perldelta - what is new for perl v5.37.11
This document describes differences between the 5.37.10 release and the 5.37.11 release.
If you are upgrading from an earlier release such as 5.37.9, first read perl53710delta, which describes differences between 5.37.9 and 5.37.10.
On platforms that have the GNU extension LC_NAME category, you may now use it as the category parameter to "setlocale" in POSIX to set and query its locale.
B::Deparse has been upgraded from version 1.72 to 1.73.
Devel::PPPort has been upgraded from version 3.70 to 3.71.
ExtUtils::MakeMaker has been upgraded from version 7.66 to 7.70.
ExtUtils::ParseXS has been upgraded from version 3.49 to 3.50.
feature has been upgraded from version 1.81 to 1.82.
File::Copy has been upgraded from version 2.40 to 2.41.
Locale::Maketext has been upgraded from version 1.32 to 1.33.
Module::CoreList has been upgraded from version 5.20230320 to 5.20230420.
Net::Ping has been upgraded from version 2.75 to 2.76.
threads has been upgraded from version 2.35 to 2.36.
threads::shared has been upgraded from version 1.67 to 1.68.
warnings has been upgraded from version 1.63 to 1.64.
We have attempted to update the documentation to reflect the changes listed in this document. If you find any we have missed, open an issue at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues.
Additionally, the following selected changes have been made:
The descriptions of pop() and shift() have been expanded.
The descriptions of $^H and %^H have been updated.
Tests were added and changed to reflect the other additions and changes in this release. Furthermore, these significant changes were made:
The test framework now skips tests that use -T or -t when running under a perl built with the Configure option -DNO_TAINT_SUPPORT.
The buffer used by getsockopt() is now 1024 bytes by default and can be adjusted at perl build time by defining PERL_GETSOCKOPT_SIZE in ccflags. [GH #19758]
Perl 5.37.11 represents approximately 4 weeks of development since Perl 5.37.10 and contains approximately 5,500 lines of changes across 180 files from 16 authors.
Excluding auto-generated files, documentation and release tools, there were approximately 3,000 lines of changes to 110 .pm, .t, .c and .h files.
Perl continues to flourish into its fourth decade thanks to a vibrant community of users and developers. The following people are known to have contributed the improvements that became Perl 5.37.11:
Craig A. Berry, Dan Book, David Cantrell, Karl Williamson, Leon Timmermans, Lukas Mai, Nicolas R, Paul Evans, Philippe Bruhat (BooK), Scott Baker, Sevan Janiyan, Steve Hay, Tomasz Konojacki, Tony Cook, Yves Orton, Zefram.
The list above is almost certainly incomplete as it is automatically generated from version control history. In particular, it does not include the names of the (very much appreciated) contributors who reported issues to the Perl bug tracker.
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.
For a more complete list of all of Perl's historical contributors, please see the AUTHORS file in the Perl source distribution.
If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the perl bug database at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues. There may also be information at http://www.perl.org/, the Perl Home Page.
If you believe you have an unreported bug, please open an issue at https://github.com/Perl/perl5/issues. Be sure to trim your bug down to a tiny but sufficient test case.
If the bug you are reporting has security implications which make it inappropriate to send to a public issue tracker, then see "SECURITY VULNERABILITY CONTACT INFORMATION" in perlsec for details of how to report the issue.
If you wish to thank the Perl 5 Porters for the work we had done in Perl 5, you can do so by running the perlthanks program:
perlthanksThis will send an email to the Perl 5 Porters list with your show of thanks.
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.