releases.)
----------------
+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
+----------------
+
+This patch is huge. A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially
+CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated
+docs... it's a long list. And speaking of lists, here's a list of
+the more significant changes in 5.003_12:
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Support C<delete @hash{@keys}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c op.h opcode.pl pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
+ t/op/delete.t
+
+ Title: "Autovivify scalars"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: dump.c op.c op.h pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Allow any word, including keyword, as label"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Allow assignment to empty array values during foreach()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: cop.h global.sym mg.c op.c perl.h pp_hot.c proto.h sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix nested closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on auto-vivification"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on C<open $undef_var, "X">"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix -T/-B on globs and globrefs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory management of $`, $&, and $'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Fix paren matching during backtracking"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Fix memory leak and std{in,out,err} death in perl_{con,de}str
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: miniperlmain.c perl.c perl.h sv.c
+
+ Title: "Discard garbage bytes at end of prototype()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix local($pack::{foo})"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h scope.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for AmigaOS - inplace operation"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724601@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 15:33:00 +0100
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ Title: "Disable warn, die, and parse hooks _before_ global destruction
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Re: Bug in formline "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612081958.OAA26025@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 08 Dec 1996 14:58:32 -0500
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<@a = ($a,$b,$c,$d) = (1,2)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix %ENV assignment when environment starts out empty"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ Title: "Properly support and document newRV{,_inc,_noinc}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: global.sym pod/perlguts.pod sv.c sv.h
+
+ Title: "Support SvREADONLY on arrays"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Allow lvalue pos inside recursive function"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: op.c pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Eliminate PerlIO warnings when setting cnt to -1"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: perlio.c
+
+ Title: "Make $privlib contents compatible with 5.003"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: INSTALL ext/Opcode/Safe.pm installperl lib/FileHandle.pm
+ lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Support $bincompat3 config variable; update metaconfig units"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST compat3.sym config_h.SH embed.pl global.sym
+ old_embed.pl old_global.sym old_perl_exp.SH perl_exp.SH
+
+ Title: "Look for gettimeofday() in Configure"
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Msg-ID: <01BBE77A.F6F37F80@malvinas.AtlanTech.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 15:49:57 +0100
+ Files: Configure config_H config_h.SH pp.c
+
+ Title: "Make $startperl a relative path if people want portable scrip
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Homogenize use of "eval exec" hack"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Porting/Glossary eg/README eg/nih eg/sysvipc/ipcmsg
+ eg/sysvipc/ipcsem eg/sysvipc/ipcshm lib/diagnostics.pm
+ makeaperl.SH pod/checkpods.PL pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/pod2html.PL pod/pod2latex.PL pod/pod2man.PL
+ pod/pod2text.PL utils/c2ph.PL utils/h2ph.PL utils/h2xs.PL
+ utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL utils/pl2pm.PL x2p/a2py.c
+ x2p/find2perl.PL x2p/s2p.PL
+
+ Title: "LynxOS support"
+ From: seibert@Lynx.COM (Greg Seibert)
+ Msg-ID: <m0vYEsY-0000IZC@kzinti.lynx.com>
+ Date: Thu, 12 Dec 1996 09:25:00 PST
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST hints/lynxos.sh t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "In Linux hints, set suidsafe=no and dosuid=yes"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: hints/linux.sh
+
+ Title: "5.003_11 on UnixWare 2.1.1 - Only one small UnixWare buglet"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.453720@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 96 18:34 GMT0
+ Files: hints/svr4.sh
+
+ Title: "Re: db-recno.t failures with _11 on Freebsd 2.1-stable"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzohg0r5tr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Dec 1996 18:58:56 -0500
+ Files: INSTALL hints/freebsd.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 updates from Ilya"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: README.os2 os2/Changes os2/Makefile.SHs os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
+
+ Title: "VMS patches to 5.003_11"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICTR32LCZG001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 23:16:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST regexec.c t/lib/filehand.t util.c vms/*
+
+ TESTING
+
+ Title: "recurse recurse recurse ..."
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199612092144.XAA29025@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 23:44:27 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/recurse.t
+
+ UTILITIES, LIBRARY, AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Add CPAN and Net::FTP"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+ lib/Net/FTP.pm lib/Net/Netrc.pm lib/Net/Socket.pm
+ pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Please update Text::Wrap and Text::Tabs"
+ From: David Muir Sharnoff <muir@idiom.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612180659.WAA24957@idiom.com>
+ Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 22:59:59 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: lib/Text/Tabs.pm lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Title: "Add File::Compare"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612161844.SAA02152@pluto>
+ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 18:44:59 GMT
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/File/Compare.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Add Tie::RefHash"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612152358.SAA28665@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 18:58:08 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Tie/RefHash.pm pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Put "splain" in utils."
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Makefile.SH installperl utils/Makefile utils/splain.PL
+
+ Title: "Some h2ph fixes"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612131934.AA289845652@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 13 Dec 1996 11:34:12 -0800
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "xsubpp patch to add #line"
+ From: nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Msg-ID: <199612162153.VAA03590@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 21:53:56 GMT
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ Title: "Re: Proposed addition to File::Copy: move"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01ICZBN0LRC8001A1D@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 00:27:29 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/File/Copy.pm t/lib/filecopy.t
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.09 patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9612181037.AA10123@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 18 Dec 96 10:37:58 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199612111038.FAA24363@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:38:28 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update pods: perldelta -> perlnews, perli18n -> perllocale"
+ From: Tom Christiansen and Dominic Dunlop
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perli18n.pod
+ pod/perlnews.pod
+
+ Title: "perltoot.pod"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612091444.HAA09947@toy.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 07:44:10 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "Perlguts, version 25"
+ From: Jeff Okamoto <okamoto@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612061940.AA055461228@hpcc123.corp.hp.com>
+ Date: Fri, 6 Dec 96 11:40:27 PST
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "pod/perlipc.pod patch"
+ From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199612090910.CAA20906@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 9 Dec 96 3:10:02 CST
+ Files: pod/perlipc.pod
+
+ Title: "pod patches for English errors"
+ From: Steve Kelem <steve.kelem@xilinx.com>
+ Msg-ID: <24616.850167191@castor>
+ Date: Mon, 09 Dec 1996 13:33:11 -0800
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+ Title: "Misc doc updates"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199612150156.SAA12506@mox.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
+ Files: pod/*
+
+----------------
Version 5.003_11
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