----------------
+Version 5.003_95
+----------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "If C<perl -a>, do equivalent of C<use vars '@F'>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t
+ t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh"
+ From: Shigeya Suzuki <shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
+ Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "Another MachTen Patch"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970324152150.20610P-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (five patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> and
+ nick@ni-s.u-net.com (Nick Ing-Simmons)
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c
+ lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t
+ t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t
+ win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c
+ win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t
+
+ Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perlio.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Fix C<require> in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text"
+ From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <qumend4qq08.fsf@cyclone.stanford.edu>
+ Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w9DwX-0000Zr-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000
+ Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm
+
+ Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100
+ Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03020902af5d8e03c5ab@[194.51.248.84]>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100
+ Files: t/lib/complex.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970325135138.3374A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 13:52:53 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document possible problems with -Mdiagnostics after upgrade"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Mention perldelta in INSTALL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Describe pod format at top of INSTALL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document C</a *b/x> fix"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w9489-0005YT-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Missing item in perldiag"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w8jVZ-0005va-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlref.pod
+
+ Title: "Pod problems & fixes"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod
+ pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod
+ pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod
+ pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "DB_File documentation fix"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+ Title: "FAQ update"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_94
+----------------
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h
+ sv.c
+
+ Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: regcomp.c
+
+ Title: "Abort compilation at C<BEGIN{}> or C<use> after errors"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t
+
+ Title: "allow C<substr 'hello', -10>"
+ From: David Dyck <dcd@tc.fluke.com>
+ Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Regularize C<x % y>, esp. when y is negative"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Flush before C<flock(FOO, LOCK_UN)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c sv.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "Warn on C<while ($x = each %y) {}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<print $fh func()>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints"
+ From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Msg-ID: <w47mjakw5t.fsf@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "More MachTen hints"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970316133852.27997A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 13:40:35 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "HP/UX hint comments"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321153918.28770B-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 15:43:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu (Charles Bailey)
+ Msg-ID: <1997Mar11.220056.1873182@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t
+ utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms
+
+ Title: "vmsish.t and related patches"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (four patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu> and
+ Nick Ing-Simmons <nik@tiuk.ti.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm
+ lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness
+ t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t
+ t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t
+ t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t
+ t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t
+ t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t
+ t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c
+ win32/*
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h
+
+ Title: "Fix C<print> on tied default handle"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C<local($a, undef, $b) = (1,2,3)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500
+ Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c
+ x2p/util.c
+
+ Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it"
+ From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT
+ Files: installman installperl
+
+ Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
+ Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh
+ hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh
+ hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh
+ hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh
+ hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "New module: autouse.pm"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: "Math::Complex update"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <pzlo7ut03b.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500
+ Files: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/File/Path.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+ lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "In Exporter, don't C<require Carp> at file scope"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w815V-0005xs-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w75po-0003yh-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2sat1hg.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perlfaq.pod"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod
+ pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall
+
+ Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ"
+ From: gnat@frii.com
+ Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST)
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+ pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970321112326.1414A-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 11:25:32 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document that $. is not reset on implicit open"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Embedding success with _93 "
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Update site list"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
+ Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org>
+ Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch to document illegal characters"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970314090558.15346J-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Document trap with //o and closures"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Inline PI function"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310143125.22489V-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 14:33:20 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Illegal character in input"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970310151512.22489a-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:21:21 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Patch for docs Re: Lost backslash"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970319071438.24834G-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "XSUB's doc fix"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod
+
+ Title: "Document return from do FILE"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w70DK-0001yJ-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Document $^M in perlvar"
+ From: Robin Barker <rmb1@cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93"
+ From: Jim Meyering <meyering@asic.sc.ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <wpgendbzvhx.fsf@asic.sc.ti.com>
+ Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod
+ pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod
+
+ Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487)
+ Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+ Title: "clarify example in perlfunc"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_93
+----------------
+
+Me, last time:
+ "This release will be the public beta of 5.004,
+ or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger."
+Me, now:
+ "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead."
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500
+ Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c pp_hot.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl
+ vms/sockadapt.h
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS hint patch"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100
+ Files: hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C<shift>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C<BEGIN{die}>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c perl.c proto.h
+
+ Title: "perl -P path patch"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308120242.23766D-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:45:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: config_H config_h.SH perl.c plan9/config.plan9 t/comp/cpp.t
+ vms/config.vms win32/config.H
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix for Unisys UNIX and libperl.so"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.147328@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970306110532.11070A-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 11:15:47 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Use 'test -f', not 'test -x'"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@web.zk3.dec.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703080053.TAA13943@web.zk3.dec.com>
+ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script"
+ From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison)
+ Msg-ID: <memo.147326@cix.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0
+ Files: perl_exp.SH
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Carp with multiple arguments"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w3STZ-0007RW-00@taurus.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/Carp.pm
+
+ Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500
+ Files: lib/Exporter.pm
+
+ Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500
+ Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970308131806.23766F-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 13:21:22 -0500 (EST)
+
+ Title: "Fix more E-Mail addresses in pods"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm
+ lib/diagnostics.pm pod/buildtoc
+
+ Title: "Warn about '.' terminating E-Mail"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlform.pod
+
+ Title: "OS/2 doc update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703080537.AAA25157@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: README.os2
+
+ Title: "PODs corrections"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm
+ lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+ lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm
+ lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm
+ lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod
+ pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod
+ pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_92
+----------------
+
+This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't
+Larson T. Pettifogger.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C<eval ''> and nested subs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "HP-UX hint update"
+ From: Raphael Manfredi <Raphael_Manfredi@grenoble.hp.com>
+ Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100
+ Files: hints/hpux.sh
+
+ Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970305091611.3572E-100000@kelly.teleport.com>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ Title: "OS/2 patches"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "VMS patches"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h
+ t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms
+ vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth <h.b.furuseth@usit.uio.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c
+ pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c
+
+ Title: "Update copyright dates"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org>
+ Msg-ID: <pzg1yfuiza.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Newer ReadLine"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9"
+ From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Benchmark: using code refs"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000
+ Files: lib/Benchmark.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix quotewords"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000
+ Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+
+ Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w"
+ From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart)
+ Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com>
+ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST
+ Files: t/TEST
+
+ Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970303103047.24000A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:31:54 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Fix taint test for systems without csh"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Don't test locales if there is no setlocale()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Update pod2html"
+ From: wmiddlet@Adobe.COM (William Middleton)
+ Msg-ID: <199703030025.QAA08106@ducks>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/pod2html.PL
+
+ Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph"
+ From: (name lost)
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970302115355.23058D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 11:56:08 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't call FileHandle 'deprecated'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Improve sample module header"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@jhereg.perl.com>,
+ Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Clarify C<crypt> documentation"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970228131112.12357D-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:18:25 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Update list of CPAN sites"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlmod.pod
+
+ Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/*.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_91
+----------------
+
+This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>,
+ <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c
+ t/op/runlevel.t
+
+ Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c
+
+ Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hv.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _90"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c
+ vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c
+
+ Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t"
+ From: Michael H. Moran <mhm@austin.ibm.com>
+ Files: perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500
+ Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500
+ Files: op.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970225221634.2486A-100000@fractal.lafayette.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm"
+ From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: os2/diff.configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+
+ Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries"
+ From: "M.J.T. Guy" <mjtg@cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <E0w0Sqc-00046E-00@ursa.cus.cam.ac.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <k@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm
+
+ Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments"
+ From: Doug MacEachern <dougm@opengroup.org>
+ Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New test op/taint.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225101328.18288M-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:36:53 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/taint.t
+
+ Title: "Patch to t/op/rand.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970225181321.13796Q-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 18:19:34 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: t/op/rand.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Add --lax option to pod2man; use it in perldoc"
+ From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>, Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970228112136.24038G-100000@fractal.lafayette.
+ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 11:35:49 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Updates to perlfunc.pod"
+ From: Tom Phoenix (with help from M.J.T. Guy and Tom C.)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Move ENVIRONMENT from perl.pod to perlrun.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Describe PERL_DEBUG_MSTATS in perlrun.pod"
+ From: Nat <gnat@frii.com>
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix references to perlbug"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod
+ pod/perltoc.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_90
+----------------
+
+At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Ultrix hints"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500
+ Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh
+
+ Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl
+ ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100
+ Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t
+ t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t
+ t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t
+ t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Hints for DC/OSx"
+ From: Stephen Zander <srz@loopback>
+ Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800
+ Files: hints/dcosx.sh
+
+ Title: "Update VMS version"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c malloc.c regexec.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224160630.5700E-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Use $ccflags, $ldflags, $libs when determining $randbits"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "'installperl -v' doesn't do enough"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2sv722y.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
+
+ Title: "Pod::Text fixes"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500
+ Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm
+
+ Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "C<use vars> didn't work until 5.002"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/vars.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Files: t/op/rand.t
+
+ Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'"
+ From: Dominic Dunlop <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03020903af360f31aced@[194.51.248.65]>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100
+ Files: t/op/magic.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224170713.5700H-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:09:09 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Re: Hash key created by subroutine call? (fwd) "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod
+
+ Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997
+ Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman
+ utils/perlbug.PL
+
+ Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224155702.5700D-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:06:02 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in 'Tolkien quotation typo' fix"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@hut.fi>
+ Files: Changes
+
+ Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970223182745.15989A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:41:02 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_28
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #6. If this isn't good enough to go beta,
+I'll eat a floppy disk. (Okay, it's a chocolate floppy, but still....)
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Don't let C<sub foo;> undefine &foo"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: run.c
+
+ Title: "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doop.c op.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()"
+ From: neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld)
+ Files: hints/aix.sh
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _27"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod
+ pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile
+ vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl
+ vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes
+ os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h
+ os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness
+ t/op/magic.t
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix a typo"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Minor update to malloc.c"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perly.y
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Debugger patch"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm
+ os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm
+
+ Title: "prototype error in File::stat"
+ From: Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com
+ Msg-ID: <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT
+ Files: lib/File/stat.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Include 'study' in regexp.t"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/op/regexp.t
+
+ Title: "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ Title: "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t
+
+ Title: "Add test for grep() and wantarray"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000
+ Files: t/op/misc.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "INSTALL updates since _26"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970218155815.2014F-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 16:00:08 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Document "$$0" change"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't recommend impossible //o for C<$x =~ $y>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Correct doc that claimed that <FH> was never false"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Files: pod/perlvar.pod
+
+ Title: "Add pumpkin.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ Title: "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y""
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl
+ pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+ pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_27
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <hwwsbpeq2.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c
+
+ Title: "Allow C<setpgrp $$>"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzraigyshr.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix grep() with refs in array context"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C<use vmsish qw(status exit time)>"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c
+ perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs
+ vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+ win32/makedef.pl
+
+ Title: "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h
+
+ Title: "Digital UNIX hints"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)"
+ From: John Stoffel <jfs@fluent.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM>
+ Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh
+
+ Title: "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl
+ vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump when embedding"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ Title: "Re: Fragile signals"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pz7mkc1h0g.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500
+ Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c
+ perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c
+
+ Title: "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix carriage-return message"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "In <=>, test for equality first"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix eval "" in Configure"
+ From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4"
+ From: Tim Mooney <mooney@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoDak.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.OSF.3.95.970214135751.32654A-100000@dogbert.cc.ndsu.NoD
+ Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:59:02 -0600 (CST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Update os2/diff.configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: os2/diff.configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Remove Fatal.pm"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST lib/Fatal.pm pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod
+ pod/roffitall t/lib/fatal.t
+
+ Title: "Refresh MakeMaker to 5.40"
+ From: Andy Dougherty, Andreas Koenig, Tim Bunce
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN.pm to 1.21"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Remove non-portable locale tests"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: t/pragma/locale.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer <pfeifer@charly.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Msg-ID: <yfmzpxcimsa.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update To-Do list"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000
+ Files: Todo
+
+ Title: "Fix formatting in perldiag"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_26
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...."
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doop.c pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "VMS patches post _25"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c
+ vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl
+ vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c
+
+ Title: "Hints for BSDOS"
+ From: Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh
+
+ Title: "On C<sysopen(..., O_APPEND)>, call C<fopen(..., "a")>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Fix value of C<foreach>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Regexp optimizations"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: regcomp.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <hbu9uz1si.fsf@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix core dump on C<print "a", last> in eval"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Catch C<use integer; $x % 0>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Files: configure.gnu
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
+
+ Title: "Faster File::Compare"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100
+ Files: lib/File/Compare.pm
+
+ Title: "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100
+ Files: t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "perldoc -f <perlfunc>"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100
+ Files: utils/perldoc.PL
+
+ Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "return *FH pod patch"
+ From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen)
+ Msg-ID: <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com>
+ Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY"
+ From: Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perltie.pod
+
+
+----------------
+Version 5.003_25
+----------------
+
+This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping...
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Make $] read-only"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c
+ perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
+ pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "VMS patches for _24"
+ From: Charles Bailey <bailey@HMIVAX.HUMGEN.UPENN.EDU>
+ Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs
+ lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t
+ t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms
+ vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h
+
+ Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ Title: "amigaos.sh"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100
+ Files: hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix C<return @_> and associated stack bugs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Fix never-closing handle after C<select>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix /\G/g with patterns that match empty string"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix scalar leak in av_unshift"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: av.c
+
+ Title: "Ignore refs to lexicals when making refs to lexicals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Don't create AV, HV, IO when assigning glob"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Configure updates for intsize and ssizetype"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Files: Configure MANIFEST config_H config_h.SH handy.h
+
+ Title: "Ask about /usr/bin/perl iff STDIN and STDERR are terminals"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.19"
+ From: Andreas Koenig <a.koenig@mind.de>
+ Files: lib/Bundle/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199702030406.XAA23029@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 23:06:34 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "In Symbol::gensym, don't make glob fake by copying it"
+ From: John Hughes <john@AtlanTech.COM>
+ Files: lib/Symbol.pm
+
+ Title: "Make POSIX::is*() eight-bit-clean"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs
+
+ Title: "Make IO::Handle::gets() an alias of getline"
+ From: Gisle Aas <aas@bergen.sn.no>
+ Msg-ID: <199701301103.MAA11291@bergen.sn.no>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 12:03:15 +0100
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm lib/IO/Handle.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "More Amiga test patches"
+ From: "Norbert Pueschel" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724725@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 16:07:33 +0100
+ Files: README.amiga t/lib/safe2.t t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "c2ph.PL fix"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301349.IAA16724@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:49:19 -0500
+ Files: utils/c2ph.PL
+
+ Title: "Make pod2man a little laxer for perltoc.pod"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/pod2man.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Update to perl INSTALL file"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301338.IAA15878@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:38:23 -0500
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Update to perl.pod suggested"
+ From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden)
+ Msg-ID: <199701301345.IAA16514@cas.org>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 08:45:59 -0500
+ Files: pod/perl.pod
+
+ Title: "Document how extension pms go in $archlib"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod tweaks"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <20526.854659255@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 16:20:55 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "new (Feb 1) perlembed.pod"
+ From: Jon Orwant <orwant@media.mit.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <9702012334.AA15747@fahrenheit-451.media.mit.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 1 Feb 1997 18:34:59 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlembed.pod
+
+ Title: "Error lines must not have trialing periods"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+----------------
Version 5.003_24
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