X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changes;h=b7f1ad5f703870fc4f62dcff140e41cba5de737b;hb=68dc074516a6859e3424b48d1647bcb08b1a1a7d;hp=c2f50c229be868c3a43ee9b23c94980c77d2d376;hpb=378cc40b38293ffc7298c6a7ed3cd740ad79be52;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git diff --git a/Changes b/Changes index c2f50c2..b7f1ad5 100644 --- a/Changes +++ b/Changes @@ -1,89 +1,9399 @@ -New regexp routines derived from Henry Spencer's. - Support for /(foo|bar)/. - Support for /(foo)*/ and /(foo)+/. - \s for whitespace, \S nonwhitespace - \d for digit, \D nondigit +Please note: This file provides a summary of significant changes +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, +or in the .../src/5/0/unsupported directory for sub-version +releases.) -Local variables in blocks, subroutines and evals. -Recursive subroutine calls are now supported. +---------------- +Version 5.003_94 +---------------- -Array values may now be interpolated into lists: - unlink 'foo', 'bar', @trashcan, 'tmp'; + CORE LANGUAGE CHANGES -File globbing via <*.foo>. + 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 -Use of <> in array contexts returns the whole file or glob list: - unlink <*.foo>; + Title: "New special literal: __PACKAGE__" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: keywords.pl pod/perldata.pod toke.c -New iterator for normal arrays, foreach, that allows both read and write: - foreach $elem ($array) { - $elem =~ s/foo/bar/; - } + Title: "Ignore whitespace before +*? in //x" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: regcomp.c -Ability to open pipe to a forked off script for secure pipes in setuid scripts. + Title: "Abort compilation at C or C after errors" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod t/pragma/subs.t -File inclusion via - do 'foo.pl'; + Title: "allow C" + From: David Dyck + Msg-ID: <97Mar10.155517pst.35716-2@gateway.fluke.com> + Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 15:55:44 -0800 + Files: pp.c -More file tests, including -t to see if, for instance, stdin is -a terminal. File tests now behave in a more correct manner. You can do -file tests on filehandles as well as filenames. The special filetests --T and -B test a file to see if it's text or binary. + Title: "Regularize C, esp. when y is negative" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c -An eof can now be used on each file of the <> input for such purposes -as resetting the line numbers or appending to each file of an inplace edit. + Title: "Flush before C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pod/perldelta.pod pod/perlfunc.pod pp_sys.c -Assignments can now function as lvalues, so you can say things like - ($HOST = $host) =~ tr/a-z/A-Z/; - ($obj = $src) =~ s/\.c$/.o/; + Title: "Close loopholes in prototype mismatch warning" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c sv.c toke.c -You can now do certain file operations with a variable which holds the name -of a filehandle, e.g. open(++$incl,$includefilename); $foo = <$incl>; + Title: "Warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c pod/perldiag.pod -You can now a subroutine indirectly through a scalar variable: - $which = 'xyz'; - do $which('foo'); # calls xyz + Title: "Don't warn on C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c -Warnings are now available (with -w) on use of uninitialized variables and on -identifiers that are mentioned only once, and on reference to various -undefined things. + CORE PORTABILITY -The -S switch causes perl to search the PATH for the script so that you can say - eval "exec /usr/bin/perl -S $0 $*" - if $running_under_some_shell; + 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 -Reset now resets arrays and associative arrays as well as string variables. + Title: "BSD/OS 3.0 hints" + From: Christopher Davis + Msg-ID: + Date: 14 Mar 1997 16:20:46 -0500 + Files: hints/bsdos.sh -Assigning off the end of an array now nulls out any intervening values. + Title: "More MachTen hints" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + 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 -s/foo/bar/i optimization bug fixed. + 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/* -The $x = "...$x..."; bug is fixed. + OTHER CORE CHANGES -The @ary = (1); bug is now fixed. You can even say @ary = 1; + Title: "Guard against buffer overflow in yyerror() and related funcs" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: toke.c -$= now returns the correct value. + 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 -Several of the larger files are now split into smaller pieces for easier -compilation. + Title: "Fix C on tied default handle" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c -Pattern matches evaluated in an array context now return ($1, $2...). + Title: "Fix C" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: op.c -There is now a wait operator. + Title: "Improve diagnostic on C<@a++>, C<--%a>, @a =~ s/a/b/" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp.c pp_hot.c -There is now a sort operator. + Title: "Don't warn on C<$x{y} .= "z"> when %x is tied" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: pp_hot.c -The requirement of parens around certain expressions when taking their value -has been lifted. In particular, you can say - $x = print "foo","bar"; - $x = unlink "foo","bar"; - chdir "foo" || die "Can't chdir to foo\n"; + Title: "Eliminate 'unreachable code' warnings" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: ext/POSIX/POSIX.xs mg.c pp_ctl.c toke.c -The manual is now not lying when it says that perl is generally faster than -sed. I hope. + 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: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (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: + Msg-ID: <199703112255.RAA22775@postman.osf.org> + 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: + Msg-ID: + 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: + Msg-ID: <199703080053.TAA13943@web.zk3.dec.com> + 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: + Msg-ID: <199703080537.AAA25157@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu> + 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: , + Graham Barr + Msg-ID: <199703011732.KAA14693@jhereg.perl.com> + Date: Sat, 01 Mar 1997 10:32:31 -0700 + Files: pod/perlmod.pod + + Title: "Clarify C documentation" + From: Tom Phoenix + Msg-ID: + Msg-ID: <199703021454.QAA07446@alpha.hut.fi> + 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: + 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: + Msg-ID: <199702241342.IAA25945@Orb.Nashua.NH.US> + 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: + Msg-ID: <199702242229.RAA04395@aatma.engin.umich.edu> + 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: + Files: Changes + + Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line" + From: Tom Phoenix + 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: + Files: lib/CPAN.pm lib/CPAN/FirstTime.pm lib/CPAN/Nox.pm + + Title: "Refresh Test::Harness to 1.15" + From: Andreas Koenig + Files: lib/Test/Harness.pm + + TESTS + + Title: "Remove non-portable locale tests" + From: Chip Salzenberg + Files: t/pragma/locale.t + + UTILITIES + + Title: "pod2man: missing '-' in name section shouldn't be fatal" + From: Ulrich Pfeifer + 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: pmarquess@bfsec.bt.co.uk (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