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1 | =head1 NAME |
2 | |
3 | perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3 |
4 | |
5 | =head1 DESCRIPTION |
6 | |
7 | This document describes differences between the 5.7.2 release and the |
8 | 5.7.3 release. |
9 | |
10 | (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the 5.7.0 |
11 | release, see L<perl570delta>. To view the differences between the |
12 | 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see L<perl571delta>. To view |
13 | the differences between the 5.7.1 release and the 5.7.2 release, |
14 | see L<perl572delta>.) |
15 | |
16 | =head1 Changes |
17 | |
18 | This is just a selected list of some of the more notable changes. |
19 | The numbers refer to the Perl repository change numbers; see L<Changes58> |
20 | (or L<Changes> in Perl 5.8.1). In addition to these changes, lots of |
21 | work took place in integrating threads, PerlIO, and Unicode; and general |
22 | code cleanup; and last but not least and porting to non-UNIX lands like |
23 | Win32, VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic, and EBCDIC. |
24 | |
25 | =over 4 |
26 | |
27 | =item 11362 |
28 | |
29 | add LC_MESSAGES to POSIX :locale_h export tag |
30 | |
31 | =item 11371 |
32 | |
33 | add DEL to [:cntrl:] |
34 | |
35 | =item 11375 |
36 | |
37 | make h2ph understand constants like 1234L |
38 | |
39 | =item 11405 |
40 | |
41 | fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environment under Win32 |
42 | |
43 | =item 11410 |
44 | |
45 | fix a bug in the security taint checking of open() |
46 | |
47 | =item 11423 |
48 | |
49 | make perl fork() safe even on platforms that don't have pthread_atfork() |
50 | |
51 | =item 11459 |
52 | |
53 | make switching optimization levels during Perl builds easier via |
54 | the OPTIMIZE environment variable |
55 | |
56 | =item 11475 |
57 | |
58 | make split()'s unused captures to be undef, not '' |
59 | |
60 | =item 11485 |
61 | |
62 | Search::Dict: allow transforming lines before comparing |
63 | |
64 | =item 11490 |
65 | |
66 | allow installing extra modules or bundles when building Perl |
67 | |
68 | =item 11516 |
69 | |
70 | add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed our dubious C practices |
71 | |
72 | =item 11541 |
73 | |
74 | pluggable optimizer |
75 | |
76 | =item 11549 |
77 | |
78 | integrate to WinCE port |
79 | |
80 | =item 11589 |
81 | |
82 | 4-arg select was broken on windows |
83 | |
84 | =item 11594 |
85 | |
86 | introduce the perlivp utility |
87 | |
88 | =item 11623 |
89 | |
90 | rename lib/unicode to lib/unicore to avoid case-insensitivity problems |
91 | with lib/Unicode |
92 | |
93 | =item 111631 |
94 | |
95 | remove Time::Piece |
96 | |
97 | =item 11643 |
98 | |
99 | document that use utf8 is not the right way most of the time |
100 | |
101 | =item 11656 |
102 | |
103 | allow builing perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes UTF-8 the |
104 | default script encoding |
105 | |
106 | =item 11725 |
107 | |
108 | division preserving 64-bit integers |
109 | |
110 | =item 11743 |
111 | |
112 | document the coderef-in-@INC feature |
113 | |
114 | =item 11794 |
115 | |
116 | modulu preserving 64-bit integers |
117 | |
118 | =item 11825 |
119 | |
120 | update to Unicode 3.1.1 |
121 | |
122 | =item 11865 |
123 | |
124 | add the \[$@%&*] prototype support |
125 | |
126 | =item 11874 |
127 | |
128 | oct() and hex() in glorious 64 bit |
129 | |
130 | =item 11877 |
131 | |
132 | Class::Struct: allow recursive classes |
133 | |
134 | =item 11993 |
135 | |
136 | fix unpack U to be the reverse of pack U |
137 | |
138 | =item 12056 |
139 | |
140 | waitpid enchancements for VMS |
141 | |
142 | =item 12180 |
143 | |
144 | unpack("Z*Z*", pack("Z*Z*", ..)) was broken |
145 | |
146 | =item 12243 |
147 | |
148 | Devel::Peek: display UTF-8 SVs also also as \x{...} |
149 | |
150 | =item 12288 |
151 | |
152 | Data::Dumper: option to sort hashes |
153 | |
154 | =item 12542 |
155 | |
156 | add perlpodspec |
157 | |
158 | =item 12652 |
159 | |
160 | threadsafe DynaLoader, re, Opcode, File::Glob, and B |
161 | |
162 | =item 12756 |
163 | |
164 | support BeOS better |
165 | |
166 | =item 12874 |
167 | |
168 | read-only hashes (user-level interface is Hash::Util) |
169 | |
170 | =item 13162 |
171 | |
172 | add Devel::PPPort |
173 | |
174 | =item 13179 |
175 | |
176 | add the sort pragma |
177 | |
178 | =item 13326 |
179 | |
180 | VMS: fix perl -P |
181 | |
182 | =item 13358 |
183 | |
184 | add perlpacktut |
185 | |
186 | =item 13452 |
187 | |
188 | SUPER-UX: add hints file |
189 | |
190 | =item 13575 |
191 | |
192 | Win32: non-blocking waitpid(-1,WNOHANG) |
193 | |
194 | =item 13684 |
195 | |
196 | introduce the -t option for gentler taint checking |
197 | |
198 | =item 14694 |
199 | |
200 | add the if pragma |
201 | |
202 | =item 14832 |
203 | |
204 | implement IV/UV/NV/long double un/packing with j/J/F/D |
205 | |
206 | =item 14854 |
207 | |
208 | document the new taint behaviour of exec LIST and system LIST |
209 | |
210 | =back |
211 | |
212 | =head1 Reporting Bugs |
213 | |
214 | If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles |
215 | recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl |
216 | bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be |
217 | information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page. |
218 | |
219 | If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug> |
220 | program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down |
221 | to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the |
222 | output of C<perl -V>, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be |
223 | analysed by the Perl porting team. |
224 | |
225 | =head1 SEE ALSO |
226 | |
227 | The F<Changes> file for exhaustive details on what changed. |
228 | |
229 | The F<INSTALL> file for how to build Perl. |
230 | |
231 | The F<README> file for general stuff. |
232 | |
233 | The F<Artistic> and F<Copying> files for copyright information. |
234 | |
235 | =head1 HISTORY |
236 | |
237 | Written by Jarkko Hietaniemi <F<jhi@iki.fi>>, with many contributions |
238 | from The Perl Porters and Perl Users submitting feedback and patches. |
239 | |
240 | Send omissions or corrections to <F<perlbug@perl.org>>. |
241 | |
242 | =cut |