The deprecated C<$#> variable (output format for numbers) has been
removed.
-Two new warnings, C<$#/$* is no longer supported>, have been added.
+Two new severe warnings, C<$#/$* is no longer supported>, have been added.
=head2 substr() lvalues are no longer fixed-length
C<*::ConfigData> modules that contain local configuration information for
their parent modules.)
-=head2 C<cpanp>
+=item cpanp
C<cpanp>, the CPANPLUS shell, has been added. (C<cpanp-run-perl>, an
helper for CPANPLUS operation, has been added too, but isn't intended for
direct use).
-=head2 C<cpan2dist>
+=item cpan2dist
C<cpan2dist> is a new utility, that comes with CPANPLUS. It's a tool to
create distributions (or packages) from CPAN modules.
-=head2 C<pod2html>
+=item pod2html
The output of C<pod2html> has been enhanced to be more customizable via
CSS. Some formatting problems were also corrected. (Jari Aalto)
A new manual page, L<perlunifaq> (the Perl Unicode FAQ), has been added
(Juerd Waalboer).
+The L<CORE> manual page documents the C<CORE::> namespace. (Tels)
+
The long-existing feature of C</(?{...})/> regexps setting C<$_> and pos()
is now documented.
=item Visual C++
-Perl now can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++ 2005.
+Perl now can be compiled with Microsoft Visual C++.
=item Win32 builds
Opening dirhandle %s also as a file
Opening filehandle %s also as a directory
+=item Use of -P is deprecated
+
+Perl's command-line switch C<-P> is now deprecated.
+
=item perl -V
C<perl -V> has several improvements, making it more useable from shell
=for p5p XXX new BIND SV type, #29544, #29642
-=head1 New Tests
-
=head1 Known Problems
There's still a remaining problem in the implementation of the lexical