PERL5361DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5361DELTA(1)
NAME
perl5361delta - what is new for perl v5.36.1
DESCRIPTION
This document describes differences between the 5.36.0 release and the
5.36.1 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.35.0, first read
perl5360delta, which describes differences between 5.35.0 and 5.36.0.
Incompatible Changes
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.36.0. If any
exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report. See
"Reporting Bugs" below.
Modules and Pragmata
Updated Modules and Pragmata
• Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20220520 to
5.20230423.
Configuration and Compilation
• "Configure" probed for the return type of malloc() and free() by
testing whether declarations for those functions produced a function
type mismatch with the implementation. On Solaris, with a C++
compiler, this check always failed, since Solaris instead imports
malloc() and free() from "std::" with "using" for C++ builds. Since
the return types of malloc() and free() are well defined by the C
standard, skip probing for them. "Configure" command-line arguments
and hints can still override these type in the unlikely case that is
needed. [GH #20806 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20806>]
Testing
Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes
in this release.
Selected Bug Fixes
• An eval() as the last statement in a regex code block could trigger
an interpreter panic; e.g.
/(?{ ...; eval {....}; })/
[GH #19680 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19680>]
• An "eval EXPR" referring to a lexical sub defined in grandparent
scope no longer produces an assertion failures. [GH #19857
<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/19857>]
• Writing to a magic variables associated with the selected output
handle, $^, $~, $=, "$-" and $%, no longer crashes perl if the IO
object has been cleared from the selected output handle. [GH #20733
<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/20733>]
Acknowledgements
Perl 5.36.1 represents approximately 11 months of development since Perl
5.36.0 and contains approximately 5,500 lines of changes across 62 files
from 24 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
were approximately 1,600 lines of changes to 23 .pm, .t, .c and .h
files.
Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
community of users and developers. The following people are known to
have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.36.1:
Andreas König, Bram, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Dagfinn
Ilmari Mannsåker, David Mitchell, Elvin Aslanov, Florian Weimer, Graham
Knop, Hugo van der Sanden, Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Leon
Timmermans, Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Neil Bowers, Nicolas R,
Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Steve Hay, Todd Rinaldo,
Tony Cook, 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 AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
Reporting Bugs
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug
database at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. There may also be
information at <http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>. Be sure to trim your bug down
to a tiny but sufficient test case.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY
VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
report the issue.
Give Thanks
If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl
5, you can do so by running the "perlthanks" program:
perlthanks
This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of
thanks.
SEE ALSO
The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on
what changed.
The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
The README file for general stuff.
The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.
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