=item *
The Unicode Character Database coming with Perl has been upgraded
-to Unicode 3.1.1. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/.
+to Unicode 3.2.0. For more information, see http://www.unicode.org/ .
=item *
=item *
A new command-line option, C<-t> is available. It is the
-little brother of C<-T>: instead of dieing on taint violations,
+little brother of C<-T>: instead of dying on taint violations,
lexical warnings are given. B<This is only meant as a temporary
debugging aid while securing the code of old legacy applications.
This is not a substitute for -T.>
The command-line options -s and -F are now recognized on the shebang
(#!) line.
+=item *
+
+Use of the C</c> match modifier without an accompanying C</g> modifier
+elicits a new warning: C<Use of /c modifier is meaningless without /g>.
+
+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
+in split>.
+
=back
=head1 Modules and Pragmata
=item *
+The new bignum, bigint, and bigrat pragmas implement transparent
+bignum support (using the Math::BigInt, Math::BigFloat, and
+Math::BigRat backends), by Tels.
+
+=item *
+
C<Class::ISA> for reporting the search path for a class's ISA tree,
by Sean Burke, has been added. See L<Class::ISA>.
=item *
+Math::BigRat for big rational numbers, to accompany Math::BigInt and
+Math::BigFloat, from Tels.
+
+=item *
+
C<Memoize> can make your functions faster by trading space for time,
from Mark-Jason Dominus. See L<Memoize>.
=item *
+C<enc2xs> is a tool for people adding their own encodings to the
+Encode module.
+
+=item *
+
C<h2ph> now supports C trigraphs.
=item *
=item *
+C<piconv> is an implementation of the character conversion utility
+C<iconv>, demonstrating the new Encode module.
+
+=item *
+
C<pod2html> now allows specifying a cache directory.
=item *
=item *
-The documentation for the WinCE platform is called "CE", to avoid
-confusion with the perlwin32 documentation on 8.3-restricted filesystems.
+The documentation for the WinCE platform is called perlce (README.ce
+in the source code kit), to avoid confusion with the perlwin32
+documentation on 8.3-restricted filesystems.
=back
=item *
Hashes now use Bob Jenkins "One-at-a-Time" hashing key algorithm
-(http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html). This algorithm is
+( http://burtleburtle.net/bob/hash/doobs.html ). This algorithm is
reasonably fast while producing a much better spread of values than
the old hashing algorithm (originally by Chris Torek, later tweaked by
Ilya Zakharevich). Hash values output from the algorithm on a hash of
=item *
-AtheOS (http://www.atheos.cx/) is a new platform.
+AtheOS ( http://www.atheos.cx/ ) is a new platform.
=item *
probably going to be removed in Perl 5.10. In any case, suidperl
should only be used by security experts who know exactly what they are
doing and why they are using suidperl instead of some other solution
-such as sudo (see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/).
+such as sudo ( see http://www.courtesan.com/sudo/ ).
=head1 New Tests
works, but for example C<bin:perl -v> doesn't. The exact reason isn't
known but the current suspect is the F<ixemul> library.
+=head2 FreeBSD Failing locale Test 117 For ISO8859-15 Locales
+
+The ISO8859-15 locales may fail the locale test 117 in FreeBSD.
+This is caused by the characters \xFF (y with diaeresis) and \xBE
+(Y with diaeresis) not behaving correctly when being matched
+case-insensitively.
+
=head2 mod_perl 1.26 Doesn't Build With Threaded Perl
Use mod_perl 1.27 or higher.
=head2 Mac OS X
+Please remember to set your environment variable LC_ALL to "C"
+(setenv LC_ALL C) before running "make test" to avoid a lot of
+warnings about the broken locales of Mac OS X.
+
The following tests are known to fail:
Failed Test Stat Wstat Total Fail Failed List of Failed
=head2 UNICOS and UNICOS/mk
-The io/fs test #31 is failing because in UNICOS and UNICOS/mk
-truncate() cannot be used to grow the size of filehandles, only
-to reduce the size. The workaround is to truncate files instead
-of filehandles.
+The io/fs test #31 is failing because in UNICOS and UNICOS/mk the Perl
+truncate() cannot be used to grow the size of filehandles, only to
+reduce the size. The workaround is to truncate files instead of
+filehandles.
+
+=head2 UNICOS/mk
+
+=over 4
+
+=item *
+
+During Configure the test
+
+ Guessing which symbols your C compiler and preprocessor define...
+
+will probably fail with error messages like
+
+ CC-20 cc: ERROR File = try.c, Line = 3
+ The identifier "bad" is undefined.
+
+ bad switch yylook 79bad switch yylook 79bad switch yylook 79bad switch yylook 79#ifdef A29K
+ ^
+
+ CC-65 cc: ERROR File = try.c, Line = 3
+ A semicolon is expected at this point.
+
+This is caused by a bug in awk utility of UNICOS/mk. You can ignore
+the error, but it does cause a slight problem: you cannot fully
+benefit from the h2ph utility (see L<h2ph>) that can be used to
+convert C headers to Perl libraries, mainly used to be able to access
+from Perl the constants defined using C preprocessor, cpp. Because of
+the above error parts of the converted headers will be invisible.
+Luckily, these days the need for h2ph is rare.
+
+=item *
+
+If building Perl with the interpreter threads (ithreads), the
+getgrent(), getgrnam(), and getgrgid() functions cannot return the
+list of the group members due to a bug in the multithreaded support of
+UNICOS/mk. What this means that in list context the functions will
+return only three values, not four.
+
+=back
=head2 UTS
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles
recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl
-bug database at http://bugs.perl.org. There may also be
-information at http://www.perl.com/, the Perl Home Page.
+bug database at http://bugs.perl.org/ There may also be
+information at http://www.perl.com/ , the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the B<perlbug>
program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down
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