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-=for todo
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=head1 NAME
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.17.6
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.17.4, first read
L<perl5175delta>, which describes differences between 5.17.4 and 5.17.5.
-=head1 Notice
-
-XXX - NOTICE ABOUT HASH RANDOMIZATION SHOULD BE ADDED
-
=head1 Core Enhancements
=head2 Character name aliases may now include non-Latin1-range characters
perform equivalently to the old one for shorter strings and is faster,
potentially twice as fast, for hashing longer strings.
-=head1 Security
-
=head1 Incompatible Changes
=head2 An unknown character name in C<\N{...}> is now a syntax error
cause a fatal error. Beware that both core tests as well as many a CPAN
distribution's tests will fail with this change. On the upside, it provides
a small performance benefit due to reduced branching.
-Do not enable this unless you know exactly what you are getting yourself into.
+
+B<Do not enable this unless you know exactly what you are getting yourself
+into.>
=back
=back
-=head1 Diagnostics
-
-The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
-including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
-diagnostic messages, see L<perldiag>.
-
-XXX New or changed warnings emitted by the core's C<C> code go here. Also
-include any changes in L<perldiag> that reconcile it to the C<C> code.
-
-=head2 New Diagnostics
-
-XXX Newly added diagnostic messages go under here, separated into New Errors
-and New Warnings
-
-=head3 New Errors
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
-
-=back
-
-=head3 New Warnings
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX L<message|perldiag/"message">
-
-=back
-
-=head2 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
-
-XXX Changes (i.e. rewording) of diagnostic messages go here
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX Describe change here
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Configuration and Compilation
-
-XXX Changes to F<Configure>, F<installperl>, F<installman>, and analogous tools
-go here. Any other changes to the Perl build process should be listed here.
-However, any platform-specific changes should be listed in the
-L</Platform Support> section, instead.
-
-[ List changes as a =item entry ].
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
-=head1 Testing
-
-XXX Any significant changes to the testing of a freshly built perl should be
-listed here. Changes which create B<new> files in F<t/> go here as do any
-large changes to the testing harness (e.g. when parallel testing was added).
-Changes to existing files in F<t/> aren't worth summarizing, although the bugs
-that they represent may be covered elsewhere.
-
-[ List each test improvement as a =item entry ]
-
-=over 4
-
-=item *
-
-XXX more tests descriptions!
-
-=item *
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
=head1 Platform Support
-XXX Any changes to platform support should be listed in the sections below.
-
-[ Within the sections, list each platform as a =item entry with specific
-changes as paragraphs below it. ]
-
-=head2 New Platforms
-
-XXX List any platforms that this version of perl compiles on, that previous
-versions did not. These will either be enabled by new files in the F<hints/>
-directories, or new subdirectories and F<README> files at the top level of the
-source tree.
-
-=over 4
-
-=item XXX-some-platform
-
-XXX
-
-=back
-
=head2 Discontinued Platforms
=over 4
=head2 Platform-Specific Notes
-XXX List any changes for specific platforms. This could include configuration
-and compilation changes or changes in portability/compatibility. However,
-changes within modules for platforms should generally be listed in the
-L</Modules and Pragmata> section.
-
=over 4
=item VMS
=head1 Acknowledgements
-XXX Generate this with:
-
- perl Porting/acknowledgements.pl v5.17.5..HEAD
+Perl 5.17.6 represents approximately 5 weeks of development since Perl 5.17.5
+and contains approximately 79,000 lines of changes across 460 files from 30
+authors.
+
+Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant community
+of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the
+improvements that became Perl 5.17.6:
+
+Alexandr Ciornii, Brian Fraser, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry,
+Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker, Daniel Dragan, David Golden, David Mitchell, Dominic
+Hargreaves, Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Florian Ragwitz, Hugo van der
+Sanden, James E Keenan, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Luehrs, Karl Williamson, Lukas
+Mai, Nicholas Clark, Paul Johnson, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Ruslan Zakirov,
+Shlomi Fish, Steffen Müller, Steve Hay, Tom Wyant, Tony Cook, Vadim Konovalov,
+Yves Orton.
+
+The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated
+from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of
+the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug
+tracker.
+
+Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN modules
+included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN community for
+helping Perl to flourish.
+
+For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see
+the F<AUTHORS> file in the Perl source distribution.
=head1 Reporting Bugs
https://perl5.git.perl.org / perl5.git / commitdiff