----------------
+Version 5.003_17
+----------------
+
+The rate of patches is slowing down.... I see 5.004 at the end of the
+tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?)
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Support named closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cv.h op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "perl5.003_15 and Interactive Unix"
+ From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vd254-0004oKC@incom.rhein-main.de>
+ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 00:45:45 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/isc.sh pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Suggest "usemymalloc='n'" for FreeBSD 2.*"
+ From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall)
+ Files: hints/freebsd.sh
+
+ Title: "Minor OS/2 fixes"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612252105.QAA11890@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 25 Dec 1996 16:05:42 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: os2/os2ish.h pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix {,un}tainting of $1 etc. when C<use locale>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Limit effects of "=pod" to a single file"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New tests: op/method.t and op/locale.t"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich and Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: MANIFEST t/lib/locale.t t/op/method.t
+
+ Title: "Test C< ()=() >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: t/op/misc.t
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.39"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Title: "Newer debugger"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612261954.OAA12999@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 14:54:34 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 27"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612250144.AA059528263@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 17:44:23 -0800
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perlpod.pod patch for _16"
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961224225906.337B-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 23:00:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod
+
+ Title: "tiny perllocale.pod diff for _16"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199612261306.PAA21161@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 26 Dec 1996 15:06:04 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_16
+----------------
+
+This patch is all bug fixes, library updates, and documentation
+updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-)
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix closures that are not in subroutines"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "_13: patches for unicos/unicosmk"
+ From: Dean Roehrich <roehrich@cray.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612202038.OAA22805@poplar.cray.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 14:38:50 -0600
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/unicos.sh hints/unicosmk.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix 'foreach(@ARGV) { while (<>) { push @p,$_ } }'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h pp_hot.c scope.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate warnings from C< undef $x; $x OP= "foo" >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: doop.c pp.c pp.h pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Try again to improve method caching"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612240113.UAA09487@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 20:13:56 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: gv.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Be more careful about 'o' magic memory management"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix bad pointer refs when localized object loses magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: scope.c
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.09"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Net::Ping to 2.02"
+ From: Russell Mosemann <mose@ccsn.edu>
+ Files: lib/Net/Ping.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh IO to 1.14"
+ From: Graham Barr
+ Files: MANIFEST ext/IO/IO.xs ext/IO/README ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Select.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_pipe.t
+ t/lib/io_sel.t t/lib/io_sock.t t/lib/io_tell.t
+ t/lib/io_udp.t t/lib/io_xs.t
+
+ BUILD PROCESS AND UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Don't recurse into subdirs twice on 'make realclean'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Use root EXTERN.h when compiling x2p/malloc.c."
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Files: x2p/Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Fix compilation errors when malloc.c used for x2p"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Edit INSTALL to describe new binary compat setup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Update to perllocale.pod"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_15
+----------------
+
+As soon as I posted 5.003_14, I found a fatal error in it. :-(
+
+This release is strictly a bug fix -- it removes some function caching
+changes that were supposed to be improvements, but weren't.
+
+
+----------------
Version 5.003_14
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