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NAME

perl5111delta - what is new for perl v5.11.1

DESCRIPTION

This document describes differences between the 5.11.0 release and the 5.11.1 release.

Incompatible Changes

Core Enhancements

Add package NAME VERSION syntax

This new syntax allows a module author to set the $VERSION of a namespace when the namespace is declared with 'package'. It eliminates the need for our $VERSION = ... and similar constructs. E.g.

package Foo::Bar 1.23;
# $Foo::Bar::VERSION == 1.23

There are several advantages to this:

Modules and Pragmata

Updated Modules

New Documentation

Changes to Existing Documentation

Documentation for $1 in perlvar.pod clarified

Performance Enhancements

if (%foo) has been optimized to be faster than if (keys %foo)

Platform Specific Notes

Darwin (Mac OS X)
  • Skip testing the be_BY.CP1131 locale on Darwin 10 (Mac OS X 10.6), as it's still buggy.

  • Correct infelicities in the regexp used to identify buggy locales on Darwin 8 and 9 (Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5, respectively).

DragonFly BSD
  • Fix thread library selection [perl #69686]

Win32
  • Initial support for mingw64 is now available

  • Various bits of Perl's build infrastructure are no longer converted to win32 line endings at release time. If this hurts you, please speak up.

Selected Bug Fixes

New or Changed Diagnostics

Testing

Known Problems

Untriaged test crashes on Windows 2000

Several porters have reported mysterious crashes when Perl's entire test suite is run after a build on certain Windows 2000 systems. When run by hand, the individual tests reportedly work fine.

Known test failures on VMS

Perl 5.11.1 fails a small set of core and CPAN tests as of this release. With luck, that'll be sorted out for 5.11.2

Errata for 5.11.0

The Perl 5.11.0 release notes incorrectly described 'delete local'

Acknowledgements

Perl 5.11.1 represents approximately 3 weeks development since Perl 5.11.0 contains 22,000 lines of changes across 396 files from 26 authors and committers:

Abigail, Alex Vandiver, brian d foy, Chris Williams, Craig A. Berry, David Fifield, David Golden, demerphq, Eric Brine, Geoffrey T. Dairiki, George Greer, H.Merijn Brand, Jan Dubois, Jerry D. Hedden, Jesse Vincent, Josh ben Jore, Max Maischein, Nicholas Clark, Rafael Garcia-Suarez, Simon Schubert, Sisyphus, Smylers, Steve Hay, Steve Peters, Vincent Pit and Yves Orton.

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.

Reporting Bugs

If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc newsgroup and the perl bug database at http://rt.perl.org/perlbug/ . There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/ , the Perl Home Page.

If you believe you have an unreported bug, please run the perlbug program included with your release. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case. Your bug report, along with the output of perl -V, will be sent off to perlbug@perl.org to be analysed by the Perl porting team.

If the bug you are reporting has security implications, which make it inappropriate to send to a publicly archived mailing list, then please send it to perl5-security-report@perl.org. This points to a closed subscription unarchived mailing list, which includes all the core committers, who be able to help assess the impact of issues, figure out a resolution, and help co-ordinate the release of patches to mitigate or fix the problem across all platforms on which Perl is supported. Please only use this address for security issues in the Perl core, not for modules independently distributed on CPAN.

SEE ALSO

The Changes file for an explanation of how to view exhaustive details on what changed.

The INSTALL file for how to build Perl.

The README file for general stuff.

The Artistic and Copying files for copyright information.