X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=841988655503f1482f416c708327f731db30a0a9;hb=daff0e373f3630eaa9dbded0adcc04185f454487;hp=7a8b96b8567652e0a3d3919f56a66bdeff9a60dc;hpb=e4a57b87c8cc32c980ff39b209f2f28d7a77f013;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index 7a8b96b..8419886 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes -between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not a complete list -of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information, +between versions and sub-versions of Perl, not necessarily a complete +list of each modification. If you'd like more detailed information, please consult the comments in the patches on which the relevant release of Perl is based. (Patches can be found on any CPAN site, in the .../src/5.0 directory for full version releases, @@ -8,9 +8,9946 @@ or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version releases.) ----------------- -Version 5.003_01 ----------------- +--------------- + Cast and Crew +--------------- + +To save space, and to give due honor to those who have made Perl 5.004 +what is is today, here are some of the more common names in the Changes +file, and their current addresses (as of March 1997): + + Gisle Aas + Kenneth Albanowski + Charles Bailey + Graham Barr + Spider Boardman + Tim Bunce + Tom Christiansen + Hallvard B Furuseth + M. J. T. Guy + Gurusamy Sarathy + Jarkko Hietaniemi + Nick Ing-Simmons + Andreas Koenig + Doug MacEachern + Paul Marquess + Jeff Okamoto + Ulrich Pfeifer + Tom Phoenix + Norbert Pueschel + Roderick Schertler + Ilya Zakharevich + +And the Keepers of the Patch Pumpkin: + + Andy Dougherty + Chip Salzenberg + + +------------------- + Version 5.003_97a +------------------- + +This release gets a letter instead of a full subversion because I'm +planning on making 5.003_98 the second public beta. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix AUTOLOAD, or kill me" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pp.c t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Add support for Cygwin32 (GNU-Win32) -- very low impact" + From: John Cerney + Msg-ID: <199704030821.JAA08762@pluto.tiuk.ti.com> + Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:21:17 +0100 + Files: MANIFEST README.cygwin32 cygwin32/cw32imp.h cygwin32/gcc2 + cygwin32/ld2 cygwin32/perlgcc cygwin32/perlld + ext/DynaLoader/dl_cygwin32.xs hints/cygwin32.sh perl.h + pp_sys.c + + Title: "Win32 update (six patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 dosish.h t/io/fs.t t/io/tell.t + t/lib/io_tell.t t/op/magic.t t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t + t/op/stat.t t/op/taint.t win32/Makefile win32/VC-2.0/pod.mak + win32/makedef.pl win32/pod.mak win32/win32.c win32/win32.h + win32/win32io.c win32/win32io.h win32/win32iop.h + + Title: "AmigaOS update" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724828@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 16:16:51 +0200 + Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix const-sub-related panic on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Fix warning for useless C<1..2>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Minor cleanups" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704040056.TAA22253@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 19:56:57 -0500 + Files: mg.c mg.h perl.c + + Title: "Eliminate unreliable warning with %SIG and strict refs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix impossible test in vivification" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "runlevel is I32, not int" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2848.860109823@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 18:23:43 -0500 + Files: pp_ctl.c util.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Re: shared lib compilation problem with miniperl5.003_97" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: " + From: Chip Salzenberg and Tim Bunce + Files: lib/AutoLoader.pm + + Title: "CPAN & TRL-Gnu" + From: Achim Bohnet + Msg-ID: <9704040809.AA26143@o09.rosat.mpe-garching.mpg.de> + Date: Fri, 04 Apr 1997 10:09:03 +0200 + Files: lib/CPAN.pm + + Title: "Limit @ISA to actual DBM in AnyDBM" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/AnyDBM_File.pm + + Title: "Don't use $4 when it might be undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/bigfloat.pl + + TESTS + + Title: "Make *dbm tests work with Win32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/lib/anydbm.t t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t + t/lib/sdbm.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update INSTALL" + From: Andy Dougherty + Files: INSTALL + + Title: "Pod style" + From: Nathan Torkington + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldata.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlform.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlipc.pod pod/perllocale.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlstyle.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_97 +------------------ + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Reenable but deprecate inherited AUTOLOAD for plain funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod t/op/method.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't use setjmp() and longjmp() in complex exprs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp_ctl.c scope.h + + Title: "Improve definition of Sock_size_t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't use a completely empty macro parameter" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.h + + Title: "Win32 update" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199704020608.BAA29538@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 01:08:09 -0500 + Files: win32/VC-2.0/modules.mak win32/VC-2.0/perl.mak win32/VC- + 2.0/perldll.mak win32/perl.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Introduce and use gv_fetchmethod_autoload()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h universal.c + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of literal strings" + From: ilya@math.ohio-state.edu (Ilya Zakharevich) + Msg-ID: <1997Apr1.113438.1913905@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 11:34:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Remove target before link() of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Refresh CPAN to 1.24" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm + + Title: "Refresh ExtUtils::Manifest to 1.33" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm + + Title: "Update $VERSION of ExtUtils::Embed to reflect reality" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix POSIX::raise()" + From: "Jens T. Berger Thielemann" + Msg-ID: + Msg-ID: <11173.9704011111@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 97 12:11:43 BST + Files: lib/File/Basename.pm t/lib/basename.t + + Title: "Eliminate warning in CGI.pm" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm + + Title: "Tweaks to constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:10:14 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/constant.pm + + Title: "Document eval vs. sub in Benchmark" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199704012231.XAA00225@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 01 Apr 1997 23:31:55 +0100 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve heuristics for pod2man titles" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 01 Apr 1997 23:41:55 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Clean up some poddities, and make C work again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/Makefile pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfaq8.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Fix MM doc's use of "SUPER::"" + From: avera@hal.com (Jim Avera) + Msg-ID: <9704012235.AA07841@membrane.hal.com> + Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 14:35:26 -0800 (PST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Eliminate pod warnings in libs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/CGI.pm lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_96 +------------------ + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Support $ENV{PERL5OPT}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Implement void context, in which C is undef" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h doop.c dump.c global.sym gv.c op.c op.h perl.c + pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlsub.pod pp.c pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + pp_sys.c proto.h + + Title: "Don't look up &AUTOLOAD in @ISA when calling plain function" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym gv.c lib/Text/ParseWords.pm pod/perldelta.pod + pp_hot.c proto.h t/op/method.t + + Title: "Allow closures to be constant subroutines" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make C mean C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix lexical suicide from C in sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make "Unrecog. char." fatal, and update its doc" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Die on patterns that will match empty string forever" + From: Stephen Potter + Msg-ID: <199703282138.PAA28311@psa.pencom.com> + Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 15:38:30 -0600 + Files: regcomp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "safefree() mismatch" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <21338.859653381@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 11:36:21 -0500 + Files: util.c + + Title: "FreeBSD update" + From: Slaven Rezic + Msg-ID: <199703311417.QAA04162@cabulja.herceg.de> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 16:17:42 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: hints/freebsd.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (seven patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: EXTERN.h MANIFEST win32/Makefile win32/perl.mak + win32/perl.rc win32/perldll.mak win32/makedef.pl + win32/modules.mak win32/win32io.c win32/bin/pl2bat.bat + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Report PERL* environment variables in -V and perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "Typo in perl.c: Printing NO_EMBED for perl -V" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703301922.VAA13509@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 21:22:11 +0200 + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Don't let C<$var = $var> untaint $var" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c pp_sys.c sv.h t/op/taint.t + + Title: "Fix autoviv bug in C{KEY}>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Re: 5.004's new srand() default seed" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703302219.AAA20998@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 00:19:13 +0200 (MET DST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Re: embedded perl and top_env problem " + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703280031.TAA05711@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 19:31:42 -0500 + Files: gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c scope.h util.c + + Title: "Define and use new macro: boolSV()" + From: Tim Bunce + Files: gv.c lib/ExtUtils/typemap os2/os2.c pp.c pp_hot.c pp_sys.c + sv.c sv.h universal.c vms/vms.c + + Title: "Re: strict @F" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703252110.WAA16038@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 22:10:33 +0100 (MET) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Try harder to identify errors at EOF" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Minor string change in toke.c: 'bareword'" + From: lvirden@cas.org + Msg-ID: <1997Mar27.130247.1911552@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:02:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on \r in program text" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Make Sock_size_t typedef work right" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Eliminate unused dummy variable" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703270123.UAA25454@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:23:14 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm unixish.h writemain.SH + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Allow for coexistence of various versions of perldiag.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl lib/diagnostics.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module constant.pm" + From: Tom Phoenix + Files: MANIFEST lib/constant.pm op.c pp.c t/pragma/constant.t + + Title: "Remove chat2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST lib/chat2.inter lib/chat2.pl + + Title: "Include CGI.pm 2.32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST eg/cgi/* lib/CGI.pm lib/CGI/Apache.pm + lib/CGI/Carp.pm lib/CGI/Fast.pm lib/CGI/Push.pm + lib/CGI/Switch.pm + + Title: "Fix C in debugger" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703312355.SAA01068@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 18:55:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Re: Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703261829.TAA17015@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 19:29:14 +0100 (MET) + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Re: $whoami calculation in Sys::Syslog.pm should not be greedy" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 29 Mar 1997 11:33:24 -0500 + Files: lib/Sys/Syslog.pm + + Title: "C doesn't always restore" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703291906.OAA07232@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 14:06:37 -0500 + Files: lib/SelectSaver.pm + + Title: "Patch for Benchmark.pm" + From: Hugo van der Sanden w/Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <199703291504.PAA01596@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Sat, 29 Mar 1997 15:04:32 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Tiny doc fix for AutoSplit.pm" + From: "Randy J. Ray" + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 14:17:38 -0700 + Files: lib/AutoSplit.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Tom C's Pod::Html and html tools, as of 30 March 97" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST installhtml lib/Pod/Html.pm pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Fix path bugs in installhtml" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <3180.9703270906@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 27 Mar 97 09:06:14 GMT + Files: installhtml + + Title: "Make perlbug say that it's only for core Perl bugs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: utils/perlbug.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.11" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:05:39 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perl.pod + + Title: "Document autouse and constant; update diagnostics" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Suggest to upgraders that they try '-w' again" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703251901.UAA15982@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 20:01:26 +0100 (MET) + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Improve and update documentation of constant subs" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:05:54 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Improve documentation of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "perlfunc.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703262159.WAA17531@furubotn.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 22:59:23 +0100 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Use 'while (defined($x = <>)) {}', per " + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: configpm lib/Term/Cap.pm perlsh pod/perlipc.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlsub.pod pod/perlsyn.pod pod/perltrap.pod + pod/perlvar.pod win32/bin/search.bat + + Title: "Document and test C<%> behavior with negative operands" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod t/op/arith.t + + Title: "Update docs on $]" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "perlvar.pod patch" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199703261254.NAA10237@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:54:00 +0100 + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Fix example of C vs. C<||>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsyn.pod + + Title: "Pod usage and spelling patch" + From: Larry W. Virden + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "Pod updates" + From: "Cary D. Renzema" + Msg-ID: <199703262353.PAA01819@macs.mxim.com> + Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 15:53:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/*.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_95 +------------------ + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't compile scalar mods of aggregates, like C<@a =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Automatically flush on C< $| = 1 >" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Refine modulus ("%") per suggestion of Tim Goodwin" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "If C, do equivalent of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Warn about undef magic values just like non-magic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Safe.pm sv.c t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t + t/lib/db-recno.t t/pragma/locale.t + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Remove redundant patch to hints/bsdos.sh" + From: Shigeya Suzuki + Msg-ID: <19970322222244K.shigeya@foretune.co.jp> + Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 22:22:44 +0900 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "Another MachTen Patch" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 15:26:48 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "Win32 update (five patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 doio.c dosish.h pp_sys.c + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm t/comp/multiline.t t/op/magic.t + t/op/mkdir.t t/op/runlevel.t t/op/stat.t t/op/write.t + win32/Makefile win32/config.H win32/config.w32 win32/win32.c + win32/win32.h win32/win32aux.c win32/*.mak win32/VC-2.0/*.mak + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix botch with G_NOARGS; PUSHMARK *is* required" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Improve 'prototype mismatch' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym op.c pod/perldiag.pod proto.h sv.c t/comp/redef.t + + Title: "In perlio, fix vprintf() definition and define vfprintf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perlio.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Fix C in Getopt::Long to work with 5.003" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Extraneous blank lines from Pod::Text" + From: Russ Allbery + Msg-ID: + Date: 25 Mar 1997 01:28:55 -0800 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Exporting UNIVERSAL::can" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 17:54:01 +0000 + Files: lib/UNIVERSAL.pm + + Title: "Term::Readline patch for AmigaOS" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724797@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 18:57:22 +0100 + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Reduce memory footprint of complex.t" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 25 Mar 1997 15:39:26 +0100 + Files: t/lib/complex.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Improve pod2man diagnostic when NAME is invalid" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL-1.8 to INSTALL-1.9 updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: fix" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "pods for subroutine argument autovivication" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 07:25:21 +0000 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Missing item in perldiag" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 23 Mar 1997 09:24:09 +0000 + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Mention and discourage use of term 'soft reference'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlref.pod + + Title: "Pod problems & fixes" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703242031.VAA14997@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 1997 21:31:51 +0100 (MET) + Files: INSTALL lib/Term/Complete.pm lib/subs.pm pod/perlcall.pod + pod/perldata.pod pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlembed.pod + pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod pod/perlop.pod + pod/perlpod.pod pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "DB_File documentation fix" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703240854.AA08401@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Mar 97 08:54:16 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + Title: "FAQ update" + From: Nathan Torkington + Files: pod/perlfaq*.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_94 +------------------ + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Defer creation of array and hash elements as parameters" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: dump.c global.sym mg.c op.c op.h perl.h pp.c pp_hot.c proto.h + sv.c + + Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c + + Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c + + Title: "Abort compilation at C or C after errors" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t + + Title: "allow C" + From: David Dyck + Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800 + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Regularize C, esp. when y is negative" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Flush before C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c sv.c toke.c + + Title: "Warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Don't warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Don't say 'static var = 1'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703091319.PAA24714@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 9 Mar 1997 15:19:57 +0200 (EET) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints" + From: Christopher Davis + Msg-ID: + Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "More MachTen hints" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 22:00:55 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/Test/Harness.pm t/op/taint.t + utils/perlbug.PL vms/descrip.mms + + Title: "vmsish.t and related patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGQW3IP1KK005VFB@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 01:32:47 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST perl.h vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/vmsish.t vms/vms.c + + Title: "Win32 update (four patches)" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy and Nick Ing-Simmons + Files: MANIFEST README.win32 lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/Cwd.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Command.pm lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_OS2.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_Win32.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/File/Basename.pm + lib/File/Path.pm mg.c t/comp/cpp.t t/comp/script.t t/harness + t/io/argv.t t/io/dup.t t/io/fs.t t/io/inplace.t + t/lib/filehand.t t/lib/io_dup.t t/lib/io_sel.t + t/lib/io_taint.t t/op/closure.t t/op/exec.t t/op/glob.t + t/op/goto.t t/op/magic.t t/op/misc.t t/op/rand.t + t/op/split.t t/op/stat.t t/op/sysio.t t/op/taint.t + t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/subs.t t/pragma/warning.t util.c + win32/* + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "For bin compat, rename calllist() and he_{,delay}free" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: global.sym hv.c op.c perl.c pod/perlguts.pod proto.h + + Title: "Fix C on tied default handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c + + Title: "printf format corrections for -DDEBUGGING" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <26592.858793370@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:42:50 -0500 + Files: doop.c malloc.c op.c pp_ctl.c regexec.c sv.c x2p/str.c + x2p/util.c + + Title: "Warn about missing -DMULTIPLICITY if likely a problem" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703192345.SAA15070@postman.osf.org> + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 18:45:53 -0500 + Files: perl.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Don't use $(LIBS) when creating shared libperl" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Makefile.SH + + Title: "Don't use db 2.x, we're not yet ready for it" + From: Paul Marquess and Andy Dougherty + Files: Configure + + Title: "Warn if #! command is longer than 32 chars" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "patches re perl -wc install{perl,man}" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <21544.9703111313@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 97 13:13:16 GMT + Files: installman installperl + + Title: "3_93 doesn't install pods" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199703160721.CAA08339@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sun, 16 Mar 1997 02:21:35 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "When installing, use File::Copy instead of `cp`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: installperl + + Title: "Make hint files' warnings more visible" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703202218.XAA09041@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:18:03 +0100 (MET) + Files: hints/3b1.sh hints/apollo.sh hints/cxux.sh hints/dcosx.sh + hints/dgux.sh hints/esix4.sh hints/freebsd.sh hints/hpux.sh + hints/irix_4.sh hints/mips.sh hints/next_3_0.sh hints/os2.sh + hints/qnx.sh hints/sco_2_3_3.sh hints/sco_2_3_4.sh + hints/solaris_2.sh hints/ultrix_4.sh hints/utekv.sh + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "New module: autouse.pm" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210034.TAA13469@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:34:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST lib/autouse.pm + + Title: "Math::Complex update" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: lib/Math/Complex.pm t/lib/complex.t + + Title: "Refresh DB_File to 1.12" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9703121551.AA07435@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Wed, 12 Mar 97 15:51:14 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "New subroutine Symbol::qualify_to_ref()" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:39:36 -0500 + Files: lib/Symbol.pm + + Title: "In debugger, don't reference %{$f{$g}} if $f{$g} doesn't exist" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "In File::Path, some systems can't remove read-only files" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/File/Path.pm + + Title: "Fix typo in -l*perl* pattern" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703110414.XAA12884@berlin.atlantic.net> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 22:58:38 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + Title: "Fix bugs revealed by prototype warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/Opcode/Opcode.pm lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Problems with SKIP in makemaker" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703210413.XAA21601@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 23:13:31 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_Unix.pm + + Title: "In Exporter, don't C at file scope" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "fix for Exporter's $SIG{__WARN__} handler" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <2282.858296451@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:40:51 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Don't try to substr() refs in Carp" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Re: NUL in die and other messages" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 09:58:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "Add entry for prototype() in Pod::Functions" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/Pod/Functions.pm + + Title: "Fix typos in IO::Socket documentation" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 20:50:16 +0000 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Socket.pm + + TESTS + + (no changes) + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Re: bug in pod2man (5.00326): section=3 for .pm modules" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 11 Mar 1997 19:09:31 -0500 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "perlfaq.pod" + From: Tom Christiansen + Msg-ID: <199703172301.QAA12566@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 16:01:40 -0700 + Files: MANIFEST pod/Makefile pod/buildtoc pod/perl.pod + pod/perlfaq*.pod pod/roffitall + + Title: "*.pod changes based on the FAQ" + From: gnat@frii.com + Msg-ID: <199703171650.JAA02655@elara.frii.com> + Date: Mon, 17 Mar 1997 09:50:14 -0700 (MST) + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlipc.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlre.pod pod/perlrun.pod + pod/perlsec.pod pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "INSTALL: How to enable debugging" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 17:55:05 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod + + Title: "Update site list" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703111053.AA20051@cas.org> + Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 10:53:49 -0500 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Patch to document illegal characters" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 09:08:10 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Document trap with //o and closures" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IGCHWRNSEU00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 18:08:08 -0500 (EST) + Files: pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Re: Inline PI function" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 07:28:57 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "XSUB's doc fix" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <28804.858012126@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 11:42:06 -0500 + Files: pod/perlcall.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlxstut.pod + + Title: "Document return from do FILE" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 14:50:10 +0000 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Document $^M in perlvar" + From: Robin Barker + Msg-ID: <6153.9703202108@tempest.cise.npl.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 97 21:08:33 GMT + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "typos in pods of 5.003_93" + From: Jim Meyering + Msg-ID: + Date: 19 Mar 1997 10:39:38 -0600 + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlre.pod + pod/perltoot.pod pod/perlxs.pod + + Title: "Re: Updates to pod punctuations" + From: lvirden@cas.org (Larry W. Virden, x2487) + Msg-ID: <9703141700.AA22911@cas.org> + Date: Fri, 14 Mar 1997 17:00:12 -0500 + Files: pod/*.pod + + Title: "clarify example in perlfunc" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199703201746.TAA25195@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 20 Mar 1997 19:46:01 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod + + Title: "Regularize headings in DB_File documentation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_93 +------------------ + +Me, last time: + "This release will be the public beta of 5.004, + or my name isn't Larson T. Pettifogger." +Me, now: + "Gone like *that*, a fortune in letterhead." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't autovivify array and hash elements in sub parameters" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199703061912.OAA20606@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 14:12:09 -0500 + Files: op.c pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Support READ and GETC for tied handles" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199703090019.TAA32591@postman.osf.org> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 19:19:38 -0500 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perltie.pod pp_sys.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Warn on C<@x =~ /a/> and C<%x =~ s/a/b/>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn on %{+undef} and @{+undef}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS update" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG8KN5R28M00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 07 Mar 1997 22:49:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm vms/descrip.mms vms/gen_shrfls.pl + vms/sockadapt.h + + Title: "AmigaOS hint patch" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724767@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:50:15 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make conversion of @_ to real array work right after C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: av.c + + Title: "Fix imbalanced ENTER/LEAVE from C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c proto.h + + Title: "perl -P path patch" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Allow './Configure -Uoptimize'" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 19:53:00 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't count on 'trap 0' inside () in shell script" + From: aburlison@cix.compulink.co.uk (Alan Burlison) + Msg-ID: + Date: Thu, 6 Mar 97 16:28 GMT0 + Files: perl_exp.SH + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Carp with multiple arguments" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 20:12:17 +0000 + Files: lib/Carp.pm + + Title: "@EXPORT_FAIL fix for Exporter.pm" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <24884.857841724@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 08 Mar 1997 12:22:04 -0500 + Files: lib/Exporter.pm + + Title: "Open[23] autoflush docs" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <7939.857693947@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:19:07 -0500 + Files: lib/IPC/Open2.pm lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix counts in output of TEST" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <331F1507.4BE8@iii.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 19:03:35 +0000 + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Ignore backup files in strict.t and warning.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/strict.t t/pragma/warning.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Quote pathname before using as pattern" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Consolidated INSTALL updates since _92" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 8 Mar 1997 00:37:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: README.os2 + + Title: "PODs corrections" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703080253.VAA24975@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 21:53:04 -0500 (EST) + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/Socket/Socket.pm + lib/Class/Template.pm lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm + lib/File/Basename.pm lib/File/stat.pm lib/Time/gmtime.pm + lib/Time/localtime.pm lib/Time/tm.pm lib/User/grent.pm + lib/User/pwent.pm pod/perlcall.pod pod/perldebug.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perlop.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_92 +------------------ + +This release will be the public beta of 5.004, or my name isn't +Larson T. Pettifogger. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Strictly follow lexical context of C and nested subs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make ::SUPER and UNIVERSAL work together" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c pod/perlguts.pod + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "HP-UX hint update" + From: Raphael Manfredi + Msg-ID: <1479.857653838@lyon.grenoble.hp.com> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 97 14:10:38 +0100 + Files: hints/hpux.sh + + Title: "Re: The continuing MachTen saga" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 09:47:22 -0800 (PST) + Files: hints/machten_2.sh + + Title: "OS/2 patches" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703060308.WAA22211@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 22:08:43 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/os2.sh lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm t/op/taint.t + + Title: "VMS patches" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IG5SQE4A6U00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 23:10:24 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/Manifest.pm perlsdio.h + t/op/runlevel.t t/op/taint.t vms/descrip.mms vms/perly_c.vms + vms/sockadapt.c vms/sockadapt.h vms/vms_yfix.pl + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Make sure $^X is tainted when ARG_ZERO_IS_SCRIPT" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Clarify '-T too late' error" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Warn when redefining or undefining a constant sub" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pp.c sv.c + + Title: "Don't generate spurious 'not imported' warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c t/pragma/strict-vars pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Clarify message re: @host in string" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perltrap.pod toke.c + + Title: "Disconnect refs that are targets of pp_readline" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix typo in test of HvFILL()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Allow for pad name array to be shorter than pad array" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Eliminate format-string type warnings" + From: Hallvard B Furuseth + Msg-ID: <199703030915.KAA11634@bombur2.uio.no> + Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 10:15:11 +0100 (MET) + Files: doio.c ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs gv.c hints/dec_osf.sh pp.c pp_ctl.c + pp_hot.c run.c sv.c x2p/a2py.c + + Title: "Update copyright dates" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: *.[hc] x2p/*.[hc] win32/EXTERN.h vms/vmsish.h vms/vms.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "near-harmless bug in _91's Configure" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 01 Mar 1997 21:26:49 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Change 'continuing anyway' to 'probably harmless'" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: INSTALL lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Newer ReadLine" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199703040634.BAA19919@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 01:34:28 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Term/ReadLine.pm lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Refresh Getopt::Long to 2.9" + From: Johan Vromans + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm + + Title: "Benchmark: using code refs" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199703041132.LAA07613@tyree.iii.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 04 Mar 1997 11:32:11 +0000 + Files: lib/Benchmark.pm + + Title: "Fix quotewords" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199703060755.HAA15060@crypt.compulink.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 06 Mar 1997 07:55:25 +0000 + Files: lib/Text/ParseWords.pm + + Title: "Use IV instead of double for tms structure members" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs + + Title: "Document IO::File::new_tmpfile" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/File.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Make op/TEST silent under -w" + From: d-lewart@uiuc.edu (Daniel S. Lewart) + Msg-ID: <199703011821.NAA13037@sinistar.idle.com> + Date: Sat, 1 Mar 97 12:04:09 CST + Files: t/TEST + + Title: "Smarter t/op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:25:03 -0800 (PST) + Files: pod/pod2html.PL + + Title: "Support 'long long' in h2ph" + From: (name lost) + Files: utils/h2ph.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Add taint checks and srand to perldelta" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Clarify C documentation" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 16:54:22 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Enhance description of 'server error'" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702041903.VAA16070@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 21:03:23 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Regularize format of E-Mail addresses in *.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/*.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_91 +------------------ + +This is (should be? must be!) the public beta of 5.004. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix perl_call_*() when !G_EVAL" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702250725.CAA09192@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702251925.OAA15498@aatma.engin.umich.edu>, + <199702252200.RAA16853@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 02:25:56 -0500 + Files: MANIFEST gv.c interp.sym perl.c perl.h pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c + t/op/runlevel.t + + Title: "Fix taint tests for writeable dirs in $ENV{PATH}" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c mg.h pod/perlsec.pod taint.c + + Title: "Forbid tainted parameters for truncate()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't taint magic hash keys unnecessarily" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFXL9TY74Y00661G@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 02:11:26 -0500 (EST) + Files: hv.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches post _90" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFYDE5ZT7O005A53@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 15:26:33 -0500 (EST) + Files: doio.c mg.c perl.h pp_hot.c t/op/rand.t t/op/taint.t taint.c + vms/descrip.mms vms/vms.c + + Title: "Fix taint check in system() and exec() under VMS and OS/2" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "If _XOPEN_VERSION >= 4, socket length parameters are size_t" + From: Michael H. Moran + Files: perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "Make dooneliner() compile again" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Short-circuit duplicate study() calls" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Call sv_set[iu]v() with [IU]V parameter, not [IU]32" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pp.c pp_sys.c toke.c util.c + + Title: "Clean up and document API for hashes" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702251824.NAA14859@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 13:24:02 -0500 + Files: hv.c hv.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlguts.pod + + Title: "pp_undef was not always freeing memory" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702270653.BAA13949@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 01:53:51 -0500 (EST) + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Fix SEGV when debugging with foreach() lvalue patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702271924.OAA14557@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 14:24:36 -0500 (EST) + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Don't examine rx->exec_tainted if pregexec() fails" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Silence bogus typo warning on $DB::postponed" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702271802.NAA12505@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 13:02:30 -0500 + Files: op.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Sanity check linking with $libs" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:13:45 -0500 (EST) + Files: Configure + + Title: "Flush stdout when printing $randbits guess" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "Configure changes for Irix nm" + From: Helmut Jarausch and Fabien Tassin + Files: Configure + + Title: "Update OS/2 Configure diff" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251906.OAA10608@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:06:23 -0500 (EST) + Files: os2/diff.configure + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Don't require() in a signal handler" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Make IPC::Open3 work without fork()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702251937.OAA10718@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 14:37:07 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/IPC/Open3.pm + + Title: "Follow up on elimination of $` $& $' in libraries" + From: "M.J.T. Guy" + Msg-ID: + Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 13:59:42 +0000 + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/diagnostics.pm + + Title: "Don't warn on use of CCFLAGS" + From: Andreas Koenig + Msg-ID: <199702251038.LAA13123@anna.in-berlin.de> + Date: Tue, 25 Feb 1997 11:38:43 +0100 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm + + Title: "Allow explicit '-lperl' in link arguments" + From: Doug MacEachern + Msg-ID: <199702271625.LAA25402@postman.osf.org> + Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 11:25:04 -0500 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Embed.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "New test op/taint.t" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: , Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Eliminate dead code in pod2man" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Warn about intrusive sfio behavior" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Files: pod/perlrun.pod + + Title: "Fix references to perlbug" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perllocale.pod + pod/perltoc.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_90 +------------------ + +At last, a mil[le]stone: The first beta of Perl 5.004. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Automatically call srand() before rand() if user didn't" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlfunc.pod pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Ultrix hints" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199702220951.EAA08156@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 04:51:48 -0500 + Files: hints/ultrix_4.sh + + Title: "Digital UNIX and 3_28" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702231427.QAA13807@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:27:19 +0200 (EET) + Files: Configure MANIFEST ext/NDBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl + ext/ODBM_File/hints/dec_osf.pl hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "AmigaOS patches to 5.003_28" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724759@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 18:08:02 +0100 + Files: README.amiga hints/amigaos.sh t/io/fs.t t/lib/anydbm.t + t/lib/db-btree.t t/lib/db-hash.t t/lib/db-recno.t + t/lib/gdbm.t t/lib/ndbm.t t/lib/odbm.t t/lib/sdbm.t + t/op/magic.t t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Hints for DC/OSx" + From: Stephen Zander + Msg-ID: <199702242124.NAA03796@wsuse5.mckesson.com> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:54 -0800 + Files: hints/dcosx.sh + + Title: "Update VMS version" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Don't assume that sizeof(int) >= sizeof(void*)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c malloc.c regexec.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Re: ccdlflags don't quite work" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 08:42:59 -0500 + Files: installperl + + Title: "installperl breaks running system (for a while)" + From: Spider Boardman + Msg-ID: <199702241412.JAA11829@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 09:12:11 -0500 + Files: installperl + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Don't clobber $1 et al in debugger's DB::sub()" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500 + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm + + Title: "Pod::Text fixes" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: <350.856634588@eeyore.ibcinc.com> + Date: Sat, 22 Feb 1997 13:03:08 -0500 + Files: lib/Pod/Text.pm + + Title: "Trivial patch to make ExtUtils::Install more -w clean" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000 + Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm + + Title: "C didn't work until 5.002" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/vars.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()" + From: Tom Phoenix + Files: t/op/rand.t + + Title: "Don't use <*> where readdir() will do" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Allow for $^X to be 'miniperl'" + From: Dominic Dunlop + Msg-ID: + Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100 + Files: t/op/magic.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:29:30 -0500 + Files: pod/perlsub.pod pod/perltrap.pod + + Title: "Add documentation and '-h' option to perlbug" + From: Gurusamy Sarathy + Msg-ID: <199702240854.DAA27128@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + and <199702242009.PAA02849@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 + Files: pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod installman + utils/perlbug.PL + + Title: "pumpkin-1.9.pod" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: undefine &foo" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Make code, doc agree on $ENV{PATH} and `cmd`" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlsec.pod pp_sys.c + + Title: "Don't taint $x in C<$x = ($tainted =~ /(\w+)/)>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c + + Title: "Turn off 'expression tainted' flag at end of runops()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: run.c + + Title: "When overloading, don't throw away nomethod's value" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Files: gv.c + + Title: "Optimize keys() and values() in void context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c op.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "New hints for Digital UNIX" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "No version of AIX has working setre[ug]id()" + From: neufeld@fast.pvi.org (Keith Neufeld) + Files: hints/aix.sh + + Title: "VMS patches post _27" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFMEMPN1IU0057E2@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 01:58:46 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST dosish.h hv.c lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c perlsdio.h pod/perldelta.pod + pod/perlvar.pod t/op/closure.t unixish.h vms/Makefile + vms/descrip.mms vms/ext/filespec.t vms/genconfig.pl + vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "Re: OS/2 patch for _27" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210024.TAA03174@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 19:24:16 -0500 (EST) + Files: INSTALL README.os2 lib/Test/Harness.pm os2/Changes + os2/OS2/PrfDB/t/os2_prfdb.t os2/os2.c os2/os2ish.h + os2/perl2cmd.pl perl.c pod/perldelta.pod t/TEST t/harness + t/op/magic.t + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix a typo" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Undo signal patch -- it broke die() in signal" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Fix perl_call_sv(..., G_NOARGS)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Fix SIGSEGV when cloning sub with complex expression" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + Title: "Minor update to malloc.c" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210244.VAA03676@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST) + Files: malloc.c + + Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perly.y + + BUILD PROCESS + + (no changes) + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "Debugger patch" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210737.CAA03951@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 02:37:59 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/perl5db.pl + + Title: "Avoid $` $& $' in libraries" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702210207.VAA03560@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:07:30 -0500 (EST) + Files: lib/Getopt/Long.pm lib/Pod/Text.pm lib/diagnostics.pm + os2/OS2/REXX/REXX.pm + + Title: "Remove redundant clearerr() from IO::Seekable" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Handle.pm ext/IO/lib/IO/Seekable.pm + + Title: "prototype error in File::stat" + From: Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com + Msg-ID: <199702180748.HAA14151@ultra-boy> + Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 07:48:40 GMT + Files: lib/File/stat.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Include 'study' in regexp.t" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/op/regexp.t + + Title: "Don't run locale test if -DNO_LOCALE" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + Title: "Tweak tests to notice $dont_use_nlink" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/io/fs.t t/op/stat.t + + Title: "Add test for grep() and wantarray" + From: Hugo van der Sanden + Msg-ID: <199702181105.LAA17895@tyree.iii.co.uk> + Date: Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:05:59 +0000 + Files: t/op/misc.t + + UTILITIES + + (no changes) + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "INSTALL updates since _26" + From: Andy Dougherty + Msg-ID: " + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Correct doc that claimed that was never false" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlop.pod + + Title: "Document C<$?> vs. $SIG{CHLD}" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + Files: pod/perlvar.pod + + Title: "Add pumpkin.pod" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST Porting/pumpkin.pod + + Title: "Don't say "associat*ve arr*y"" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: MANIFEST gv.h hv.c lib/Env.pm lib/overload.pm opcode.pl + pod/perl.pod pod/perldelta.pod pod/perldiag.pod + pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlguts.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perltie.pod pod/perltoc.pod pod/perltrap.pod x2p/a2p.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_27 +------------------ + +This release is beta candidate #5: Our last, best hope for a beta. + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Better looks_like_number() function [sv.c]" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702141708.SAA17546@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 18:08:52 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Remove redundant functions UNIVERSAL::{class,is_instance}" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Date: 14 Feb 1997 15:52:21 +0000 + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlobj.pod t/op/universal.t universal.c + + Title: "Allow C" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 16 Feb 1997 23:19:12 -0500 + Files: pp_sys.c + + Title: "Fix syntax error on C<&$1>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix sub call through magic var (e.g. C<&$1>)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c + + Title: "Fix grep() with refs in array context" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Eliminate $^S; add C" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IFI9CFKL0S004R2V@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Mon, 17 Feb 1997 02:45:26 -0500 (EST) + Files: MANIFEST gv.c lib/English.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/Mksymlists.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp mg.c op.c + perl.c perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlmod.pod + pod/perlvar.pod pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c utils/perldoc.PL + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.pm vms/ext/Stdio/Stdio.xs + vms/ext/XSSymSet.pm vms/ext/vmsish.pm vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + win32/makedef.pl + + Title: "Eliminate FP exceptions under SCO 5" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: hints/sco.sh unixish.h + + Title: "Digital UNIX hints" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702151906.VAA22999@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Sat, 15 Feb 1997 21:06:33 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "Irix6.4 (with 7.1 compilers)" + From: John Stoffel + Msg-ID: <199702130238.VAA24468@jfs.Fluent.COM> + Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 21:38:51 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/irix_6_2.sh hints/irix_6_4.sh + + Title: "Update Plan 9, Win32, VMS configs with $shortsize and $longsize" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: plan9/config.plan9 plan9/genconfig.pl + vms/genconfig.pl win32/config.w32 + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix core dump when embedding" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + Title: "Re: Fragile signals" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702130644.BAA07572@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 01:44:39 -0500 (EST) + Files: mg.c + + Title: "Make format strings correspond exactly to parameters" + From: Roderick Schertler + Msg-ID: + Date: 13 Feb 1997 17:24:31 -0500 + Files: doio.c ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs ext/Opcode/Opcode.xs gv.c op.c + perl.c pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c regcomp.c toke.c + + Title: "Don't try to attach 'o' magic to read-only values" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Fix carriage-return message" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "In <=>, test for equality first" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + Title: "Don't mark sv_{true,false} PADTMP" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix eval "" in Configure" + From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) + Msg-ID: <9702141809.AA17001@gateway.grumman.com> + Date: Fri, 14 Feb 1997 13:09:53 -0500 + Files: Configure + + Title: "Don't link with -lsfio if sfio is not requested" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: Configure + + Title: "perl5.003_26 Configure change "win" for AIX 4" + From: Tim Mooney + Msg-ID: + Date: 10 Feb 1997 18:38:45 +0100 + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "Update To-Do list" + From: Tim Bunce + Msg-ID: <9702101900.AA25293@toad.ig.co.uk> + Date: Mon, 10 Feb 1997 19:00:59 +0000 + Files: Todo + + Title: "Fix formatting in perldiag" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_26 +------------------ + +This release is beta candidate #4. "Once more, dear friends...." + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make \r in script an error (per Larry)" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldiag.pod toke.c + + Title: "Support '%i' format and 'h' modifier in s?printf" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doop.c pod/perldelta.pod + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "Fix value of system() and $? for DEC UNIX, VMS, others" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: mg.c perl.h pp_sys.c + + Title: "VMS patches post _25" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IF48W3P39W0050BD@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 01:56:12 -0500 (EST) + Files: Porting/Glossary lib/ExtUtils/Liblist.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm lib/ExtUtils/xsubpp perl.c + vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms vms/genconfig.pl + vms/perlvms.pod vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h x2p/a2p.c + + Title: "Hints for BSDOS" + From: Christopher Davis + Msg-ID: <199702042011.PAA09206@loiosh.kei.com> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:11:13 -0500 (EST) + Files: hints/bsdos.sh + + Title: "On C, call C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Fix (yet another) Tk closure problem" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c perl.c pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Fix value of C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Regexp optimizations" + From: Ilya Zakharevich + Msg-ID: <199702041102.GAA24805@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 06:02:10 -0500 (EST) + Files: regcomp.c regexec.c + + Title: "Re: static buffer in not_a_number() [sv.c] might overflow" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: + Date: 09 Feb 1997 11:55:41 +0100 + Files: sv.c + + Title: "Refine 'runaway string' heuristic" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c + + Title: "Fix core dump on C in eval" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_ctl.c + + Title: "Catch C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c + + BUILD PROCESS + + Title: "Fix usage message in configure.gnu" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Files: configure.gnu + + LIBRARY AND EXTENSIONS + + Title: "DB_File 1.11 patch" + From: Paul Marquess + Msg-ID: <9702061553.AA18147@claudius.bfsec.bt.co.uk> + Date: Thu, 6 Feb 97 15:53:34 GMT + Files: ext/DB_File/DB_File.pm ext/DB_File/DB_File.xs + + Title: "Faster File::Compare" + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702051342.OAA02753@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 14:42:49 +0100 + Files: lib/File/Compare.pm + + Title: "Make diagnostics module strip formatting directives" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: lib/diagnostics.pm pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Fix warning from missing POSIX::setvbuf()" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/IO/IO.xs + + TESTS + + Title: "Fix closure.t for AmigaOS (again)" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724742@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 05 Feb 1997 18:56:45 +0100 + Files: t/op/closure.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "perldoc -f " + From: Gisle Aas + Msg-ID: <199702051127.MAA02090@bergen.sn.no> + Date: Wed, 5 Feb 1997 12:27:36 +0100 + Files: utils/perldoc.PL + + Title: "Fix pod2man's handling of quotes in =items" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199702042023.WAA13143@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 22:23:34 +0200 (EET) + Files: pod/pod2man.PL + + DOCUMENTATION + + Title: "return *FH pod patch" + From: allen@gateway.grumman.com (John L. Allen) + Msg-ID: <9702061507.AA04474@gateway.grumman.com> + Date: Thu, 6 Feb 1997 10:07:28 -0500 + Files: pod/perldata.pod pod/perlsub.pod + + Title: "Describe interation of untie and DESTROY" + From: Paul Marquess and Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perltie.pod + + +------------------ + Version 5.003_25 +------------------ + +This release is beta candidate #3. Here's hoping... + + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES + + Title: "Make $] read-only" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: gv.c + + Title: "New variable C<$^S> is a native version of C<$?>" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: doio.c global.sym gv.c interp.sym lib/English.pm mg.c perl.c + perl.h pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pod/perlvar.pod + pp_ctl.c pp_sys.c proto.h util.c + + Title: "Make $^T work with undump, and don't taint it" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c + + CORE PORTABILITY + + Title: "VMS patches for _24" + From: Charles Bailey + Msg-ID: <01IEUIFP5038004GQP@hmivax.humgen.upenn.edu> + Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 02:34:37 -0500 (EST) + Files: ext/DynaLoader/DynaLoader.pm ext/DynaLoader/dl_vms.xs + lib/AutoSplit.pm lib/ExtUtils/MM_VMS.pm + lib/ExtUtils/MakeMaker.pm perl.h pp_hot.c t/lib/filehand.t + t/op/closure.t vms/Makefile vms/config.vms vms/descrip.mms + vms/ext/filespec.t vms/vms.c vms/vmsish.h + + Title: "hints/dec_osf.sh: polishing the comments" + From: Jarkko Hietaniemi + Msg-ID: <199701301958.VAA08992@alpha.hut.fi> + Date: Thu, 30 Jan 1997 21:58:10 +0200 (EET) + Files: hints/dec_osf.sh + + Title: "amigaos.sh" + From: Norbert Pueschel + Msg-ID: <77724724@Armageddon.meb.uni-bonn.de> + Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 11:39:49 +0100 + Files: hints/amigaos.sh + + OTHER CORE CHANGES + + Title: "Require '-T' in argv[], not just on #! line" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: perl.c pod/perldiag.pod + + Title: "Fix C and associated stack bugs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: cop.h pp_ctl.c pp_hot.c t/op/misc.t + + Title: "Fix never-closing handle after C