The following changes are a filtered list of changes which weren't backported
to 5.10.1. They were run through changelogger.bestpractical.com and triaged
-by a set of Perl 5 Porters. Changes to blead after 5945e41e have not yet
-been triaged or integrated.
+by a set of Perl 5 Porters. Changes to blead after
+fafe5ad5a7e57ca14cd0844db173f3a4d6c9e8de
+
+have not yet been triaged or integrated.
The following changes need to be
+=head2 Dual-lifed modules moved
+
+Dual-lifed modules maintained primarily in the Perl core now live in ext/.
+Dual-lifed modules maintained primarily on CPAN now live in cpan/
+
+=head2 MAD now builds on C++
+
+ Fix building MAD with C++ - a MAD_PV of "" is illegal, as it will be free()d.
+
+commit 4e73d6a402bc493d66d19c409c41e1e271c6450b
+Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+Date: Wed Sep 23 11:59:31 2009 +0100
+
+ Add a --chdir option to configpm, and use this in the Win32 Makfiles.
+
+ A slight Makefile simplification, and another move towards Win32 standardising
+ on running miniperl as $(MINIPERL), which currently is ..\miniperl.exe
+
+
+=head2 miniperl no longer builds with UTF-8 support in the regexp engine to support the bootstrapping process
+
+ This allows a build to complete with PERL_UNICODE set and a UTF-8 locale.
+ Without this there's a bootstrapping problem, as miniperl can't load the UTF-8
+ components of the regexp engine, because they're not yet built.
+
+=head2 miniperl now has a restricted @INC
+
+ Restrict miniperl to just -I..., the split of $ENV{PERL5LIB}, and "." in @INC
+
+=head2 miniperl now identifies itself in the output of miniperl -V
+
+PERL_IS_MINIPERL is now declared in the verbose configuration output.
+
+
+=head2 Upgrade to Class::ISA 0.34
+=head2 Deprecate Class::ISA from core
+
+Whihch of htose is right?
+
+=head2 Upgrade to Attribute::Handlers 0.87
+=head2 Upgrade to AutoLoader 5.70
+
+=head2 Upgrade to IO::Zlib 1.10
+
+=head2 Note that Pod::Plainer is upgraded, and deprecated from core.
+
+=head2 Parallel testing is pretty much done.
+
+=head2 Update parent to CPAN version 0.223
+
+=head2 Update Log::Message::Simple to CPAN version 0.06
+=head2 Updated Math::BigRat to CPAN version 0.24
+
+=head2 Update Archive::Tar to CPAN version 1.54
+
+=head2 Update IPC::Cmd to CPAN version 0.50
+
+=head2 Updated CPANPLUS::Dist::Build to CPAN version 0.40
+
+=head2 Updated Module::Loaded to CPAN version 0.06
+
+=head2 Upgrade to Encode 2.37
+
+commit d8723a6a74b2c12e9d732728dbe717672ab893f2
+Author: Salvador Ortiz Garcia <sog@msg.com.mx>
+Date: Sun Sep 6 23:41:57 2009 +0200
+
+ Corrupt filename when setting %INC entry in a @INC hook
+
+ The code in pp_ctl.c after calling an @INC hook blindly assumes that the
+ SV setted by the user in %INC is an SVPV (SvPOK true) for setting the
+ filename. So when the user uses other scalar types, the output of
+ __FILE__, warn, die, caller, etc. shows random garbage.
+
+Author: Zefram <zefram@fysh.org>
+Date: Sun Sep 6 17:29:43 2009 +0200
+
+ Fix [perl #66970] Incorrect coderef in MODIFY_CODE_ATTRIBUTES
+
+ Attribute handlers being applied to a temporary CV has actually been
+ reported as a bug, #66970. The attached patch fixes the bug, by
+ changing the order in which things happen: attributes are now applied
+ after the temporary CV has been merged into the existing CV or has
+ otherwise been added to the appropriate GV.
+
+ The change breaks part of Attribute::Handlers. Part of A:H searches the
+ package to find the name of the sub to which a :ATTR attribute is being
+ applied, and the correct time at which to launch that search depends
+ crucially on the order in which the CV construction events occur. So
+ this patch also includes a change to A:H, to make it detect which way
+ things happen. The resulting A:H works either way, which is essential
+ for its dual-life nature.
+
+commit 354c724e8ab74f150e14800acc80d505949161f5
+Author: Nicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>
+Date: Fri Sep 4 11:04:30 2009 +0100
+
+ OS/2 hadn't been updated to cope with the ext/ restructuring.
+
+ I don't have OS/2, so I can't test this, but the code in Configure will assume
+ flat directories, because ext/File-Glob is present, and hence not search
+ recursively and not find the OS/2 extensions if they are copied into ext/OS2/*
+
+ I believe that without this change OS/2 will not have been building since the
+ change to flattened ext. This change may not be sufficient to get OS/2
+ building again, but it is in the right direction.
+
+commit bf6bfb44d9f2e07e4bd25b8eba2d9132fcec637e
+Author: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
+Date: Fri Sep 4 12:41:56 2009 +0530
+
+ Entity-encode E<0xNNNN> and E<0NNN> correctly
+
+ Fixes bug #68964 reported by samv, where pod2html encoded E<0x2070> to
+ &0x2070 and not ⁰. perlpodspec says E<0x2070> should work, but the
+ code in Pod::Html accepted only E<x2070>. The new code accepts both, and
+ processes octal entities correctly as well.
+
+ Signed-off-by: Abhijit Menon-Sen <ams@toroid.org>
+
+commit 61131c9411631986e27506a8a66b4d43f2f3e4e0
+Author: Karl Williamson <khw@khw-desktop.(none)>
+Date: Thu Sep 3 11:29:30 2009 -0600
+
+ Add missing files from Unicode 5.1 Character Database
+
+
+=head2 Deprecated numerous Perl 4 era libraries:
+
+ Deprecate termcap.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate tainted.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate stat.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate shellwords.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate pwd.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate open3.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate open2.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate newgetopt.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate look.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate lib/find{,depth}.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate importenv.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate hostname.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate getopts.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate getopt.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate getcwd.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate flush.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate fastcwd.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate exceptions.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate ctime.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate complete.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate cacheout.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate bigrat.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate bigint.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate bigfloat.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate assert.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate abbrev.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate dotsh.pl with a warning
+ Deprecate timelocal.pl with a warning
+
+
+=head2 set PERL_LEGACY_UNICODE_CHARCLASS_MAPPINGS to 0 and enable proper POSIX char class matching
+
+ This also alters which Unicode properties that the POSIX character
+ class and the Perl "special" character classes, like \w and \d map
+ to. At the same time it allows a number of tests for POSIX character
+ class behaviour to be switched from todo to non todo. Legacy testing
+ is still available by changing the define and setting the
+ PERL_TEST_LEGACY_POSIX_CC value to true.
+
+
+commit 89904c08923161afd23c629d5c2c7472a09c16bb
+Author: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@v3.sk>
+Date: Mon Aug 31 11:45:23 2009 +0200
+
+ Fix unpack of abstract socket addrs with nul byte
+
+ Addresses of Linux abstract namespace sockets are not nul-terminated C
+ strings, but rather an arbitrary character arrays. According to unix(7)
+ documentation from Linux, "Null bytes in the name have no special
+ significance."
+
+ unpack_sockaddr_un() was just throwing the initial nul byte away and
+ then treating the rest like ordinary C string when computing the length
+ of the address, which was wrong. This fix utilizes the length of the PV
+ for addresses starting with nul instead.
+
+ The regression test was extended with check for the problem.
+
+
+=head2 Upgrade Term::ANSIColor to 2.02
+=head2 Update Text::Balanced to 2.02
+=head2 Update Module::Build to 0.35
+
+commit 16fa5c119c4bda5c0396a5f81296bd1ccc128a9c
+Author: Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com>
+Date: Thu Aug 27 11:13:09 2009 +0200
+
+ Speed up repeatcpy() by at least 40% for 1-char or numerous repeats
+
+ And don't make it receive the interpreter anymore.
+
+ For 1-char repeats, use memset(). Otherwise, use the old implementation up
+ to some (small) length, and then use memcpy() in a binary manner, based on
+ what we previously copied.
+
+ Note that we use memcpy() so both strings shouldn't overlap. The previous
+ implementation didn't allow this as well. This would be a good place to use
+ the restrict keyword from C99. I'm not sure if Configure has a probe for it.
+
+=head2 set utf8 bit on inferred method names when C<use utf8>
+
+=head2 New debugging flag -DB now dumps subroutine definitions,
+ leaving -Dx for its original purpose of dumping syntax trees.
+
+
+=head2 Make MAD understand the "..." operator
+
+
+=head2 Add support for Abstract namespace sockets
+
+ Abstract namespace sockets are Linux-specific socket type that live in
+ AF_UNIX family, slightly abusing it to be able to use arbitrary
+ character arrays as addresses: They start with nul byte and are not
+ terminated by nul byte, but with the length passed to the socket()
+ system call.
+
+ Added regression test for the correct address length computation.
+
+ Signed-off-by: Lubomir Rintel <lkundrak@fedoraproject.org>
+
+=head2 constant has been upgraded to 1.19. Describe the improvements.
+
+=head2 Note that linearising C3 MRO is now 40% faster for single inheritance.
+
+=head2 Fix a B::Deparse bug - constants and PCSs were appearing as subroutine stubs.
+
+
+=head2 upgrade CGI from 3.43 to 3.45
+
+commit d7c0d2821cad1d2e5b6b3d6440e7c22bfaae9559
+Author: David Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
+Date: Thu Aug 20 19:29:35 2009 +0100
+
+ add -DM flag to track smartmatch resolution
+
+
+=head2 bump Safe version to 2.18
+
+=head2 Win32: Don't explicitly link against msvcrt when using MinGW.
+
+ The latest releases of MinGW generate hard linker errors
+ when msvcrt is specified explicitly. It will still link
+ against this library implicitly anyways, so specifying it
+ isn't needed.
+
+=head2 Upgrade to threads::shared 1.31
+
+
+=head2 Update threads to 1.74
+
+
+
+=head2 Synchronize with CPAN's Attribute::Handlers 0.86
+=head2 Synchronize AutoLoader with CPAN's 5.69
+=head2 ExtUtils::MakeMaker 6.55_02
+
+=head2 Removed vestigal support for Tenon Intersystems MachTen Unix layer for MacOS Classic.
+
+=head2 Remove the port to MiNT. It's a dead platform that hasn't had any love since 5.005
+=head2 Final release of version-0.77 for inclusion in 5.10.1
+
+
+=head2 Add security contact information to perlsec
+
+ This patch inserts a short paragraph with security contact
+ information near the top of the "Perl Security" documentation
+ page. This would seem a likely place someone would look for
+ such information (rather than INSTALL or perldelta where it
+ lives today). I've put it at the top, not the bottom
+ to make it easier to find.
+
+commit 7332a6c406299d5e73836d2410689bd7c3ae4782
+Author: Vincent Pit <perl@profvince.com>
+Date: Fri Jan 2 10:26:57 2009 +0100
+
+ Introduce "delete local"
+
+=head2 autodie 2.06_01
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