I'm happy to announce that we released ActivePerl 5.8.8.816 today.
The main highlights over 5.8.7.815 are:
* Based on Perl 5.8.8, plus bug fixes and module updates
* OS X version runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs
* 64 Bit beta versions available for Windows, Linux and Solaris
As usual, you can download it via the main ActivePerl page:
http://www.ActiveState.com/ActivePerl
Note that there is a separate link for downloading the 64 bit Beta
versions.
Please send feedback to
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and report bugs at
http://bugs.ActiveState.com
I've appended the relevant section of the CHANGES-58.pod file to
show some more detail on other changes from the previous release.
Cheers,
-Jan
=head2 Build 816 Thursday, Mar 2, 2006
Build 816 is based on Perl 5.8.8.
I<Bug Fixes and Changes>
=over 8
=item *
Perl 5.8.8 has been incorporated. See L<perl588delta.pod> for a list
of changes.
=item *
ActivePerl build 816 is now also available as a 64 bit Beta release
for Windows and Linux on x86_64 as well as Solaris on Sparc. The 64
bit Windows Beta does not include PerlScript, PerlEx, Perl for ISAPI
or PerlEz.
=item *
The ActivePerl Community License has been clarified. It now explicitly
allows you to redistribute certain parts of ActivePerl as part of
applications generated by wrapping tools such as by PAR, PerlApp and
Perl2Exe. Please refer to the license text for actual terms and
conditions.
=item *
ActivePerl for Mac OS X is now a Universal binary that support all
Macintosh hardware natively.
=item *
ActivePerl for Solaris is now built with the vendor compiler. Previous
releases were built with the GNU compiler (gcc).
=item *
C<ActivePerl::Config> on Solaris and HP-UX now provides compatibility so
that extensions can be built using gcc. This happens automatically if
the vendor compiler is not available on the target system.
=item *
ActivePerl now ships with a preinitialized C<CPAN::Config> module. This
avoids the need to go through the configuration dialog the first the
CPAN shell is invoked. The configuration dialog can still be invoked by
the C<o conf init> command to the CPAN shell.
=item *
Syntax colored documentation and ActiveState::Scineplex is now supported
for all the Unix platforms.
=item *
Passive transfer mode is now the default for C<Net::FTP>. This mode is
more likely to work with modern firewall setups.
=item *
Problem where 'perl -s' wasn't able to parse -foo=bar switches has been
corrected.
=item *
The stat() builtin would not return the expected result when passed a
directory name with trailing slashes on Windows. This problem has
been fixed.
This problem caused the rmtree() function of the C<File::Path> module
introduced in build 815 to fail for such directory names on Windows.
=item *
The C<IO::Socket::INET> is now more efficient and it does not rely on
getprotobyname("tcp") to be functional any more.
=item *
A problem where long groups entries could cause memory exhaustion has
been fixed.
=item *
A problem with the alarm() function on Windows 2003 has been fixed.
=item *
The Tk module would sometimes fail to update the C<-cursor> attribute of
widgets for 64-bit builds of perl. This problem has now been fixed.
=item *
Many bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions:
Digest-SHA-2.11
HTML-Tagset-3.10
HTML-Parser-3.50
HTML-Tree-3.1901
IO-String-1.08
libwww-perl-5.805
Mac-Errors-1.11
Win32-OLE-0.1704
=back
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