the default encoding of your STDIN, STDOUT, and STDERR, and of
B<any subsequent file open>, is UTF-8.
+=item *
+
+If your filesystem supports returning UTF-8 encoded filenames,
+it is possible to make Perl to understand that the filenames
+returned by readdir() and glob() are in Unicode.
+
=back
=head2 Safe Signals
Use of C</c> in substitutions, even with C</g>, elicits
C<Use of /c modifier is meaningless in s///>.
-Use of C</g> with C<split> elicits <Use of /g modifier is meaningless
+Use of C</g> with C<split> elicits C<Use of /g modifier is meaningless
in split>.
=back
L<libnet> is a collection of perl5 modules related to network
programming, from Graham Barr. See L<Net::FTP>, L<Net::NNTP>,
-L<Net::Ping>, L<Net::POP3>, L<Net::SMTP>, and L<Net::Time>.
+L<Net::Ping> (not part of libnet, but related), L<Net::POP3>,
+L<Net::SMTP>, and L<Net::Time>.
Perl installation leaves libnet unconfigured, use F<libnetcfg> to configure.
=item *
-Net::Ping has been muchly enhanced. Multihoming is now supported.
-There is now "external" protocol which uses Net::Ping::External module
-which runs external ping(1) and parses the output. A version of
-Net::Ping::External is available in CPAN.
+Net::Ping has been muchly enhanced: multihoming is now supported,
+Win32 functionality is better, there is now time measuring
+functionality (optionally high-resolution using Time::HiRes),
+and there is now "external" protocol which uses Net::Ping::External
+module which runs your external ping utility and parses the output.
+A version of Net::Ping::External is available in CPAN.
+
+Note that some of the Net::Ping tests are disabled when running
+under the Perl distribution since one cannot assume one or more
+of the following: enabled echo port at localhost, full Internet
+connectivity, or sympathetic firewalls. You can set the environment
+variable PERL_TEST_Net_Ping to "1" (one) before running the Perl test
+suite to enable all the Net::Ping tests.
=item *
=item *
+C<pod2html> now produces XHTML 1.0.
+
+=item *
+
+C<pod2html> now understands POD written using different line endings
+(PC-like CRLF versus UNIX-like LF versus MacClassic-like CR).
+
+=item *
+
C<s2p> has been completely rewritten in Perl. (It is in fact a full
implementation of sed in Perl: you can use the sed functionality by
using the C<psed> utility.)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
..\ext/threads/t/end.t 6 4 66.67% 3-6
+=head2 XML::Parser not working
+
+Use XML::Parser 2.31 or later.
+
=head2 Localising a Tied Variable Leaks Memory
use Tie::Hash;
785 832-834 845
op/sprintf.t 224 3 1.34% 98 100 136
op/tr.t 97 5 5.15% 63 71-74
- uni/fold.t 767 8 1.04% 25-26 62 169 196
- 648 697-698
- 60 tests and 384 subtests skipped.
+ uni/fold.t 780 6 0.77% 61 169 196 661
+ 710-711
=head2 Localising Tied Arrays and Hashes Is Broken