perl5162delta(1)

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NAME

6       perl5162delta - what is new for perl v5.16.2
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DESCRIPTION

9       This document describes differences between the 5.16.1 release and the
10       5.16.2 release.
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12       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.16.0, first read
13       perl5161delta, which describes differences between 5.16.0 and 5.16.1.
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Incompatible Changes

16       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.16.0 If any
17       exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a report.  See
18       "Reporting Bugs" below.
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Modules and Pragmata

21   Updated Modules and Pragmata
22       ·   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 2.70 to version
23           2.76.
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Configuration and Compilation

26       ·   configuration should no longer be confused by ls colorization
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Platform Support

29   Platform-Specific Notes
30       AIX Configure now always adds -qlanglvl=extc99 to the CC flags on AIX
31           when using xlC.  This will make it easier to compile a number of
32           XS-based modules that assume C99 [perl #113778].
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Selected Bug Fixes

35       ·   fix /\h/ equivalence with /[\h]/
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37           see [perl #114220]
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Known Problems

40       There are no new known problems.
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Acknowledgements

43       Perl 5.16.2 represents approximately 2 months of development since Perl
44       5.16.1 and contains approximately 740 lines of changes across 20 files
45       from 9 authors.
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47       Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
48       community of users and developers. The following people are known to
49       have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.16.2:
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51       Andy Dougherty, Craig A. Berry, Darin McBride, Dominic Hargreaves,
52       Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Peter Martini, Ricardo Signes, Tony
53       Cook.
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55       The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
56       generated from version control history. In particular, it does not
57       include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
58       reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
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60       For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
61       please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
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Reporting Bugs

64       If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
65       recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug
66       database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ .  There may also be
67       information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
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69       If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug
70       program included with your release.  Be sure to trim your bug down to a
71       tiny but sufficient test case.  Your bug report, along with the output
72       of "perl -V", will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by
73       the Perl porting team.
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75       If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it
76       inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please
77       send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed
78       subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core
79       committers, who will be able to help assess the impact of issues,
80       figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to
81       mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is
82       supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl
83       core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.
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