perl5341delta(1)

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NAME

6       perl5341delta - 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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46       •   try/catch now correctly returns the last evaluated expression when
47           the catch block has more than one statement. [GH #18855
48           <https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues/18855>]
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Acknowledgements

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

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

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