From: Perl 5 Porters <perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 1996 00:15:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: New file.  Changes from 5.002 to 5.003
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New file.  Changes from 5.002 to 5.003
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+-------------
+Version 5.003
+-------------
+
+		  ***>  IMPORTANT NOTICE:  <***
+The main reason for this release was to fix a security bug affecting
+suidperl on some systems.  If you build suidperl on your system, it
+is strongly recommended that you replace any existing copies with
+version 5.003 or later immediately.
+
+The changes in 5.003 have been held to a minimum, in the hope that this
+will simplify installation and testing at sites which may be affected
+by the security hole in suidperl.  In brief, 5.003 does the following:
+
+- Plugs security hole in suidperl mechanism on affected systems
+
+- MakeMaker was also updated to version 5.34, and extension Makefile.PLs
+  were modified to match it.
+
+- The following hints files were updated: bsdos.sh, hpux.sh, linux.sh,
+  machten.sh, solaris_2.sh
+
+- A fix was added to installperl to insure that file permissions were
+  set correctly for the installed C header files.
+
+- t/op/stat.t was modified to work around MachTen's belief that /dev/null
+  is a terminal device.
+
+- Incorporation of Perl version information into the VMS' version of
+  config.h was changed to make it compatible with the older VAXC.
+
+- Minor fixes were made to VMS-specific C code, and the routine
+  VMS::Filespec::rmsexpand was added.
+
+----------------
+Version 5.002_01
+----------------
+
+- The EMBED namespace changes are now used by default, in order to better
+  segregate Perl's C global symbols from those belonging to embedding
+  applications or to libraries.  This makes it necessary to rebuild dynamic
+  extensions built under previous versions of Perl without the EMBED option.
+  The default use of EMBED can be overridden by placing -DNO_EMBED on the
+  cc command line.
+
+  The EMBED change is the beginning of a general cleanup of C global
+  symbols used by Perl, so binary compatibility with previously
+  compiled dynamic extensions may be broken again in the next few
+  releases.
+
+- Several bugs in the core were fixed, including the following:
+   - made sure FILE * for -e temp file was closed only once
+   - improved form of single-statement macro definitions to keep
+     as many ccs as possible happy
+   - fixed file tests to insure that signed values were used when
+     computing differences between times.
+   - fixed toke.c so implicit loop isn't doubled when perl is
+     invoked with both the -p and -n switches
+
+- The new SUBVERSION number has been included in the default value for
+  architecture-specific library directories, so development and
+  production architecture-dependent libraries can coexist.
+
+- Two new magic variables, $^E and $^O, have been added.  $^E contains the
+  OS-specific equivalent of $!.  $^O contains the name of the operating
+  system, in order to make it easily available to Perl code whose behavior
+  differs according to its environment.  The standard library files have
+  been converted to use $^O in preference to $Config{'osname'}.
+
+- A mechanism was added to allow listing of locally applied patches
+  in the output of perl -v.
+
+- Miscellaneous minor corrections and updates were made to the documentation.
+
+- Extensive updates were made to the OS/2 and VMS ports
+
+- The following hints file were updated: bsdos.sh, dynixptx.sh,
+  irix_6_2.sh, linux.sh, os2.sh
+
+- Several changes were made to standard library files:
+   - reduced use of English.pm and $`, $', and $& in library modules,
+     since these degrade module loading and evaluation of regular expressions,
+     respectively.
+   - File/Basename.pm: Added path separator to dirname('.')
+   - File/Copy.pm: Added support for VMS and OS/2 system-level copy
+   - MakeMaker updated to v5.26
+   - Symbol.pm now accepts old (') and new (::) package delimiters
+   - Sys/Syslog.pm uses Sys::Hostname only when necessary
+   - chat2.pl picks up necessary constants from socket.ph
+   - syslog.pl: Corrected thinko 'Socket' --> 'Syslog'
+   - xsubpp updated to v1.935
+
+
+- The perlbug utility is now more cautious about sending mail, in order
+  to reduce the chance of accidentally send a bug report by giving the
+  wrong response to a prompt.
+
+- The -m switch has been added to perldoc, causing it to display the 
+  Perl code in target file as well as any documentation.
+