or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version
releases.)
+
+----------------
+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
+----------------
+
+We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Eliminate support for {if,unless,while,until} BLOCK BLOCK"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perly.c perly.c.diff perly.y toke.c
+
+ Title: "Taint $x after $x =~ s/pat/xyz/ if pat or xyz is tainted by locale"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h mg.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Complete support for modifying undefined array members in foreach"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym mg.c perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "patch for regex bug: (x|x){n}"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612210259.VAA10170@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 21:59:22 -0500
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Bug in debugger with import manipulations"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612231037.FAA08617@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 05:37:48 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Import and dynamic methods"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612230645.BAA08378@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:45:37 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: gv.c hv.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "malloc.c patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612220748.CAA07164@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 02:48:58 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "sv_gets patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612220824.DAA07235@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:24:04 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "pos $str patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612220831.DAA07247@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 1996 03:31:21 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: mg.c pp_hot.c t/op/pat.t
+
+ Title: "Prevent warnings when STDCHAR is unsigned"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perlio.c perlio.h
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix bugs in bincompat3 usage"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.h perl_exp.SH
+
+ Title: "Support shared libperl on SunOS"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Configure on OS/2"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612202325.SAA05505@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 18:25:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Fixes for Interactive Unix"
+ From: win@in.rhein-main.de (Winfried Koenig)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vbeNO-00003WC@incom.rhein-main.de>
+ Date: Sun, 22 Dec 96 05:14 EET
+ Files: hints/isc.sh op.c pp_sys.c universal.c
+
+ Title: "Use "proto" instead of "_" in sdbm.h"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h
+
+ Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_13"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IDBYYFYPIS002ASE@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 01:26:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: deb.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c lib/File/Copy.pm mg.c perl.c
+ perl.h proto.h sv.c t/lib/filecopy.t taint.c toke.c util.c
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/gen_shrfls.pl vms/genconfig.pl vms/genopt.com
+ vms/perly_c.vms vms/perly_h.vms vms/test.com vms/vms.c
+ vms/vms_yfix.pl
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Remove libnet"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN module to 1.08"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to version 1.28"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+
+ Title: "Update IO->VERSION() to 1.1201 for CPAN's sake"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ Title: "Remodel File::Copy."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/File/Copy.pm
+
+ Title: "dumb bug in User::pwent.pm"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612201145.EAA27860@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 04:45:37 -0700
+ Files: lib/User/pwent.pm
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Better support for =for"
+ From: Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.LNX.3.93.961220163747.298T-100000@kjahds.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 16:43:35 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ Title: "perllocale.pod -- second draft"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03007800aee1923e30a2@[194.51.248.68]>
+ Date: Sat, 21 Dec 1996 15:00:50 +0100
+ Files: pod/perllocale.pod
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 26"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612201943.AA048111018@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 11:43:38 -0800
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "Update pod/Makefile; s/perli18n/perllocale/"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.pod lib/I18N/Collate.pm pod/Makefile
+ pod/perl.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlnews.pod pod/roffitall
+
+ Title: "obstruct pod2man doc tweaks"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <3923.851106237@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Fri, 20 Dec 1996 13:23:57 -0500
+ Files: lib/Class/Template.pm lib/Time/tm.pm
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_13
+----------------
+
+The watchword here is "synchronization." There were a couple of
+show-stopper bugs in 5.003_12, so I'm issuing this patch to bring
+everyone up to a common working base.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Disallow labels named q, qq, qw, qx, s, y, and tr"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make evals' lexicals visible to nested evals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump bug with anoncode"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Allow DESTROY to make refs to dying objects"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Add missing backslash in Configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Include libnet-1.01 instead of old Net::FTP"
+ From: Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Net/Cmd.pm lib/Net/Domain.pm
+ lib/Net/DummyInetd.pm lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/NNTP.pm
+ lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/POP3.pm lib/Net/SMTP.pm
+ lib/Net/SNPP.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm lib/Net/Telnet.pm
+ lib/Net/Time.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Use binmode when doing binary FTP"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Files: lib/Net/FTP.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: Open3.pm tries to close unopened file handle"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzloavmd9h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 18 Dec 1996 22:19:54 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm lib/open2.pl
+ lib/open3.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod t/lib/open2.t
+ t/lib/open3.t
+
+ Title: "Long-standing problem in Socket module"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199612190418.XAA07291@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 23:18:14 -0500
+ Files: Configure Porting/Glossary config_H config_h.SH
+ ext/Socket/Socket.pm ext/Socket/Socket.xs
+
+ Title: "flock() constants"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <26669.850977437@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 01:37:17 -0500
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: find2perl . -xdev BROKEN still"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzvi9yig3h.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 19 Dec 1996 12:44:34 -0500
+ Files: lib/File/Find.pm lib/find.pl lib/finddepth.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "small doc tweaks for _12"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <1826.851011557@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 11:05:57 -0500
+ Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltie.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: missing E<> POD directive in perlpod.pod"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzwwueimak.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 19 Dec 1996 10:30:43 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
+
+
----------------
Version 5.003_12
----------------
projects / p5sagit/p5-mst-13.2.git / blobdiff