releases.)
----------------
- Cast and Crew
----------------
+ ---------------
+ CAST AND CREW
+ ---------------
-To save space, and to give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004
-what is is today, here are some of the more common names in the Changes
-file, and their current addresses (as of March 1997):
+To give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 what is is today,
+here are some of the more common names in the Changes file, and their
+current addresses (as of March 1997):
Gisle Aas <gisle@aas.no>
Kenneth Albanowski <kjahds@kjahds.com>
- Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Graham Barr <gbarr@ti.com>
Spider Boardman <spider@orb.nashua.nh.us>
Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin:
+ Charles Bailey <bailey@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
Andy Dougherty <doughera@lafcol.lafayette.edu>
- Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
+ Chip Salzenberg <chip@perl.com>
+
+
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97i
+-----------------
+
+This patch eliminates all known sources of buffer overflow! (And the
+crowd goes wild. (Yeah.)) Showstoppers only between here and _98.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Provide memset() if it's missing"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym perl.h proto.h util.c
+
+ Title: "Don't tell GCC that warn(), croak(), and die() are printf-lik
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: proto.h
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Misc. sv_vcatpvfn() fixes"
+ From: Hugo, Dale, Nick, Hallvard, Chip
+ Files: gv.c mg.c op.c perl.c pp.c pp_ctl.c sv.c toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Enforce order of sprintf() elements"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Guard against long numbers, <<LONG_DELIM, and <long glob>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: global.sym mg.c perl.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Guard against C<goto> to deeply nested label"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c
+
+ Title: "Guard against overflow in dup2() emulation"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: util.c
+
+ Title: "Win32: Guard against long function names"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: win32/win32sck.c
+
+ Title: "Make mess() always work, by using a non-arena SV"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg, from idea by Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Files: perl.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Fix scalar leak in pp_prtf()"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199704241706.NAA19140@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 13:06:21 -0400
+ Files: pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "When copying a format line, take only its string value"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: sv.c
+
+ Title: "Undo private patch"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix LEAKTEST numbers"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs handy.h os2/os2.c util.c vms/vms.c
+ win32/win32.c win32/win32sck.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Cope with a <db.h> that isn't related to DB"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199704241728.UAA09951@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 20:28:39 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Always NUL-terminate opsets"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
+
+ Title: "Don't core dump if my_inet_aton() get a NULL"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Socket/Socket.xs
+
+ Title: "Handle symlinks, high permission bits in File::Path"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/File/Path.pm
+
+ Title: "Math::{Complex,Trig} update"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704242221.BAA30363@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 01:21:44 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm lib/Math/Trig.pm pod/roffitall
+ t/lib/complex.t t/lib/trig.t
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Fix buffer overflow in a2p"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: x2p/a2py.c
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "FAQ udpate (24-apr-97)"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199704242247.QAA07010@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 16:47:23 -0600 (MDT)
+ Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
+
+ Title: "Document new {,s}printf() behavior"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97h
+-----------------
+
+This patch eliminates almost all possible sources of buffer overflow;
+in particular, there are no more sprintf() bugs. (!!) This patch
+also has a few other fixes. With these changes in place, I can sleep
+at night. (Because I've stopped hacking. :-))
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Support PRINTF for tied handles"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199704202226.SAA08032@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 18:26:13 -0400
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix bitwise shifts and pack('w') on Crays"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (two patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm win32/config.w32
+ win32/makedef.pl
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Mondo Cool patch for buffer safety and convenience"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: XSUB.h doop.c dump.c ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
+ ext/DynaLoader/dl_hpux.xs ext/DynaLoader/dl_next.xs
+ ext/DynaLoader/dlutils.c ext/ODBM_File/ODBM_File.xs
+ global.sym gv.c interp.sym mg.c op.c perl.c perl.h
+ pod/perlguts.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c proto.h
+ regcomp.c regexec.c sv.c toke.c util.c
+
+ Title: "Problems with glob"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <1997Apr20.024432.1941365@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu>
+ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 02:44:32 -0400 (EDT)
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Fix scalar leak in closures"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c scope.c
+
+ Title: "Refine error messages re: anon subs' prototypes"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "Outermost scope is void, not scalar"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_ctl.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix up Linux hints for tcsh, and Configure patch"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970422101051.2506C-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:02:27 -0400 (EDT)
+ Files: Configure hints/linux.sh
+
+ Title: "There is no standard answer to 'Use suidperl?'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: hints/bsdos.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/linux.sh
+ hints/machten_2.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Math::Complex update"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Croak on C<use autouse> without module name"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/autouse.pm
+
+ Title: "Silence warnings on simple C<use ops>"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pzybafum6k.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 19 Apr 1997 10:22:43 -0400
+ Files: ext/Opcode/ops.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "Don't put leading newline on numeric strings"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Msg-ID: <199704230847.KAA22752@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 10:47:00 +0200
+ Files: t/pragma/constant.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "FAQ udpate (23-apr-97)"
+ From: Nathan Torkington <gnat@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199704231822.MAA05074@prometheus.frii.com>
+ Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 12:22:55 -0600 (MDT)
+ Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
+
+ Title: "Two doublewords less"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199704201938.WAA07722@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Sun, 20 Apr 1997 22:38:13 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: pod/perlrun.pod vms/perlvms.pod
+
+
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97g
+-----------------
+
+This one has two security bug fixes for buffer overflows. Perl has
+not yet been searched to see if more fixes are needed.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Improve sysseek(), remove systell(), fix Opcode"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
+ ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs global.sym keywords.pl opcode.pl
+ pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+ proto.h t/op/sysio.t toke.c
+
+ Title: "Fix (and test) spaces in {,un}pack()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c t/op/pack.t
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Irix update"
+ From: Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <yd8d8rsi0ln.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com>
+ Date: 18 Apr 1997 12:37:24 -0700
+ Files: MANIFEST hints/irix_6.sh hints/irix_6_0.sh hints/irix_6_1.sh
+
+ Title: "ExtUtils/Miniperl.pm not built on Win32"
+ From: Nick Ing-Simmons
+ Msg-ID: <199704181742.SAA08407@ni-s.u-net.com>
+ Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:42:32 +0100
+ Files: win32/Makefile
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "SECURITY FIX: 'Identifier too long'"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod toke.c
+
+ Title: "SECURITY FIX: Buffer overflow in gv_fetchfile()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "Remove pp_method() inefficiency from last patch"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Fix unnecessary re-linking"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix tcsh hack in Configure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Minor, optional patch to Makefile.SH"
+ From: "Randy J. Ray" <rjray@uswest.com>
+ Msg-ID: <rjray-9703180132.AA00374040@snakepit.ecte.uswc.uswest.com>
+ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 19:32:17 -0600
+ Files: Makefile.SH
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Patch to Getopt::Long"
+ From: Johan Vromans <jvromans@squirrel.nl>
+ Msg-ID: <m0wIKCO-00081IC@phoenix.squirrel.nl>
+ Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 22:24 MET DST
+ Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm
+
+ Title: "Fix NAME in SDBM_File build"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Make h2ph generate constant subs"
+ From: Roderick Schertler
+ Msg-ID: <pz2088w5ot.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 18 Apr 1997 14:23:46 -0400
+ Files: utils/h2ph.PL
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Document {,un}pack changes"
+ From: Paul Marquess
+ Msg-ID: <9704181249.AA11733@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk>
+ Date: Fri, 18 Apr 97 13:49:39 BST
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+
+
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97f
+-----------------
+
+This is it before _98. No more last-minute features. Really, I mean
+it this time. No kidding.
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "New operator systell()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm keywords.pl opcode.pl
+ pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c
+ t/op/sysio.t toke.c
+
+ Title: "Allow constant sub to be optimized when called with parens"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: toke.c
+
+ Title: "Make {,un}pack fail on invalid pack types"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Fix bitwise ops and {,un}pack() on Cray CPUs"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ Title: "VMS update"
+ From: Charles Bailey
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/File/Path.pm lib/FindBin.pm vms/perly_c.vms
+ vms/vms.c vms/writemain.pl
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (three patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
+ Files: lib/Cwd.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm
+ lib/File/Basename.pm win32/Makefile win32/makedef.pl
+ win32/perllib.c win32/win32.c win32/win32iop.h
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix error messages on method lookup failure"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix use of var before init in util.c"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704162342.TAA20773@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 19:42:41 -0400
+ Files: util.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Linux hints: Allow build w/o suidperl, prefer tcsh to csh"
+ From: Michael De La Rue <mikedlr@tardis.ed.ac.uk>
+ Files: Configure hints/linux.sh
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Fix bug in Opcode when (maxo & 15) > 8"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm
+ ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs
+
+ Title: "CGI.pm broke again"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Msg-ID: <199704171136.NAA24859@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 13:36:28 +0200
+ Files: lib/CGI.pm
+
+ Title: "Revise quotewords()"
+ From: Shishir Gundavaram <shishir@ruby.ora.com>
+ Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Doc updates: INSTALL-1.13, pumpkin.pod-1.9"
+ From: Andy Dougherty
+ Files: INSTALL Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ Title: "Document size restrictions for packed integers"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
+
+
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97e
+-----------------
+
+Y'know, I've heard of this "beta" thing, but it's been so long since
+I've seen one, I'm not sure it really exists...
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "New operator: sysseek()"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c ext/Opcode/Makefile.PL ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm global.sym
+ keywords.pl opcode.pl pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod
+ pp_sys.c t/op/sysio.t toke.c
+
+ Title: "Allow recursive substitution again"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod pp_hot.c
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "Use size_t for socket size parameters of GNU libc"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: doio.c pp_sys.c
+
+ Title: "Fix STMT_{START,END} under g++"
+ From: Steven Parkes <parkes@sierravista.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199704141935.MAA11240@monterey.sierravista.com>
+ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 12:35:34 -0700
+ Files: perl.h
+
+ Title: "Win32 update (four patches)"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons
+ Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h ext/SDBM_File/Makefile.PL
+ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/Makefile.PL ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.c
+ ext/SDBM_File/sdbm/sdbm.h lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm perl.c
+ utils/perlbug.PL utils/perldoc.PL win32/Makefile win32/TEST
+ win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/config_h.PL
+ win32/config_sh.PL win32/perllib.c win32/runperl.c
+ win32/win32.c win32/win32io.c win32/win32sck.c
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "New API function: perl_eval_pv()"
+ From: Doug MacEachern
+ Msg-ID: <199704142113.RAA06823@postman.osf.org>
+ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:13:41 -0400
+ Files: perl.c pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlembed.pod
+ pod/perlguts.pod proto.h
+
+ Title: "Fix C< s//whatever/ >, which reuses old pattern"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c regexec.c
+
+ Title: "Return a value from PerlIO_{,un}getc"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199704131228.OAA05695@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 14:28:14 +0200 (MET DST)
+ Files: perlio.c
+
+ Title: "Fix for environment leak"
+ From: skimo@breughel.ufsia.ac.be (Sven Verdoolaege)
+ Msg-ID: <19970415103246.NN46698@breughel.ufsia.ac.be>
+ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:32:46 +0200
+ Files: util.c
+
+ Title: "Fix comments in seed()"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Msg-ID: <199704141758.TAA06895@bombur2.uio.no>
+ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 19:58:38 +0200 (MET DST)
+ Files: pp.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ Title: "Put extensions' autoload files in $archlib"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: installperl
+
+ Title: "Use '-fPIC' for debugging compiles under Solaris with gcc"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Files: Configure
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "Refresh CGI to 2.34"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: eg/cgi/customize.cgi eg/cgi/tryit.cgi lib/CGI.pm
+ lib/CGI/Apache.pm
+
+ Title: "Debugger update"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199704142115.RAA09923@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 17:15:27 -0400 (EDT)
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "diagnostics: $/ gotcha"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Msg-ID: <199704151814.UAA03404@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 20:14:01 +0200
+ Files: lib/diagnostics.pm
+
+ Title: "Update File::Path"
+ From: Andreas Koenig
+ Msg-ID: <199704151401.QAA02556@anna.in-berlin.de>
+ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 16:01:07 +0200
+ Files: lib/File/Path.pm t/lib/filepath.t
+
+ Title: "User::pwent.pm: g{,e}cos"
+ From: Tom Christiansen
+ Msg-ID: <199704130135.TAA23274@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 19:35:54 -0600
+ Files: lib/User/pwent.pm
+
+ Title: "Sys::Syslog: hyphens in hostnames"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199704151421.RAA19693@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 17:21:53 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm
+
+ Title: "Clean up format of dlopen() debug info"
+ From: Hallvard B Furuseth
+ Files: ext/DynaLoader/dl_dlopen.xs
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "xsubpp incorrectly handles 'class::newthing()'"
+ From: "John Q. Linux" <jql@jql.accessone.com>
+ Msg-ID: <199704122201.PAA01780@jql.accessone.com>
+ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 15:01:33 -0700
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Add CGI to perldelta.pod and improve its description in MANIFEST"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: MANIFEST pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Describe probs with majordomo 1.94.1"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod
+
+ Title: "Fix description of /\G/g"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
+
+ Title: "Mention '...' operator in precedence table"
+ From: Tom Christiansen
+ Msg-ID: <199704131724.LAA23120@jhereg.perl.com>
+ Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:24:16 -0600
+ Files: pod/perlop.pod
--------------------
- Version 5.003_97d
--------------------
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97d
+-----------------
Any minute now... second public beta... no, really...
Files: pod/perlpod.pod
--------------------
- Version 5.003_97c
--------------------
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97c
+-----------------
That second public beta will be Real Soon Now...
Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm
--------------------
- Version 5.003_97b
--------------------
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97b
+-----------------
Working on the second public beta...
Files: pod/perltrap.pod
--------------------
- Version 5.003_97a
--------------------
+-----------------
+Version 5.003_97a
+-----------------
This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm
planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta.
pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
-------------------
- Version 5.003_97
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_97
+----------------
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm
-------------------
- Version 5.003_96
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_96
+----------------
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Files: pod/*.pod
-------------------
- Version 5.003_95
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_95
+----------------
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod
-------------------
- Version 5.003_94
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_94
+----------------
CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm
-------------------
- Version 5.003_93
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_93
+----------------
Me, last time:
"This release will be the public beta of 5.004,
pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod
-------------------
- Version 5.003_92
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_92
+----------------
This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't
Larson T. Pettifogger.
Files: pod/*.pod
-------------------
- Version 5.003_91
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_91
+----------------
This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004.
pod/perltoc.pod
-------------------
- Version 5.003_90
-------------------
+----------------
+Version 5.003_90
+----------------
At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004.
Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod
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- Version 5.003_28
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+----------------
+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....)
pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod
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- Version 5.003_27
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_27
+----------------
This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta.
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
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- Version 5.003_26
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_26
+----------------
This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...."
Files: pod/perltie.pod
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- Version 5.003_25
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_25
+----------------
This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping...
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
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- Version 5.003_24
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_24
+----------------
This release is the second candidate for a public beta test.
It's, well, bunches better than _23.
Files: pod/perlsyn.pod
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- Version 5.003_23
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_23
+----------------
This release is our first candidate for a public beta test.
Files: pod/perllocale.pod
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- Version 5.003_22
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_22
+----------------
This release is primarily made up of bug fixes, the foremost among
which repairs a showstopper memory corruption bug in formats.
Files: configpm
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- Version 5.003_21
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_21
+----------------
This release includes several important bug fixes, and a couple of
minor but valuable language tweaks. Please read on for a list of the
Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod
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- Version 5.003_20
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_20
+----------------
The only language change in this release is the recension of support
for named closures: Now, no subroutine declared "sub foo {}" can be
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perltoc.pod
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- Version 5.003_19
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_19
+----------------
Lots of internal cleanup in this patch, especially plugged memory
leaks when embedded Perl interpreters shut down and restart. The
vms/descrip.mms
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- Version 5.003_18
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_18
+----------------
Yet further down the road to 5.004....
Files: pod/perldiag.pod
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- Version 5.003_17
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_17
+----------------
The rate of patches is slowing down.... I see 5.004 at the end of the
tunnel! (Hey, what's that whistle?)
Files: pod/perllocale.pod
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- Version 5.003_16
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_16
+----------------
This patch is all bug fixes, library updates, and documentation
updates. We'll get to 5.004 RSN, I promise. :-)
Files: pod/perllocale.pod
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- Version 5.003_15
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_15
+----------------
As soon as I posted 5.003_14, I found a fatal error in it. :-(
changes that were supposed to be improvements, but weren't.
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- Version 5.003_14
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_14
+----------------
We seem to have achieved "release candidate" status.
Files: lib/Class/Template.pm lib/Time/tm.pm
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- Version 5.003_13
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_13
+----------------
The watchword here is "synchronization." There were a couple of
show-stopper bugs in 5.003_12, so I'm issuing this patch to bring
Files: pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL
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- Version 5.003_12
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_12
+----------------
This patch is huge. A multitude of bug fixes, new modules (especially
CPAN and Net::FTP), a couple of new Configure variables, updated
Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 18:56:33 -0700
Files: pod/*
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- Version 5.003_11
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_11
+----------------
This patch is (still) closing in on 5.004. Nothing dramatic, lots of
value.
Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs
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- Version 5.003_10
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_10
+----------------
This patch is closing in on 5.004. It contains lots of small and
valuable changes, but nothing dramatic.
Files: pod/perlfunc.pod
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- Version 5.003_09
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_09
+----------------
This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
many people, including some serious improvement in lexical variable
Files: x2p/util.c
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- Version 5.003_08
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_08
+----------------
This patch was a compendium of various fixes and enhancements from
many people. Here are some of the more significant changes.
Files: x2p/a2p.c x2p/a2p.y
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- Version 5.003_07
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_07
+----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs or include little things I missed
in 5.003_06. 5.003_07 is intended to be stable enough to merit serious
pathname of the file being extracted.
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- Version 5.003_06
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_06
+----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs, improve the documentation,
and work towards restoring binary compatibility with 5.003.
I then embedded the pod into the s2p script.
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- Version 5.003_05
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_05
+----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the remaining issues from in 5.003_04. The details are described below.
VMS 5.003_05 Update.
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- Version 5.003_04
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_04
+----------------
This patch was primarily to fix bugs and to clean up some of
the changes made in 5.003_03. The details are described below.
doesn't support the -x option.)
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- Version 5.003_03
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_03
+----------------
Most of the changes in 5.003_03 are to make the build and installation
process more robust. The details are described below. A very brief
Use Configure's FILE_filbuf macro instead of a raw _filbuf.
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- Version 5.003_02
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_02
+----------------
o Visible Changes to Core Functionality
- Redefining constant subs, or changing sub's prototype now give warnings.
- Typo patch for VMS.
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- Version 5.003_01
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+----------------
+Version 5.003_01
+----------------
Version 5.003_01 contains bugfixes and additions accumulated since
version 5.002_01, since the patch to version 5.003 was deliberately
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