-=head1 NAME
+M=head1 NAME
perldelta - what is new for perl v5.8.0
=item *
+L<threads> - interpreter threads
+
+=item *
+
+L<threads::shared> - data sharing for interpreter threads
+
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+
L<Time::HiRes> - high resolution ualarm, usleep, and gettimeofday
=item *
=item *
-L<UnicodeCD> - Unicode Character Database
+L<Unicode::CD> - Unicode Character Database
+
+=item *
+
+Unicode::Collate - Unicode collation
+
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+
+Unicode::Normalize - Unicode normalization
=back
The L<vars> pragma now supports declaring fully qualified variables.
(Something that C<our()> does not and will not support.)
+=item *
+
+List::Util now has shuffle() for randomizing a list.
+
=back
=head1 Utility Changes
=item *
+perlintro is a gentle introduction to Perl.
+
+=item *
+
+perlmodstyle is a style guide for writing modules.
+
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+
perlnewmod tells about writing and submitting a new module.
=item *
+perlpod has been rewritten to be clearer and to record the best
+practices gathered over the years.
+
+=item *
+
+perlpodstyle is a more formal specification of the pod format,
+mainly of interest for writers of pod applications, not to
+people writing in pod.
+
+=item *
+
perlposix-bc explains using Perl on the POSIX-BC platform
(an EBCDIC mainframe platform).
=item *
+perltootc has been renamed as perltooc (to not to conflict
+with perltoot in filesystem restricted to "8.3" names)
+
+=item *
+
+perluniintro is an introduction to using Unicode in Perl
+(perlunicode is more of a reference)
+
+=item *
+
perlutil explains the command line utilities packaged with the Perl
distribution.
The Amdahl UTS UNIX mainframe platform is now supported.
+=item *
+
+WinCE is now supported. See L<perlce>.
+
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+
+If you have CPAN access you can during specify extra modules to
+Configure to build and install with Perl using the -Dextras=...
+option. See INSTALL for more details.
+
+=item *
+
+In addition to config.over a new override file, config.arch, is
+available. That is supposed to be used by hints file writers for
+architecture-wide changes (as opposed to config.over which is for
+site-wide changes).
+
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+
+Guidelines of how to construct minimal Perl installations have
+been added to INSTALL.
+
+=item *
+
+For Perl developers several new make targets for profiling
+have been added, see L<perlhack>.
+
=back
=head1 Selected Bug Fixes
speed of vendors' malloc is generally better in large address space
machines (Perl's malloc is mostly tuned for space).
+=item *
+
+PERL_OBJECT has been completely removed.
+
=back
=head1 Security Vulnerability Closed