MirBSD manpage: perl573delta(1)


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NAME

     perl573delta - what's new for perl v5.7.3

DESCRIPTION

     This document describes differences between the 5.7.2
     release and the 5.7.3 release.

     (To view the differences between the 5.6.0 release and the
     5.7.0 release, see perl570delta.  To view the differences
     between the 5.7.0 release and the 5.7.1 release, see
     perl571delta.  To view the differences between the 5.7.1
     release and the 5.7.2 release, see perl572delta.)

Changes

     This is just a selected list of some of the more notable
     changes. The numbers refer to the Perl repository change
     numbers; see Changes58 (or Changes in Perl 5.8.1).  In addi-
     tion to these changes, lots of work took place in integrat-
     ing threads, PerlIO, and Unicode; general code cleanup; and
     last but not least porting to non-UNIX lands such as Win32,
     VMS, Cygwin, DJGPP, VOS, MacOS Classic, and EBCDIC.

     11362
         add LC_MESSAGES to POSIX :locale_h export tag

     11371
         add DEL to [:cntrl:]

     11375
         make h2ph understand constants like 1234L and 5678LL

     11405
         Win32: fix bugs in handling of the virtualized environ-
         ment

     11410
         fix a bug in the security taint checking of open()

     11423
         make perl fork() safe even on platforms that don't have
         pthread_atfork()

     11459
         make switching optimization and debugging levels during
         Perl builds easier via the OPTIMIZE environment variable

     11475
         make split()'s unused captures to be undef, not ''

     11485
         Search::Dict: allow transforming lines before comparing

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     11490
         allow installing extra modules or bundles when building
         Perl

     11516
         add -Wall in cflags when compiling with gcc to weed out
         dubious C practices

     11541
         pluggable optimizer

     11549
         WinCE: integrate the port

     11589
         Win32: 4-arg select was broken

     11594
         introduce the perlivp utility for verifying the Perl
         installation (IVP = Installation Verification Procedure)

     11623
         rename lib/unicode to lib/unicore to avoid case-
         insensitivity problems with lib/Unicode

     111631
         remove Time::Piece

     11643
         document that use utf8 is not the right way most of the
         time

     11656
         allow building perl with -DUSE_UTF8_SCRIPTS which makes
         UTF-8 the default script encoding (not the default since
         that would break all scripts having legacy eight-bit
         data in them)

     11725
         division preserving 64-bit integers

     11743
         document the coderef-in-@INC feature

     11794
         modulo (%) preserving 64-bit integers

     11825
         update to Unicode 3.1.1

     11865
         add the \[$@%&*] prototype support

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     11874
         oct() and hex() in glorious 64 bit

     11877
         Class::Struct: allow recursive classes

     11993
         fix unpack U to be the reverse of pack U

     12056
         VMS: waitpid enhancements

     12180
         unpack("Z*Z*", pack("Z*Z*", ..)) was broken

     12243
         Devel::Peek: display UTF-8 SVs also as \x{...}

     12288
         Data::Dumper: option to sort hashes

     12542
         add perlpodspec

     12652
         threadsafe DynaLoader, re, Opcode, File::Glob, and B

     12756
         support BeOS better

     12874
         read-only hashes (user-level interface is Hash::Util)

     13162
         add Devel::PPPort

     13179
         add the sort pragma

     13326
         VMS: fix perl -P

     13358
         add perlpacktut

     13452
         SUPER-UX: add hints file

     13575
         Win32: non-blocking waitpid(-1,WNOHANG)

     13684

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         introduce the -t option for gentler taint checking

     14694
         add the if pragma

     14832
         implement IV/UV/NV/long double un/packing with j/J/F/D

     14854
         document the new taint behaviour of exec LIST and system
         LIST

Reporting Bugs

     If you find what you think is a bug, you might check the
     articles recently posted to the comp.lang.perl.misc news-
     group and the perl bug database at http://bugs.perl.org.
     There may also be information at http://www.perl.com/, 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.

SEE ALSO

     The Changes file for 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.

HISTORY

     Written by Jarkko Hietaniemi <jhi@iki.fi>, with many contri-
     butions from The Perl Porters and Perl Users submitting
     feedback and patches.

     Send omissions or corrections to <perlbug@perl.org>.

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