From: Perl 5 Porters Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:15:47 +0000 (+0000) Subject: New file. Changes from 5.002 to 5.003 X-Git-Url: https://perl5.git.perl.org/perl5.git/commitdiff_plain/b9c9e6c22ff4de6434428e4592754db1b5a9c85e?hp=e0baa280674b8c7baf79d8fb5733b1e5d44b4f53 New file. Changes from 5.002 to 5.003 --- diff --git a/Changes5.003 b/Changes5.003 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..daba248 --- /dev/null +++ b/Changes5.003 @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +------------- +Version 5.003 +------------- + + ***> IMPORTANT NOTICE: <*** +The main reason for this release was to fix a security bug affecting +suidperl on some systems. If you build suidperl on your system, it +is strongly recommended that you replace any existing copies with +version 5.003 or later immediately. + +The changes in 5.003 have been held to a minimum, in the hope that this +will simplify installation and testing at sites which may be affected +by the security hole in suidperl. In brief, 5.003 does the following: + +- Plugs security hole in suidperl mechanism on affected systems + +- MakeMaker was also updated to version 5.34, and extension Makefile.PLs + were modified to match it. + +- The following hints files were updated: bsdos.sh, hpux.sh, linux.sh, + machten.sh, solaris_2.sh + +- A fix was added to installperl to insure that file permissions were + set correctly for the installed C header files. + +- t/op/stat.t was modified to work around MachTen's belief that /dev/null + is a terminal device. + +- Incorporation of Perl version information into the VMS' version of + config.h was changed to make it compatible with the older VAXC. + +- Minor fixes were made to VMS-specific C code, and the routine + VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand was added. + +---------------- +Version 5.002_01 +---------------- + +- The EMBED namespace changes are now used by default, in order to better + segregate Perl's C global symbols from those belonging to embedding + applications or to libraries. This makes it necessary to rebuild dynamic + extensions built under previous versions of Perl without the EMBED option. + The default use of EMBED can be overridden by placing -DNO_EMBED on the + cc command line. + + The EMBED change is the beginning of a general cleanup of C global + symbols used by Perl, so binary compatibility with previously + compiled dynamic extensions may be broken again in the next few + releases. + +- Several bugs in the core were fixed, including the following: + - made sure FILE * for -e temp file was closed only once + - improved form of single-statement macro definitions to keep + as many ccs as possible happy + - fixed file tests to insure that signed values were used when + computing differences between times. + - fixed toke.c so implicit loop isn't doubled when perl is + invoked with both the -p and -n switches + +- The new SUBVERSION number has been included in the default value for + architecture-specific library directories, so development and + production architecture-dependent libraries can coexist. + +- Two new magic variables, $^E and $^O, have been added. $^E contains the + OS-specific equivalent of $!. $^O contains the name of the operating + system, in order to make it easily available to Perl code whose behavior + differs according to its environment. The standard library files have + been converted to use $^O in preference to $Config{'osname'}. + +- A mechanism was added to allow listing of locally applied patches + in the output of perl -v. + +- Miscellaneous minor corrections and updates were made to the documentation. + +- Extensive updates were made to the OS/2 and VMS ports + +- The following hints file were updated: bsdos.sh, dynixptx.sh, + irix_6_2.sh, linux.sh, os2.sh + +- Several changes were made to standard library files: + - reduced use of English.pm and $`, $', and $& in library modules, + since these degrade module loading and evaluation of regular expressions, + respectively. + - File/Basename.pm: Added path separator to dirname('.') + - File/Copy.pm: Added support for VMS and OS/2 system-level copy + - MakeMaker updated to v5.26 + - Symbol.pm now accepts old (') and new (::) package delimiters + - Sys/Syslog.pm uses Sys::Hostname only when necessary + - chat2.pl picks up necessary constants from socket.ph + - syslog.pl: Corrected thinko 'Socket' --> 'Syslog' + - xsubpp updated to v1.935 + + +- The perlbug utility is now more cautious about sending mail, in order + to reduce the chance of accidentally send a bug report by giving the + wrong response to a prompt. + +- The -m switch has been added to perldoc, causing it to display the + Perl code in target file as well as any documentation. +