=back
+=head2 Restricted Hashes
+
+A restricted hash is restricted to a certain set of keys, no keys
+outside the set can be added. Also individual keys can be restricted
+so that the key cannot be deleted and the value cannot be changed.
+No new syntax is involved: the Hash::Util module is the interface.
+
=head2 Safe Signals
Perl used to be fragile in that signals arriving at inopportune moments
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
=item *
-C<Encode>, by Nick Ing-Simmons and Dan Kogai, provides a mechanism to
-translate between different character encodings. Support for Unicode,
-ISO-8859-1, and ASCII are compiled in to the module. Several other
-encodings (like the rest of the ISO-8859, CP*/Win*, Mac, KOI8-R, three
-variants EBCDIC, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean encodings) are included
-and can be loaded at runtime. (For space considerations, the largest
-Chinese encodings have been separated into their own CPAN module,
-Encode::HanExtra, which Encode will use if available). See L<Encode>.
+C<Encode>, orginally by Nick Ing-Simmons and now maintained by Dan
+Kogai, provides a mechanism to translate between different character
+encodings. Support for Unicode, ISO-8859-1, and ASCII are compiled in
+to the module. Several other encodings (like the rest of the
+ISO-8859, CP*/Win*, Mac, KOI8-R, three variants EBCDIC, Chinese,
+Japanese, and Korean encodings) are included and can be loaded at
+runtime. (For space considerations, the largest Chinese encodings
+have been separated into their own CPAN module, Encode::HanExtra,
+which Encode will use if available). See L<Encode>.
Any encoding supported by Encode module is also available to the
":encoding()" layer if PerlIO is used.
=item *
C<Hash::Util> is the interface to the new I<restricted hashes>
-feature. A restricted hash is restricted to a certain set of keys,
-no keys outside the set can be added. Also individual keys can be
-restricted so that the key cannot be deleted and the value cannot be
-changed. (Implemented by Jeffrey Friedl, Nick Ing-Simmons, and
+feature. (Implemented by Jeffrey Friedl, Nick Ing-Simmons, and
Michael Schwern.)
=item *
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 *
-C<Locale::Constants>, C<Locale::Country>, C<Locale::Currency>, and
-C<Locale::Language>, from Neil Bowers, have been added. They provide the
-codes for various locale standards, such as "fr" for France, "usd" for
-US Dollar, and "jp" for Japanese.
+C<Locale::Constants>, C<Locale::Country>, C<Locale::Currency>
+C<Locale::Language>, and L<Locale::Script>, from Neil Bowers, have
+been added. They provide the codes for various locale standards, such
+as "fr" for France, "usd" for US Dollar, and "ja" for Japanese.
use Locale::Country;
=item *
-Math::BigRat for big rational numbers, to accompany Math::BigInt and
+C<Math::BigRat> for big rational numbers, to accompany Math::BigInt and
Math::BigFloat, from Tels.
=item *
=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.)
=item *
-The character tables have been updated to Unicode 3.1.1.
+The character tables have been updated to Unicode 3.2.0.
=item *
better than it was in 5.6.0, it's just that so many new modules and
tests have been added.
- Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- ../ext/Data/Dumper/t/dumper.t 321 2 0.62% 311 314
+ Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
+ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ ../ext/Data/Dumper/t/dumper.t 339 8 2.36% 311 314 325 327
+ 331 333 337 339
../ext/IO/lib/IO/t/io_unix.t 5 4 80.00% 2-5
+ ../ext/Storable/t/utf8hash.t 10 2560 148 10 6.76% 1 5 72 76 143-148
../lib/utf8.t 94 13 13.83% 27 30-31 43 46 73
76 79 82 85 88 91
94
- ../lib/Benchmark.t 1 256 159 1 0.63% 75
- ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t 27 19 70.37% 5-23
+ ../lib/ExtUtils/t/Constant.t 121 30976 48 48 100.00% 1-48
../lib/ExtUtils/t/Embed.t 9 9 100.00% 1-9
- op/pat.t 864 9 1.04% 242-243 665 776
+ op/pat.t 900 9 1.00% 242-243 665 776
785 832-834 845
op/sprintf.t 224 3 1.34% 98 100 136
op/tr.t 97 5 5.15% 63 71-74
+ run/fresh_perl.t 94 3 3.19% 92-94
uni/fold.t 780 6 0.77% 61 169 196 661
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