----------------
+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 <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ 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 <jhi@iki.fi>
+ 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" <pueschel@imsdd.meb.uni-bonn.de>
+ 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
+
+ #20: "Hints for DC/OSx"
+ From: Stephen Zander <srz@loopback>
+ 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 <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224160630.5700E-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:07:07 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "Use $ccflags, $ldflags, $libs when determining $randbits"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: Configure
+
+ Title: "'installperl -v' doesn't do enough"
+ From: Spider Boardman <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ 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 <spider@Orb.Nashua.NH.US>
+ 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 <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>
+ Files: lib/perl5db.pl
+
+ Title: "Fix fd leak in IO::Pipe"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ Msg-ID: <pzn2sv722y.fsf@eeyore.ibcinc.com>
+ Date: 23 Feb 1997 14:29:57 -0500
+ Files: ext/IO/lib/IO/Pipe.pm
+
+ Title: "Pod::Text fixes"
+ From: Roderick Schertler <roderick@gate.net>
+ 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 <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>
+ Msg-ID: <9702241605.AA17436@toad.ig.co.uk>
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:05:17 +0000
+ Files: lib/ExtUtils/Install.pm
+
+ Title: "C<use vars> didn't work until 5.002"
+ From: Chip Salzenberg
+ Files: lib/vars.pm
+
+ TESTS
+
+ Title: "More thoroughly test rand() and srand()"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ 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 <domo@slipper.ip.lu>
+ Msg-ID: <v03020903af360f31aced@[194.51.248.65]>
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 16:22:45 +0100
+ Files: t/op/magic.t
+
+ UTILITIES
+
+ Title: "Post-28 INSTALL updates"
+ From: Andy Dougherty <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224170713.5700H-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 17:09:09 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: INSTALL
+
+ Title: "Re: Hash key created by subroutine call? (fwd) "
+ From: Gurusamy Sarathy <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ 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 <gsar@engin.umich.edu>
+ 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 <doughera@fractal.phys.lafayette.edu>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.95q.970224155702.5700D-100000@fractal.lafayette.e
+ Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 16:06:02 -0500 (EST)
+ Files: Porting/pumpkin.pod
+
+ DOCUMENTATION
+
+ Title: "Fix typo in 'Tolkien quotation typo' fix"
+ From: Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@hut.fi>
+ Files: Changes
+
+ Title: "Document one-argument limitation with #! line"
+ From: Tom Phoenix <rootbeer@teleport.com>
+ Msg-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.970223182745.15989A-100000@kelly.teleport.com
+ Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 18:41:02 -0800 (PST)
+ Files: pod/perldiag.pod pod/perlsec.pod
+
+
+----------------
Version 5.003_28
----------------
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 21:44:13 -0500 (EST)
Files: malloc.c
- Title: "Fix the Tolkein quote"
+ Title: "Fix the Tolkien quotation"
From: Chip Salzenberg
Files: perly.y