----------------
+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
+
+ #20: "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
+----------------
+
+This release is the second candidate for a public beta test.
+It's, well, bunches better than _23.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "glob defaults to $_"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270809.DAA00934@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:09:13 -0500
+ Files: op.c opcode.pl pod/perlfunc.pod t/op/glob.t
+
+ Title: "Re: an overloading bug "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270007.TAA26525@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:07:45 -0500
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Don't warn on C<$\ = undef>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: mg.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Win32 port"
+ From: Gary Ng <71564.1743@compuserve.com>
+ Files: MANIFEST win32/*
+
+ Title: "Amiga files"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Msg-ID: <77724712@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 17:42:15 +0100
+ Files: MANIFEST README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh
+
+ Title: "New dec_osf hints"
+ From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
+ Msg-ID: <199701271233.OAA21548@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 14:33:01 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: hints/dec_osf.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Prevent premature death of @_ during leavesub"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ Title: "Deref old stash when re-blessing"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Don't abort when RCHECK and DEBUGGING"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9701272339.AA16537@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 23:39:48 +0000
+ Files: malloc.c
+
+ Title: "Fix overloading macro conflict with Digital 'cc -fast'"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701272216.AAA04557@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 00:16:49 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: perl.h
+
+ Title: "global.sym: typo?"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701261937.VAA07556@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 21:37:59 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: global.sym
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Put all extensions' modules in $archlib"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "Configure fixes: set $archlib, omit _NO_PROTO"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Make configure{,.gnu} ignore --cache-file option"
+ From: Norbert Pueschel <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ Files: configure configure.gnu
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Version checking in XS bootstrap is optional"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: XSUB.h
+
+ Title: "Update $VERSION of DynaLoader and POSIX"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/POSIX/POSIX.pm
+
+ Title: "Refresh Text::Wrap to 97.011701"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/Text/Wrap.pm
+
+ Title: "Fcntl.xs: F_[GS]ETOWN were in wrong case branch"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701251510.RAA05142@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:10:20 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.pm ext/Fcntl/Fcntl.xs
+
+ Title: "Fix $Is_VMS typo in Test::Harness"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm
+
+ Title: "Allow for really big keys in Tie::SubstrHash"
+ From: data-drift@so.uio.no
+ Msg-ID: <199701282014.VAA12645@selters.uio.no>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 21:14:34 +0100 (MET)
+ Files: lib/Tie/SubstrHash.pm
+
+ Title: "Avoid newRV_noinc() in IO, for compiling with old Perls"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: ext/IO/IO.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "New test op/closure.t"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>, Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Files: MANIFEST t/op/closure.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "xsubpp handing of void funcs breaks extensions using XST_m*()"
+ From: Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9701271659.AA15137@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 16:59:06 +0000
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "perldelta Fcntl enhancement"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701251505.RAA22159@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:05:34 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Updates to perldelta re: Fcntl, DB_File, Net::Ping"
+ From: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (Paul Marquess)
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Document restrictions on gv_fetchmethod() and perl_call_sv()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg <chip@atlantic.net>
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perldiag.pod: No comma allowed after %s"
+ From: Jarkko.Hietaniemi@cc.hut.fi
+ Msg-ID: <199701251541.RAA04120@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 17:41:53 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc.pod: localtime"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@cc.hut.fi>
+ Msg-ID: <199701251629.SAA08114@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 18:29:37 +0200 (EET)
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "perlfunc diff: gmtime"
+ From: Peter Haworth <pmh@edison.ioppublishing.com>
+ Msg-ID: <32EE1298.7B90@edison.ioppublishing.com>
+ Date: Tue, 28 Jan 1997 14:52:08 +0000
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+ Title: "Updates to guts"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270034.TAA13177@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 19:34:18 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: pod/perlguts.pod
+
+ Title: "perltoot fixes"
+ From: Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>
+ Msg-ID: <6807.854214205@jinete>
+ Date: Sat, 25 Jan 1997 09:43:25 -0800
+ Files: pod/perltoot.pod
+
+ Title: "5.003_23: small typo in perlsyn.pod"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <199701270824.DAA01169@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 03:24:25 -0500
+ Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
+
+
+----------------
Version 5.003_23
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