From: Jesse Vincent <jesse@bestpractical.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 22:50:07 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Full initial pass at perldelta. ready for sanity checking
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Full initial pass at perldelta. ready for sanity checking
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diff --git a/pod/perl5113delta.pod b/pod/perl5113delta.pod
index 841b1b2..d1ead86 100644
--- a/pod/perl5113delta.pod
+++ b/pod/perl5113delta.pod
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ the L<perl5112delta>, which describes differences between 5.11.1 and
 
 =item Filehandles are blessed directly into C<IO::Handle::>, as C<FileHandle> is merely a wrapper around C<IO::Handle>.
 
-The previous behaviour was to bless Filehandles into L<FileHandle/>
+The previous behaviour was to bless Filehandles into L<FileHandle>
 (an empty proxy class) if it was loaded into memory and otherwise
 to bless them into C<IO::Handle::>.
 
@@ -151,18 +151,17 @@ turned off.  These include all the Unihan properties (which should be
 accessible via the CPAN module Unicode::Unihan) and any deprecated or
 Unicode internal-only property that Perl has never exposed.
 
-XXX what does "files in the To directory" mean? -- dagolden, 2009-12-20
-
-The files in the C<lib/unicore/To> directory are now more clearly marked as
-being stable, directly usable by applications.  New hash entries in them give
-the format of the normal entries, which allows for easier machine parsing.
-Perl can generate files in this directory for any property, though most are
-suppressed.  An installation can choose to change which get written.
-Instructions are in L<perluniprops>.
+The generated files in the C<lib/unicore/To> directory are now more
+clearly marked as being stable, directly usable by applications.
+New hash entries in them give the format of the normal entries,
+which allows for easier machine parsing.  Perl can generate files
+in this directory for any property, though most are suppressed.  An
+installation can choose to change which get written.  Instructions
+are in L<perluniprops>.
 
 =head2 Regular Expressions
 
-U+0FFFF is now a legal character in regular expressions
+U+0FFFF is now a legal character in regular expressions.
 
 =head1 Modules and Pragmata
 
@@ -285,18 +284,6 @@ conditional loading of modules despite the implicit BEGIN block around C<use>.
 
 =head1 Installation and Configuration Improvements
 
-XXX Changes to F<Configure>, F<installperl>, F<installman>, and analogous tools
-go here.
-
-=head2 Configuration improvements
-
-XXX
-
-=head2 Compilation improvements
-
-    Make distclean work again
-XXX
-
 =head2 Testing improvements
 
 =over 4
@@ -359,10 +346,6 @@ no in answer to the interactive question.
 
 =head1 Selected Bug Fixes
 
-XXX Important bug fixes in the core language are summarised here.
-Bug fixes in files in F<ext/> and F<lib/> are best summarised in
-L</Modules and Pragmata>.
-
 =over 4
 
 =item *
@@ -513,8 +496,23 @@ problems in the implementation of scopes.
 
 =head1 Acknowledgements
 
-XXX The list of people to thank goes here.
-
+Perl 5.11.3 represents approximately one month of development since
+Perl 5.11.2 and contains 61407 lines of changes across 396 files
+from 40 authors and committers:
+
+Abigail, Alex Davies, Alexandr Ciornii, Andrew Rodland, Andy
+Dougherty, Bram, brian d foy, Chip Salzenberg, Chris Williams, Craig
+A. Berry, Daniel Frederick Crisman, David Golden, Dennis Kaarsemaker,
+Eric Brine, Father Chrysostomos, Gene Sullivan, Gerard Goossen, H.
+Merijn Brand, Hugo van der Sanden, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden,
+Jesse Vincent, Jim Cromie, Karl Williamson, Leon Brocard, Max
+Maischein, Michael Breen, Moritz Lenz, Nicholas Clark, Rafael
+Garcia-Suarez, Reini Urban, Ricardo Signes, Stepan Kasal, Steve
+Hay, Steve Peters, Tim Bunce, Tony Cook, Vincent Pit and Zefram.
+
+Many of the changes included in this version originated in the CPAN
+modules included in Perl's core. We're grateful to the entire CPAN
+community for helping Perl to flourish.
 
 =head1 Reporting Bugs