optional module when its current directory is untrusted (such as F</tmp>),
it could load and execute code from under that directory.
-Starting with v5.26.0, C<.> is always removed by default, not just under
+Starting with v5.26, C<.> is always removed by default, not just under
tainting. This has major implications for installing modules and executing
scripts.
=head2 POSIX::tmpnam() has been removed
The fundamentally unsafe C<tmpnam()> interface was deprecated in
-Perl 5.22.0 and has now been removed. In its place you can use,
+Perl 5.22 and has now been removed. In its place you can use,
for example, the L<File::Temp> interfaces.
=head2 require ::Foo::Bar is now illegal.
=head2 C<NBSP> is no longer permissible in C<\N{...}>
The name of a character may no longer contain non-breaking spaces. It
-has been deprecated to do so since Perl v5.22.
+has been deprecated to do so since Perl 5.22.
=head1 Deprecations
L<C<${^ENCODING}> is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28|perldiag/"${^ENCODING} is no longer supported. Its use will be fatal in Perl 5.28">
(D deprecated) The special variable C<${^ENCODING}>, formerly used to implement
-the C<encoding> pragma, is no longer supported as of Perl 5.26.0.
+the C<encoding> pragma, is no longer supported as of Perl 5.26.
=item *
=item *
C<undef *_; shift> or C<undef *_; pop> inside a subroutine, with no
-argument to C<shift> or C<pop>, began crashing in Perl 5.14.0, but has now
+argument to C<shift> or C<pop>, began crashing in Perl 5.14, but has now
been fixed.
=item *
=item *
C<do> or C<require> with a reference or typeglob which, when stringified,
-contains a null character started crashing in Perl 5.20.0, but has now been
+contains a null character started crashing in Perl 5.20, but has now been
fixed. [perl #128182]
=back
=item *
Calling macros like C<isALPHA_utf8> on malformed UTF-8 have issued a
-deprecation warning since Perl v5.18. They now die.
+deprecation warning since Perl 5.18. They now die.
Similarly, macros like C<toLOWER_utf8> on malformed UTF-8 now die.
=item *
Perl is now built with the C<PERL_OP_PARENT> compiler define enabled by
default. To disable it, use the C<PERL_NO_OP_PARENT> compiler define.
This flag alters how the C<op_sibling> field is used in C<OP> structures,
-and has been available optionally since perl 5.22.0.
+and has been available optionally since perl 5.22.
See L<perl5220delta/"Internal Changes"> for more details of what this
build option does.
=item *
-Since 5.24.0 in some obscure cases, a regex which included code blocks
+Since 5.24 in some obscure cases, a regex which included code blocks
from multiple sources (I<e.g.>, via embedded via qr// objects) could end up
with the wrong current pad and crash or give weird results. [perl #129881]
=item * L<Coro>
-L<Coro> and perl v5.22.0 were already incompatible due to a change in the perl,
+L<Coro> and perl 5.22 were already incompatible due to a change in the perl,
and the reworking on the perl context stack creates a further incompatibility.
perl5-porters has L<discussed the issue on the mailing
list|http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2016/05/msg236174.html>.
=item *
-The module L<lexical::underscore> no longer works on perl v5.24.0, because perl
+The module L<lexical::underscore> no longer works on Perl 5.24, because perl
no longer has a lexical C<$_>!
=item *
-C<mod_perl> has been patched for compatibility for v5.22.0 and later but no
+C<mod_perl> has been patched for compatibility for v5.22 and later but no
release has been made. The relevant patch (and other changes) can be found in
their source code repository, L<mirrored at
GitHub|https://github.com/apache/mod_perl/commit/82827132efd3c2e25cc413c85af61bb63375da6e>.
=item *
-Fixed issues with recursive regexes. The behavior was fixed in Perl 5.24.0.
+Fixed issues with recursive regexes. The behavior was fixed in Perl 5.24.
L<[perl #126182]|https://rt.perl.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=126182>
=back
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