----------------
+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
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