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