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| =head1 NAME |
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| perl5123delta - what is new for perl v5.12.3 |
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| =head1 DESCRIPTION |
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| This document describes differences between the 5.12.2 release and |
| the 5.12.3 release. |
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| If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.12.1, first read |
| L<perl5122delta>, which describes differences between 5.12.1 and |
| 5.12.2. The major changes made in 5.12.0 are described in L<perl5120delta>. |
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| =head1 Incompatible Changes |
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| There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.12.2. If any |
| exist, they are bugs and reports are welcome. |
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| =head1 Core Enhancements |
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| =head2 C<keys>, C<values> work on arrays |
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| You can now use the C<keys>, C<values>, C<each> builtin functions on arrays |
| (previously you could only use them on hashes). See L<perlfunc> for details. |
| This is actually a change introduced in perl 5.12.0, but it was missed from |
| that release's perldelta. |
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| =head1 Bug Fixes |
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| "no VERSION" will now correctly deparse with B::Deparse, as will certain |
| constant expressions. |
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| Module::Build should be more reliably pass its tests under cygwin. |
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| Lvalue subroutines are again able to return copy-on-write scalars. This |
| had been broken since version 5.10.0. |
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| =head1 Platform Specific Notes |
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| =over 4 |
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| =item Solaris |
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| A separate DTrace is now build for miniperl, which means that perl can be |
| compiled with -Dusedtrace on Solaris again. |
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| =item VMS |
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| A number of regressions on VMS have been fixed. In addition to minor cleanup |
| of questionable expressions in F<vms.c>, file permissions should no longer be |
| garbled by the PerlIO layer, and spurious record boundaries should no longer be |
| introduced by the PerlIO layer during output. |
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| For more details and discussion on the latter, see: |
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| http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.vmsperl/2010/11/msg15419.html |
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| =item VOS |
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| A few very small changes were made to the build process on VOS to better |
| support the platform. Longer-than-32-character filenames are now supported on |
| OpenVOS, and build properly without IPv6 support. |
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| =back |
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| =head1 Acknowledgements |
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| Perl 5.12.3 represents approximately four months of development since |
| Perl 5.12.2 and contains approximately 2500 lines of changes across |
| 54 files from 16 authors. |
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| 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 5.12.3: |
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| Craig A. Berry, David Golden, David Leadbeater, Father Chrysostomos, Florian |
| Ragwitz, Jesse Vincent, Karl Williamson, Nick Johnston, Nicolas Kaiser, Paul |
| Green, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Rainer Tammer, Ricardo Signes, Steffen Mueller, |
| Zsbán Ambrus, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason |
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| =head1 Reporting Bugs |
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| If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles |
| recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl |
| bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be |
| information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page. |
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| If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug> |
| program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down |
| to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the |
| output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be |
| analysed by the Perl porting team. |
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| If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it |
| inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send |
| it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription |
| unarchived mailing list, which includes |
| all the core committers, who will be able |
| to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help |
| co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all |
| platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for |
| security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently |
| distributed on CPAN. |
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| =head1 SEE ALSO |
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| The F<Changes> file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details |
| on what changed. |
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| The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. |
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| The F<README> file for general stuff. |
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| The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. |
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| =cut |