0 release and the 5.31.1
+This document describes differences between the 5.31.3 release and the 5.31.4
 release.
 
-If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.30.0, first read
-L<perl5310delta>, which describes differences between 5.30.0 and 5.31.0.
+If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.31.2, first read
+L<perl5313delta>, which describes differences between 5.31.2 and 5.31.3.
 
 =head1 Notice
 
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ here, but most should go in the L</Performance Enhancements> section.
 
 [ List each enhancement as a =head2 entry ]
 
+=head2 Now can dump compiled patterns before optimization
+
+This is primarily useful for tracking down bugs in the regular
+expression compiler.  This dump happens on C<-DDEBUGGING> perls, if you
+specify C<-Drv> on the command line; or on any perl if the pattern is
+compiled within the scope of S<C<use re qw(Debug DUMP_PRE_OPTIMIZE)>> or
+S<C<use re qw(Debug COMPILE EXTRA)>>.  (All but the 2nd case display
+other information as well.)
+
 =head1 Security
 
 XXX Any security-related notices go here.  In particular, any security
@@ -363,10 +372,11 @@ files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarized in L</Modules and Pragmata>.
 
 =item *
 
-close() on a pipe now preemptively clears the PerlIO object from the
-IO SV.  This prevents a second attempt to close the already closed
-PerlIO object if a signal handler calls die() or exit() while close()
-is waiting for the child process to complete.  [perl #122112]
+Perl no longer treats strings starting with "0x" or "0b" as hex or
+binary numbers respectively when converting a string to a number.
+This reverts a change in behaviour inadvertently introduced in perl
+5.30.0 intended to improve precision when converting a string to a
+floating point number. [perl #134230]
 
 =back
 
@@ -406,7 +416,7 @@ died, add a short obituary here.
 
 XXX Generate this with:
 
-  perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.31.0..HEAD
+  perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.31.3..HEAD
 
 =head1 Reporting Bugs