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<h1>perl588delta</h1>
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<p>perl588delta - what is new for perl v5.8.8</p>
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>
<p>This document describes differences between the 5.8.7 release and
the 5.8.8 release.</p>
<a name="Incompatible-Changes"></a><h1>Incompatible Changes</h1>
<p>There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.8.7. If any exist,
they are bugs and reports are welcome.</p>
<a name="Core-Enhancements"></a><h1>Core Enhancements</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/chdir.html">chdir</a></code>, <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/chmod.html">chmod</a></code> and <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/chown.html">chown</a></code> can now work on filehandles as well as
filenames, if the system supports respectively <code class="inline"><span class="w">fchdir</span></code>
, <code class="inline"><span class="w">fchmod</span></code>
and
<code class="inline"><span class="w">fchown</span></code>
, thanks to a patch provided by Gisle Aas.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<a name="Modules-and-Pragmata"></a><h1>Modules and Pragmata</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Attribute::Handlers</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.78_02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fix</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">attrs</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup only</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">autouse</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Simplified implementation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">B</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.09_01</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The inheritance hierarchy of the <code class="inline"><span class="w">B::</span></code>
modules has been corrected;
<code class="inline"><span class="w">B::NV</span></code>
now inherits from <code class="inline"><span class="w">B::SV</span></code>
(instead of <code class="inline"><span class="w">B::IV</span></code>
).</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">blib</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.03</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fix</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">ByteLoader</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.06</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">CGI</span></code>
upgraded to version 3.15</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Extraneous "?" from <code class="inline"><span class="i">self_url</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
removed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">scrolling_list</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
select attribute fixed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">virtual_port</span></code>
now works properly with the https protocol</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">upload_hook</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="i">append</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
now works in function-oriented mode</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">POST_MAX</span></code>
doesn't cause the client to hang any more</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Automatic tab indexes are now disabled and new <code class="inline">-<span class="w">tabindex</span></code>
pragma has
been added to turn automatic indexes back on</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">end_form</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
doesn't emit empty (and non-validating) <code class="inline"><span class="q"><div></span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">CGI::Carp</span></code>
works better in certain mod_perl configurations</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Setting <code class="inline"><span class="i">$CGI::TMPDIRECTORY</span></code>
is now effective</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">charnames</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">viacode</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
now accept hex strings and has been optimized.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">CPAN</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.76_02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>1 minor bug fix for Win32</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Cwd</span></code>
upgraded to version 3.12</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">canonpath</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
on Win32 now collapses <i>foo\..</i> sections correctly.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Improved behaviour on Symbian OS.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation and typo fixes</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Data::Dumper</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.121_08</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A problem where <code class="inline"><span class="w">Data::Dumper</span></code>
would sometimes update the iterator state
of hashes has been fixed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Numeric labels now work</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">DB</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.01</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A problem where the state of the regexp engine would sometimes get clobbered when running
under the debugger has been fixed.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">DB_File</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.814</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Adds support for Berkeley DB 4.4.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Devel::DProf</span></code>
upgraded to version 20050603.00</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Devel::Peek</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.03</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Devel::PPPort</span></code>
upgraded to version 3.06_01</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline">--<span class="w">compat</span>-<span class="w">version</span></code>
argument checking has been improved</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Files passed on the command line are filtered by default</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline">--<span class="w">nofilter</span></code>
option to override the filtering has been added</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">diagnostics</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.15</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fix</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Digest</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.14</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The constructor now knows which module implements SHA-224</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation tweaks and typo fixes</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Digest::MD5</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.36</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">XSLoader</span></code>
is now used for faster loading</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation including MD5 weaknesses discovered lately</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Dumpvalue</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.12</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation fix</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">DynaLoader</span></code>
upgraded but unfortunately we're not able to increment its version number :-(</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Implements <code class="inline"><span class="w">dl_unload_file</span></code>
on Win32</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">XSLoader</span></code>
0.06 incorporated; small optimisation for calling
<code class="inline"><span class="i">bootstrap_inherit</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
and documentation enhancements.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Encode</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.12</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>A coderef is now acceptable for <code class="inline">CHECK</code>
!</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>3 new characters added to the ISO-8859-7 encoding</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>New encoding <code class="inline"><span class="w">MIME</span>-<span class="w">Header</span>-<span class="w">ISO_2022_JP</span></code>
added</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Problem with partial characters and <code class="inline"><span class="i">encoding</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="w">utf</span>-<span class="n">8</span>-<span class="w">strict</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
fixed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation enhancements and typo fixes</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">English</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>the <code class="inline"><span class="i">$COMPILING</span></code>
variable has been added</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">ExtUtils::Constant</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.17</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Improved compatibility with older versions of perl</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">ExtUtils::MakeMaker</span></code>
upgraded to version 6.30 (was 6.17)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Too much to list here; see <a href="http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/Changes">http://search.cpan.org/dist/ExtUtils-MakeMaker/Changes</a></p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">File::Basename</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.74, with changes contributed by Michael Schwern.</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation clarified and errors corrected.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">basename</span></code>
now strips trailing path separators before processing the name.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">basename</span></code>
now returns <code class="inline">/</code> for parameter <code class="inline">/</code>, to make <code class="inline"><span class="w">basename</span></code>
consistent with the shell utility of the same name.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The suffix is no longer stripped if it is identical to the remaining characters
in the name, again for consistency with the shell utility.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Some internal code cleanup.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">File::Copy</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.09</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Copying a file onto itself used to fail.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Moving a file between file systems now preserves the access and
modification time stamps</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">File::Find</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.10</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Win32 portability fixes</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">File::Glob</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">File::Path</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.08</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">mkpath</span></code>
now preserves <code class="inline"><span class="w">errno</span></code>
when <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/mkdir.html">mkdir</a></code> fails</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">File::Spec</span></code>
upgraded to version 3.12</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">File::Spec</span>-</code>
rootdir()> now returns <code class="inline">\</code>
on Win32, instead of <code class="inline">/</code></p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">$^O</span></code>
could sometimes become tainted. This has been fixed.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">canonpath</span></code>
on Win32 now collapses <code class="inline"><span class="w">foo</span>/..</code>
(or <code class="inline"><span class="w">foo</span>\..</code>
) sections
correctly, rather than doing the "misguided" work it was previously doing.
Note that <code class="inline"><span class="w">canonpath</span></code>
on Unix still does <b>not</b> collapse these sections, as
doing so would be incorrect.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Some documentation improvements</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Some internal code cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">FileCache</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.06</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>POD formatting errors in the documentation fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Filter::Simple</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.82</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">FindBin</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.47</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Now works better with directories where access rights are more
restrictive than usual.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">GDBM_File</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.08</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Getopt::Long</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.35</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">prefix_pattern</span></code>
has now been complemented by a new configuration
option <code class="inline"><span class="w">long_prefix_pattern</span></code>
that allows the user to specify what
prefix patterns should have long option style semantics applied.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Options can now take multiple values at once (experimental)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Various bug fixes</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline">if</code>
upgraded to version 0.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Give more meaningful error messages from <code class="inline">if</code>
when invoked with a
condition in list context.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Restore backwards compatibility with earlier versions of perl</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">IO</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.22</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">IPC::Open2</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">IPC::Open3</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">List::Util</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.18 (was 1.14)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fix pure-perl version of <code class="inline"><span class="w">refaddr</span></code>
to avoid blessing an un-blessed reference</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Use <code class="inline"><span class="w">XSLoader</span></code>
for faster loading</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixed various memory leaks</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup and portability fixes</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Math::Complex</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.35</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/atan2.html">atan2</a><span class="s">(</span><span class="n">0</span><span class="cm">,</span> <span class="w">i</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
now works, as do all the (computable) complex argument cases</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Fixes for certain bugs in <code class="inline"><span class="w">make</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="w">emake</span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support returning the <i>k</i>th root directly</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support <code class="inline">[2,-3pi/8]</code> in <code class="inline"><span class="w">emake</span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support <code class="inline"><span class="w">inf</span></code>
for <code class="inline"><span class="w">make</span></code>
/<code class="inline"><span class="w">emake</span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Document <code class="inline"><span class="w">make</span></code>
/<code class="inline"><span class="w">emake</span></code>
more visibly</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Math::Trig</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.03</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Add more great circle routines: <code class="inline"><span class="w">great_circle_waypoint</span></code>
and
<code class="inline"><span class="w">great_circle_destination</span></code>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">MIME::Base64</span></code>
upgraded to version 3.07</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Use <code class="inline"><span class="w">XSLoader</span></code>
for faster loading</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">NDBM_File</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.06</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">ODBM_File</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.06</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fixed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Opcode</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.06</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/open.html">open</a></code> upgraded to version 1.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">overload</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.04</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">PerlIO</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.04</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">PerlIO::via</span></code>
iterate over layers properly now</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">PerlIO::scalar</span></code>
understands <code class="inline"><span class="i">$/</span> = <span class="q">""</span></code>
now</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">encoding</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="w">utf</span>-<span class="n">8</span>-<span class="w">strict</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
with partial characters now works</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Pod::Functions</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.03</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Pod::Html</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.0504</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>HTML output will now correctly link
to <code class="inline"><span class="pd">=item</span></code>
s on the same page, and should be valid XHTML.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Variable names are recognized as intended</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Pod::Parser</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.32</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Allow files that start with <code class="inline"><span class="pd">=head</span></code>
on the first line</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Win32 portability fix</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Exit status of <code class="inline"><span class="w">pod2usage</span></code>
fixed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>New <code class="inline">-<span class="w">noperldoc</span></code>
switch for <code class="inline"><span class="w">pod2usage</span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Arbitrary URL schemes now allowed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">POSIX</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.09</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">re</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Safe</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.12</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Minor documentation enhancement</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">SDBM_File</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fixed</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Socket</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.78</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Storable</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.15</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>This includes the <code class="inline"><span class="w">STORABLE_attach</span></code>
hook functionality added by
Adam Kennedy, and more frugal memory requirements when storing under <code class="inline"><span class="w">ithreads</span></code>
, by
using the <code class="inline"><span class="w">ithreads</span></code>
cloning tracking code.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Switch</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.10_01</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Sys::Syslog</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.13</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Now provides numeric macros and meaningful <code class="inline"><span class="w">Exporter</span></code>
tags.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>No longer uses <code class="inline"><span class="w">Sys::Hostname</span></code>
as it may provide useless values in
unconfigured network environments, so instead uses <code class="inline"><span class="w">INADDR_LOOPBACK</span></code>
directly.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">syslog</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
now uses local timestamp.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">setlogmask</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
now behaves like its C counterpart.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">setlogsock</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
will now <code class="inline"><span class="i">croak</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
as documented.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Improved error and warnings messages.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Improved documentation.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Term::ANSIColor</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.10</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Fixes a bug in <code class="inline"><span class="w">colored</span></code>
when <code class="inline"><span class="i">$EACHLINE</span></code>
is set that caused it to not color
lines consisting solely of 0 (literal zero).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Improved tests.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Term::ReadLine</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation tweaks</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Test::Harness</span></code>
upgraded to version 2.56 (was 2.48)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>The <code class="inline"><span class="w">Test::Harness</span></code>
timer is now off by default.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Now shows elapsed time in milliseconds.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Various bug fixes</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Test::Simple</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.62 (was 0.54)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">is_deeply</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
no longer fails to work for many cases</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Various minor bug fixes</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation enhancements</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Text::Tabs</span></code>
upgraded to version 2005.0824</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Provides a faster implementation of <code class="inline"><span class="w">expand</span></code>
</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Text::Wrap</span></code>
upgraded to version 2005.082401</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Adds <code class="inline"><span class="i">$Text::Wrap::separator2</span></code>
, which allows you to preserve existing newlines
but add line-breaks with some other string.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">threads</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.07</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">threads</span></code>
will now honour <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/no.html">no</a> <span class="w">warnings</span> <span class="q">'threads'</span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>A thread's interpreter is now freed after <code class="inline"><span class="i">$t</span><span class="i">->join</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
rather than after
<code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/undef.html">undef</a> <span class="i">$t</span></code>
, which should fix some <code class="inline"><span class="w">ithreads</span></code>
memory leaks. (Fixed by Dave
Mitchell)</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Some documentation typo fixes.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">threads::shared</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.94</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation changes only</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Note: An improved implementation of <code class="inline"><span class="w">threads::shared</span></code>
is available on
CPAN - this will be merged into 5.8.9 if it proves stable.</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Tie::Hash</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Time::HiRes</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.86 (was 1.66)</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="i">clock_nanosleep</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="i">clock</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
functions added</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Support for the POSIX <code class="inline"><span class="i">clock_gettime</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="i">clock_getres</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
has been added</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Return <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/undef.html">undef</a></code> or an empty list if the C <code class="inline"><span class="i">gettimeofday</span><span class="s">(</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
function fails</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Improved <code class="inline"><span class="w">nanosleep</span></code>
detection</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Unicode::Collate</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.52</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Now implements UCA Revision 14 (based on Unicode 4.1.0).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Unicode::Collate</span>-</code>
new> method no longer overwrites user's <code class="inline"><span class="i">$_</span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Enhanced documentation</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Unicode::UCD</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.24</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">User::grent</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.01</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typo fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">utf8</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.06</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">vmsish</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Documentation typos fixed</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">warnings</span></code>
upgraded to version 1.05</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Gentler messing with <code class="inline"><span class="w">Carp::</span></code>
internals</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation update</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Win32</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.2601</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Provides Windows Vista support to <code class="inline"><span class="w">Win32::GetOSName</span></code>
</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Documentation enhancements</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">XS::Typemap</span></code>
upgraded to version 0.02</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Internal cleanup</p>
</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<a name="Utility-Changes"></a><h1>Utility Changes</h1>
<a name="h2xs-enhancements"></a><h2><code class="inline"><span class="w">h2xs</span></code>
enhancements</h2>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">h2xs</span></code>
implements new option <code class="inline">--<a class="l_k" href="functions/use.html">use</a>-<span class="w">xsloader</span></code>
to force use of
<code class="inline"><span class="w">XSLoader</span></code>
even in backwards compatible modules.</p>
<p>The handling of authors' names that had apostrophes has been fixed.</p>
<p>Any enums with negative values are now skipped.</p>
<a name="perlivp-enhancements"></a><h2><code class="inline"><span class="w">perlivp</span></code>
enhancements</h2>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">perlivp</span></code>
implements new option <code class="inline">-<span class="w">a</span></code>
and will not check for <i>*.ph</i>
files by default any more. Use the <code class="inline">-<span class="w">a</span></code>
option to run <i>all</i> tests.</p>
<a name="New-Documentation"></a><h1>New Documentation</h1>
<p>The <a href="perlglossary.html">perlglossary</a> manpage is a glossary of terms used in the Perl
documentation, technical and otherwise, kindly provided by O'Reilly Media,
inc.</p>
<a name="Performance-Enhancements"></a><h1>Performance Enhancements</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<p>Weak reference creation is now <i>O(1)</i> rather than <i>O(n)</i>, courtesy of
Nicholas Clark. Weak reference deletion remains <i>O(n)</i>, but if deletion only
happens at program exit, it may be skipped completely.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Salvador Fandiño provided improvements to reduce the memory usage of <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/sort.html">sort</a></code>
and to speed up some cases.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Jarkko Hietaniemi and Andy Lester worked to mark as much data as possible in
the C source files as <code class="inline"><span class="w">static</span></code>
, to increase the proportion of the executable
file that the operating system can share between process, and thus reduce
real memory usage on multi-user systems.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<a name="Installation-and-Configuration-Improvements"></a><h1>Installation and Configuration Improvements</h1>
<p>Parallel makes should work properly now, although there may still be problems
if <code class="inline"><span class="w">make</span> <span class="w">test</span></code>
is instructed to run in parallel.</p>
<p>Building with Borland's compilers on Win32 should work more smoothly. In
particular Steve Hay has worked to side step many warnings emitted by their
compilers and at least one C compiler internal error.</p>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">Configure</span></code>
will now detect <code class="inline"><span class="w">clearenv</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="w">unsetenv</span></code>
, thanks to a patch
from Alan Burlison. It will also probe for <code class="inline"><span class="w">futimes</span></code>
and whether <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/sprintf.html">sprintf</a></code>
correctly returns the length of the formatted string, which will both be used
in perl 5.8.9.</p>
<p>There are improved hints for next-3.0, vmesa, IX, Darwin, Solaris, Linux,
DEC/OSF, HP-UX and MPE/iX</p>
<p>Perl extensions on Windows now can be statically built into the Perl DLL,
thanks to a work by Vadim Konovalov. (This improvement was actually in 5.8.7,
but was accidentally omitted from <a href="perl587delta.html">perl587delta</a>).</p>
<a name="Selected-Bug-Fixes"></a><h1>Selected Bug Fixes</h1>
<a name="no-warnings-'category'-works-correctly-with--w"></a><h2>no warnings 'category' works correctly with -w</h2>
<p>Previously when running with warnings enabled globally via <code class="inline">-w</code>
, selective
disabling of specific warning categories would actually turn off all warnings.
This is now fixed; now <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/no.html">no</a> <span class="w">warnings</span> <span class="q">'io'</span><span class="sc">;</span></code>
will only turn off warnings in the
<code class="inline"><span class="w">io</span></code>
class. Previously it would erroneously turn off all warnings.</p>
<p>This bug fix may cause some programs to start correctly issuing warnings.</p>
<a name="Remove-over-optimisation"></a><h2>Remove over-optimisation</h2>
<p>Perl 5.8.4 introduced a change so that assignments of <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/undef.html">undef</a></code> to a
scalar, or of an empty list to an array or a hash, were optimised away. As
this could cause problems when <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/goto.html">goto</a></code> jumps were involved, this change
has been backed out.</p>
<a name="sprintf()-fixes"></a><h2>sprintf() fixes</h2>
<p>Using the sprintf() function with some formats could lead to a buffer
overflow in some specific cases. This has been fixed, along with several
other bugs, notably in bounds checking.</p>
<p>In related fixes, it was possible for badly written code that did not follow
the documentation of <code class="inline"><span class="w">Sys::Syslog</span></code>
to have formatting vulnerabilities.
<code class="inline"><span class="w">Sys::Syslog</span></code>
has been changed to protect people from poor quality third
party code.</p>
<a name="Debugger-and-Unicode-slowdown"></a><h2>Debugger and Unicode slowdown</h2>
<p>It had been reported that running under perl's debugger when processing
Unicode data could cause unexpectedly large slowdowns. The most likely cause
of this was identified and fixed by Nicholas Clark.</p>
<a name="Smaller-fixes"></a><h2>Smaller fixes</h2>
<ul>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">FindBin</span></code>
now works better with directories where access rights are more
restrictive than usual.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Several memory leaks in ithreads were closed. An improved implementation of
<code class="inline"><span class="w">threads::shared</span></code>
is available on CPAN - this will be merged into 5.8.9 if
it proves stable.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Trailing spaces are now trimmed from <code class="inline"><span class="i">$!</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="i">$^E</span></code>
.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Operations that require perl to read a process's list of groups, such as reads
of <code class="inline"><span class="i">$(</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="i">$)</span></code>
, now dynamically allocate memory rather than using a
fixed sized array. The fixed size array could cause C stack exhaustion on
systems configured to use large numbers of groups.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><span class="w">PerlIO::scalar</span></code>
now works better with non-default <code class="inline"><span class="i">$/</span></code>
settings.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>You can now use the <code class="inline"><span class="w">x</span></code>
operator to repeat a <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/qw.html">qw//</a></code> list. This used
to raise a syntax error.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The debugger now traces correctly execution in eval("")uated code that
contains #line directives.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The value of the <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/open.html">open</a></code> pragma is no longer ignored for three-argument
opens.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>The optimisation of <code class="inline">for <span class="s">(</span><a class="l_k" href="functions/reverse.html">reverse</a> <span class="i">@a</span><span class="s">)</span></code>
introduced in perl 5.8.6 could
misbehave when the array had undefined elements and was used in LVALUE
context. Dave Mitchell provided a fix.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Some case insensitive matches between UTF-8 encoded data and 8 bit regexps,
and vice versa, could give malformed character warnings. These have been
fixed by Dave Mitchell and Yves Orton.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p><code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/lcfirst.html">lcfirst</a></code> and <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/ucfirst.html">ucfirst</a></code> could corrupt the string for certain cases where
the length UTF-8 encoding of the string in lower case, upper case or title
case differed. This was fixed by Nicholas Clark.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Perl will now use the C library calls <code class="inline"><span class="w">unsetenv</span></code>
and <code class="inline"><span class="w">clearenv</span></code>
if present
to delete keys from <code class="inline"><span class="i">%ENV</span></code>
and delete <code class="inline"><span class="i">%ENV</span></code>
entirely, thanks to a patch
from Alan Burlison.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<a name="New-or-Changed-Diagnostics"></a><h1>New or Changed Diagnostics</h1>
<a name="Attempt-to-set-length-of-freed-array"></a><h2>Attempt to set length of freed array</h2>
<p>This is a new warning, produced in situations such as this:</p>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> <span class="i">$r</span> = <a class="l_k" href="functions/do.html">do</a> <span class="s">{</span><a class="l_k" href="functions/my.html">my</a> <span class="i">@a</span><span class="sc">;</span> \<span class="i">$#a</span><span class="s">}</span><span class="sc">;</span></li><li> <span class="i">$$r</span> = <span class="n">503</span><span class="sc">;</span></li></ol></pre><a name="Non-string-passed-as-bitmask"></a><h2>Non-string passed as bitmask</h2>
<p>This is a new warning, produced when number has been passed as a argument to
select(), instead of a bitmask.</p>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> <span class="c"># Wrong, will now warn</span></li><li> <span class="i">$rin</span> = <a class="l_k" href="functions/fileno.html">fileno</a><span class="s">(</span><span class="w">STDIN</span><span class="s">)</span><span class="sc">;</span></li><li> <span class="s">(</span><span class="i">$nfound</span><span class="cm">,</span><span class="i">$timeleft</span><span class="s">)</span> = <a class="l_k" href="functions/select.html">select</a><span class="s">(</span><span class="i">$rout</span>=<span class="i">$rin</span><span class="cm">,</span> <a class="l_k" href="functions/undef.html">undef</a><span class="cm">,</span> <a class="l_k" href="functions/undef.html">undef</a><span class="cm">,</span> <span class="i">$timeout</span><span class="s">)</span><span class="sc">;</span></li><li> </li><li> <span class="c"># Should be</span></li><li> <span class="i">$rin</span> = <span class="q">''</span><span class="sc">;</span></li><li> <a class="l_k" href="functions/vec.html">vec</a><span class="s">(</span><span class="i">$rin</span><span class="cm">,</span><a class="l_k" href="functions/fileno.html">fileno</a><span class="s">(</span><span class="w">STDIN</span><span class="s">)</span><span class="cm">,</span><span class="n">1</span><span class="s">)</span> = <span class="n">1</span><span class="sc">;</span></li><li> <span class="s">(</span><span class="i">$nfound</span><span class="cm">,</span><span class="i">$timeleft</span><span class="s">)</span> = <a class="l_k" href="functions/select.html">select</a><span class="s">(</span><span class="i">$rout</span>=<span class="i">$rin</span><span class="cm">,</span> <a class="l_k" href="functions/undef.html">undef</a><span class="cm">,</span> <a class="l_k" href="functions/undef.html">undef</a><span class="cm">,</span> <span class="i">$timeout</span><span class="s">)</span><span class="sc">;</span></li></ol></pre><a name="Search-pattern-not-terminated-or-ternary-operator-parsed-as-search-pattern"></a><h2>Search pattern not terminated or ternary operator parsed as search pattern</h2>
<p>This syntax error indicates that the lexer couldn't find the final
delimiter of a <code class="inline"><span class="q">?PATTERN?</span></code>
construct. Mentioning the ternary operator in
this error message makes it easier to diagnose syntax errors.</p>
<a name="Changed-Internals"></a><h1>Changed Internals</h1>
<p>There has been a fair amount of refactoring of the <code class="inline"><span class="w">C</span></code>
source code, partly to
make it tidier and more maintainable. The resulting object code and the
<code class="inline"><span class="w">perl</span></code>
binary may well be smaller than 5.8.7, in particular due to a change
contributed by Dave Mitchell which reworked the warnings code to be
significantly smaller. Apart from being smaller and possibly faster, there
should be no user-detectable changes.</p>
<p>Andy Lester supplied many improvements to determine which function
parameters and local variables could actually be declared <code class="inline"><span class="w">const</span></code>
to the C
compiler. Steve Peters provided new <code class="inline"><span class="i">*_set</span></code>
macros and reworked the core to
use these rather than assigning to macros in LVALUE context.</p>
<p>Dave Mitchell improved the lexer debugging output under <code class="inline">-<span class="w">DT</span></code>
</p>
<p>Nicholas Clark changed the string buffer allocation so that it is now rounded
up to the next multiple of 4 (or 8 on platforms with 64 bit pointers). This
should reduce the number of calls to <code class="inline"><span class="w">realloc</span></code>
without actually using any
extra memory.</p>
<p>The <code class="inline"><span class="w">HV</span></code>
's array of <code class="inline"><span class="w">HE</span>*</code>
s is now allocated at the correct (minimal) size,
thanks to another change by Nicholas Clark. Compile with
<code class="inline">-<span class="w">DPERL_USE_LARGE_HV_ALLOC</span></code>
to use the old, sloppier, default.</p>
<p>For XS or embedding debugging purposes, if perl is compiled with
<code class="inline">-<span class="w">DDEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS_FORK_DUMP</span></code>
in addition to
<code class="inline">-<span class="w">DDEBUG_LEAKING_SCALARS</span></code>
then a child process is <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/fork.html">fork</a></code>ed just before
global destruction, which is used to display the values of any scalars
found to have leaked at the end of global destruction. Without this, the
scalars have already been freed sufficiently at the point of detection that
it is impossible to produce any meaningful dump of their contents. This
feature was implemented by the indefatigable Nicholas Clark, based on an idea
by Mike Giroux.</p>
<a name="Platform-Specific-Problems"></a><h1>Platform Specific Problems</h1>
<p>The optimiser on HP-UX 11.23 (Itanium 2) is currently partly disabled (scaled
down to +O1) when using HP C-ANSI-C; the cause of problems at higher
optimisation levels is still unclear.</p>
<p>There are a handful of remaining test failures on VMS, mostly due to
test fixes and minor module tweaks with too many dependencies to
integrate into this release from the development stream, where they have
all been corrected. The following is a list of expected failures with
the patch number of the fix where that is known:</p>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> ext/Devel/PPPort/t/ppphtest.t #26913</li><li> ext/List/Util/t/p_tainted.t #26912</li><li> lib/ExtUtils/t/PL_FILES.t #26813</li><li> lib/ExtUtils/t/basic.t #26813</li><li> t/io/fs.t</li><li> t/op/cmp.t</li></ol></pre><a name="Reporting-Bugs"></a><h1>Reporting Bugs</h1>
<p>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 <a href="http://bugs.perl.org">http://bugs.perl.org</a>. There may also be
information at <a href="http://www.perl.org">http://www.perl.org</a>, the Perl Home Page.</p>
<p>If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the <b>perlbug</b>
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 <code class="inline"><span class="w">perl</span> -<span class="w">V</span></code>
, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be
analysed by the Perl porting team. You can browse and search
the Perl 5 bugs at <a href="http://bugs.perl.org/">http://bugs.perl.org/</a></p>
<a name="SEE-ALSO"></a><h1>SEE ALSO</h1>
<p>The <i>Changes</i> file for exhaustive details on what changed.</p>
<p>The <i>INSTALL</i> file for how to build Perl.</p>
<p>The <i>README</i> file for general stuff.</p>
<p>The <i>Artistic</i> and <i>Copying</i> files for copyright information.</p>
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