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6 perl5221delta - what is new for perl v5.22.1
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9 This document describes differences between the 5.22.0 release and the
10 5.22.1 release.
11 If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.20.0, first read
13 perl5220delta, which describes differences between 5.20.0 and 5.22.0.
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16 There are no changes intentionally incompatible with 5.20.0 other than
17 the following single exception, which we deemed to be a sensible change
18 to make in order to get the new "\b{wb}" and (in particular) "\b{sb}"
19 features sane before people decided they're worthless because of bugs
20 in their Perl 5.22.0 implementation and avoided them in the future. If
21 any others exist, they are bugs, and we request that you submit a
22 report. See "Reporting Bugs" below.
23 Bounds Checking Constructs
25 Several bugs, including a segmentation fault, have been fixed with the
26 bounds checking constructs (introduced in Perl 5.22) "\b{gcb}",
27 "\b{sb}", "\b{wb}", "\B{gcb}", "\B{sb}", and "\B{wb}". All the "\B{}"
28 ones now match an empty string; none of the "\b{}" ones do. [GH
29 #14976] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14976>
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32 Updated Modules and Pragmata
33 • Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20150520 to
34 5.20151213.
35 • PerlIO::scalar has been upgraded from version 0.22 to 0.23.
37 • POSIX has been upgraded from version 1.53 to 1.53_01.
39 If "POSIX::strerror" was passed $! as its argument then it
41 accidentally cleared $!. This has been fixed. [GH #14951]
42 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14951>
43 • Storable has been upgraded from version 2.53 to 2.53_01.
45 • warnings has been upgraded from version 1.32 to 1.34.
47 The "warnings::enabled" example now actually uses
49 "warnings::enabled". [GH #14905]
50 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14905>
51 • Win32 has been upgraded from version 0.51 to 0.52.
53 This has been updated for Windows 8.1, 10 and 2012 R2 Server.
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57 Changes to Existing Documentation
58 perltie
59 • The usage of "FIRSTKEY" and "NEXTKEY" has been clarified.
61 perlvar
63 • The specific true value of $!{E...} is now documented, noting that
65 it is subject to change and not guaranteed.
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68 The following additions or changes have been made to diagnostic output,
69 including warnings and fatal error messages. For the complete list of
70 diagnostic messages, see perldiag.
71 Changes to Existing Diagnostics
73 • The "printf" and "sprintf" builtins are now more careful about the
74 warnings they emit: argument reordering now disables the "redundant
75 argument" warning in all cases. [GH #14772]
76 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14772>
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79 • Using the "NO_HASH_SEED" define in combination with the default
80 hash algorithm "PERL_HASH_FUNC_ONE_AT_A_TIME_HARD" resulted in a
81 fatal error while compiling the interpreter, since Perl 5.17.10.
82 This has been fixed.
83 • Configuring with ccflags containing quotes (e.g.
85 "-Accflags='-DAPPLLIB_EXP=\"/usr/libperl\"'") was broken in Perl
86 5.22.0 but has now been fixed again. [GH #14732]
87 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14732>
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90 Platform-Specific Notes
91 IRIX
92 • Under some circumstances IRIX stdio fgetc() and fread() set the
93 errno to "ENOENT", which made no sense according to either IRIX
94 or POSIX docs. Errno is now cleared in such cases. [GH
95 #14557] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14557>
96 • Problems when multiplying long doubles by infinity have been
98 fixed. [GH #14993]
99 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14993>
100 • All tests pass now on IRIX with the default build
102 configuration.
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105 • "qr/(?[ () ])/" no longer segfaults, giving a syntax error message
106 instead. [GH #14851] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14851>
107 • Regular expression possessive quantifier Perl 5.20 regression now
109 fixed. "qr/"PAT"{"min,max"}+""/" is supposed to behave identically
110 to "qr/(?>"PAT"{"min,max"})/". Since Perl 5.20, this didn't work
111 if min and max were equal. [GH #14857]
112 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14857>
113 • Certain syntax errors in "Extended Bracketed Character Classes" in
115 perlrecharclass caused panics instead of the proper error message.
116 This has now been fixed. [GH #15016]
117 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15016>
118 • "BEGIN <>" no longer segfaults and properly produces an error
120 message. [GH #13546] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/13546>
121 • A regression from Perl 5.20 has been fixed, in which some syntax
123 errors in "(?[...])" constructs within regular expression patterns
124 could cause a segfault instead of a proper error message. [GH
125 #14933] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14933>
126 • Another problem with "(?[...])" constructs has been fixed wherein
128 things like "\c]" could cause panics. [GH #14934]
129 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14934>
130 • In Perl 5.22.0, the logic changed when parsing a numeric parameter
132 to the -C option, such that the successfully parsed number was not
133 saved as the option value if it parsed to the end of the argument.
134 [GH #14748] <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14748>
135 • Warning fatality is now ignored when rewinding the stack. This
137 prevents infinite recursion when the now fatal error also causes
138 rewinding of the stack. [GH #14319]
139 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14319>
140 • A crash with "%::=(); J->${\"::"}" has been fixed. [GH #14790]
142 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14790>
143 • Nested quantifiers such as "/.{1}??/" should cause perl to throw a
145 fatal error, but were being silently accepted since Perl 5.20.0.
146 This has been fixed. [GH #14960]
147 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14960>
148 • Regular expression sequences such as "/(?i/" (and similarly with
150 other recognized flags or combination of flags) should cause perl
151 to throw a fatal error, but were being silently accepted since Perl
152 5.18.0. This has been fixed. [GH #14931]
153 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/14931>
154 • A bug in hexadecimal floating point literal support meant that
156 high-order bits could be lost in cases where mantissa overflow was
157 caused by too many trailing zeros in the fractional part. This has
158 been fixed. [GH #15032]
159 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15032>
160 • Another hexadecimal floating point bug, causing low-order bits to
162 be lost in cases where the last hexadecimal digit of the mantissa
163 has bits straddling the limit of the number of bits allowed for the
164 mantissa, has also been fixed. [GH #15033]
165 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15033>
166 • Further hexadecimal floating point bugs have been fixed: In some
168 circumstances, the %a format specifier could variously lose the
169 sign of the negative zero, fail to display zeros after the radix
170 point with the requested precision, or even lose the radix point
171 after the leftmost hexadecimal digit completely.
172 • A crash caused by incomplete expressions within "/(?[ ])/" (e.g.
174 "/(?[[0]+()+])/") has been fixed. [GH #15045]
175 <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/15045>
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178 Perl 5.22.1 represents approximately 6 months of development since Perl
179 5.22.0 and contains approximately 19,000 lines of changes across 130
180 files from 27 authors.
181 Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there
183 were approximately 1,700 lines of changes to 44 .pm, .t, .c and .h
184 files.
185 Perl continues to flourish into its third decade thanks to a vibrant
187 community of users and developers. The following people are known to
188 have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.22.1:
189 Aaron Crane, Abigail, Andy Broad, Aristotle Pagaltzis, Chase Whitener,
191 Chris 'BinGOs' Williams, Craig A. Berry, Daniel Dragan, David Mitchell,
192 Father Chrysostomos, Herbert Breunung, Hugo van der Sanden, James E
193 Keenan, Jan Dubois, Jarkko Hietaniemi, Karen Etheridge, Karl
194 Williamson, Lukas Mai, Matthew Horsfall, Peter Martini, Rafael Garcia-
195 Suarez, Ricardo Signes, Shlomi Fish, Sisyphus, Steve Hay, Tony Cook,
196 Victor Adam.
197 The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically
199 generated from version control history. In particular, it does not
200 include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who
201 reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
202 Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
204 modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN
205 community for helping Perl to flourish.
206 For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors,
208 please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
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211 If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
212 recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug
213 database at https://rt.perl.org/ . There may also be information at
214 http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.
215 If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug
217 program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a
218 tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output
219 of "perl -V", will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by
220 the Perl porting team.
221 If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it
223 inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please
224 send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed
225 subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core
226 committers, who will be able to help assess the impact of issues,
227 figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to
228 mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is
229 supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the
230 Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.
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233 The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details
234 on what changed.
235 The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.
237 The README file for general stuff.
239 The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.
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