perl5302delta(1)

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NAME

6       perl5302delta - what is new for perl v5.30.2
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DESCRIPTION

9       This document describes differences between the 5.30.1 release and the
10       5.30.2 release.
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12       If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.30.0, first read
13       perl5301delta, which describes differences between 5.30.0 and 5.30.1.
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Incompatible Changes

16       There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.30.0.  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       •   Compress::Raw::Bzip2 has been upgraded from version 2.084 to 2.089.
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24       •   Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20191110 to
25           5.20200314.
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Documentation

28   Changes to Existing Documentation
29       We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes
30       listed in this document.  If you find any we have missed, send email to
31       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.
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Configuration and Compilation

34       •   GCC 10 is now supported by Configure.
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Testing

37       Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes
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Platform Support

41   Platform-Specific Notes
42       Windows
43           The MYMALLOC (PERL_MALLOC) build on Windows has been fixed.
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Selected Bug Fixes

46       •   printf() or sprintf() with the %n format no longer cause a panic on
47           debugging builds, or report an incorrectly cached length value when
48           producing "SVfUTF8" flagged strings.
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50           [GH #17221 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17221>]
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52       •   A memory leak in regular expression patterns has been fixed.
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54           [GH #17218 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17218>]
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56       •   A read beyond buffer in grok_infnan has been fixed.
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58           [GH #17370 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17370>]
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60       •   An assertion failure in the regular expression engine has been
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63           [GH #17372 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17372>]
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65       •   "(?{...})" eval groups in regular expressions no longer
66           unintentionally trigger "EVAL without pos change exceeded limit in
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69           [GH #17490 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/17490>]
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Acknowledgements

72       Perl 5.30.2 represents approximately 4 months of development since Perl
73       5.30.1 and contains approximately 2,100 lines of changes across 110
74       files from 15 authors.
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76       Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
77       were approximately 920 lines of changes to 30 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
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79       Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant
80       community of users and developers.  The following people are known to
81       have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.30.2:
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83       Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Dan Book, David Mitchell, Hugo van der Sanden,
84       Karen Etheridge, Karl Williamson, Matthew Horsfall, Nicolas R., Petr
85       PisaX, Renee Baecker, Sawyer X, Steve Hay, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook,
86       Yves Orton.
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88       The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
89       generated from version control history.  In particular, it does not
90       include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
91       reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
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93       Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
94       modules included in Perl's core.  We're grateful to the entire CPAN
95       community for helping Perl to flourish.
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97       For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
98       please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
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Reporting Bugs

101       If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug
102       database at <https://rt.perl.org/>.  There may also be information at
103       <http://www.perl.org/>, the Perl Home Page.
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105       If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at
106       <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues>.  Be sure to trim your bug down
107       to a tiny but sufficient test case.
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109       If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it
110       inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY
111       VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to
112       report the issue.
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Give Thanks

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