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NAME

6       perldelta - what is new for perl v5.34.1
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DESCRIPTION

9       This document describes differences between the 5.34.0 release and the
10       5.34.1 release.
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12       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.33.0, first read
13       perl5340delta, which describes differences between 5.33.0 and 5.34.0.
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Incompatible Changes

16       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.34.0.  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       •   B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.56 to 1.57.
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24       •   Encode has been upgraded from version 3.08 to 3.08_01.
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26       •   GDBM_File has been upgraded from version 1.19 to 1.19_01.
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28       •   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20210520 to
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31       •   perl5db.pl has been upgraded from version 1.60 to 1.60_01.
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Testing

34       Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes
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37   Platform-Specific Notes
38       Windows
39           •   Support for compiling perl on Windows using Microsoft Visual
40               Studio 2022 (containing Visual C++ 14.3) has been added.
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Selected Bug Fixes

43       •   B::Deparse now correctly handles try/catch blocks with more complex
44           scopes.  [GH #18874 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18874>]
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Acknowledgements

47       Perl 5.34.1 represents approximately 10 months of development since
48       Perl 5.34.0 and contains approximately 4,600 lines of changes across 60
49       files from 23 authors.
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51       Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
52       were approximately 1,100 lines of changes to 18 .pm, .t, .c and .h
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55       Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
56       community of users and developers. The following people are known to
57       have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.34.1:
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59       Andrew Fresh, Atsushi Sugawara, Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, Hugo
60       van der Sanden, James E Keenan, Karen Etheridge, Leon Timmermans,
61       Matthew Horsfall, Max Maischein, Michiel Beijen, Neil Bowers, Nicolas
62       R., Paul Evans, Renee Baecker, Ricardo Signes, Richard Leach, Sawyer X,
63       Sergey Poznyakoff, Steve Hay, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Yves Orton.
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65       The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
66       generated from version control history. In particular, it does not
67       include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
68       reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
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70       Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
71       modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN
72       community for helping Perl to flourish.
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74       For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
75       please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
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Reporting Bugs

78       If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug
79       database at <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  There may also be
80       information at <http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
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82       If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
83       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  Be sure to trim your bug down
84       to a tiny but sufficient test case.
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86       If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
87       inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY
88       VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
89       report the issue.
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Give Thanks

92       If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in
93       Perl 5, you can do so by running the "perlthanks" program:
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95           perlthanks
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97       This will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of
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