PERL5341DELTA(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide PERL5341DELTA(1)
NAME
perl5341delta - what is new for perl v5.34.1
DESCRIPTION
This document describes differences between the 5.34.0 release and the
5.34.1 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.33.0, first read
perl5340delta, which describes differences between 5.33.0 and 5.34.0.
Incompatible Changes
There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.34.0. 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
• B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.56 to 1.57.
• Encode has been upgraded from version 3.08 to 3.08_01.
• GDBM_File has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.19_01.
• Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20210520 to
5.20220313.
• perl5db.pl has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.60_01.
Testing
Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes
in this release.
Platform-Specific Notes
Windows
• Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual
Studio 2022 (containing Visual C++ 14.3) has been added.
Selected Bug Fixes
• B::Deparse now correctly handles try/catch blocks with more complex
scopes. [GH #18874 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18874>]
• try/catch now correctly returns the last evaluated expression when
the catch block has more than one statement. [GH #18855
<https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18855>]
Acknowledgements
Perl 5.34.1 represents approximately 10 months of development since Perl
5.34.0 and contains approximately 4,600 lines of changes across 60 files
from 23 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
were approximately 1,100 lines of changes to 18 .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 5.34.1:
Andrew Fresh, Atsushi Sugawara, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, Hugo
van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Leon Timmermans,
Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Michiel Beijen, Neil Bowers, Nicolas
R., Paul Evans, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sawyer X,
Sergey Poznyakoff, Steve Hay, Tomasz Konojacki, 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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