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_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
+-------------------
+
+Any minute now... second public beta... no, really...
+
+ CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Fix for incorrect overloaded assignment"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199704112225.SAA03482@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 18:25:33 -0400 (EDT)
+ Files: gv.c
+
+ Title: "Fix C< $x=''; pos($x)=0; $x=~/\G$/ >"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pp_hot.c
+
+ Title: "Fix label on C<for(;;)> statement"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: perly.c perly.y
+
+ CORE PORTABILITY
+
+ Title: "update to 5.003_97b/hint/irix_6_2.sh"
+ From: Scott Henry <scotth@sgi.com>
+ Msg-ID: <yd8hghdjbk0.fsf@hoshi.engr.sgi.com>
+ Date: 11 Apr 1997 18:05:03 -0700
+ Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh
+
+ OTHER CORE CHANGES
+
+ Title: "Before 'BEGIN not safe', explain why"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: op.c
+
+ Title: "New error msg for low-key failure of C<require>"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp_ctl.c t/pragma/strict-subs
+ t/pragma/strict-vars
+
+ Title: "Put "dXSUB_SYS" last in declarations"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: win32/perllib.c
+
+ Title: "Minor type cleanup"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: proto.h toke.c
+
+ BUILD PROCESS
+
+ (no changes)
+
+ LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS
+
+ Title: "win32: perl5db patch"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704102142.RAA27396@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 17:42:13 -0400
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Enhancements to debugger, Term::ReadLine, Term::Cap"
+ From: Ilya Zakharevich
+ Msg-ID: <199704101948.PAA01841@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu>
+ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 15:48:07 -0400 (EDT)
+ Files: lib/Term/Cap.pm lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "MM_Unix patch for use under CVS"
+ From: Ulrich Pfeifer
+ Msg-ID: <yfmd8s1vhpn.fsf@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
+ Date: 11 Apr 1997 14:59:00 +0200
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm
+
+ Title: "Complex update (five patches)"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t
+
+ Title: "Fix undef warning in Math::BigInt"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/Math/BigInt.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ (no other changes)
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Add B<-o> option to a2p, for old awk; make new the default"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: x2p/a2p.h x2p/a2p.pod x2p/a2py.c x2p/walk.c
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "typo in lib/diagnostics.pm"
+ From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
+ Msg-ID: <199704111800.OAA27297@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
+ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 14:00:54 -0400
+ Files: lib/diagnostics.pm
+
+ Title: "Use B<> for options in Class::Struct pod"
+ From: Hugo van der Sanden <hv@iii.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <334D2E7B.67F0@iii.co.uk>
+ Date: Thu, 10 Apr 1997 19:16:27 +0100
+ Files: lib/Class/Struct.pm
+
+ Title: "Explain //g and \G issues"
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy
+ Msg-ID: <199704122048.QAA25060@aatma.engin.umich.edu>
+ Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 16:48:41 -0400
+ Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod
+
+ Title: "more (err, less) doubled words"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi
+ Msg-ID: <199704111931.WAA24460@alpha.hut.fi>
+ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:31:25 +0300 (EET DST)
+ Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm
+ ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm lib/CGI.pm lib/Exporter.pm
+ lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm
+ lib/vars.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldiag.pod
+ pod/perlfaq1.pod pod/perlfaq3.pod pod/perlfaq5.pod
+ pod/perlfaq7.pod pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlipc.pod
+
+ Title: "Freudian slip error in perlsub.pod"
+ From: barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett)
+ Msg-ID: <199704111755.NAA27200@grymoire.crd.ge.com>
+ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 13:55:07 -0400
+ Files: pod/perlsub.pod
+
+ Title: "Little patch for perl5.003_97c/pod/perlpod.pod"
+ From: rse@engelschall.com (Ralf S. Engelschall)
+ Msg-ID: <199704112048.WAA08733@en1.engelschall.com>
+ Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 22:48:37 +0200
+ Files: pod/perlpod.pod
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