ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePerl 5.8.9 build 825, complete, ready-to-install Perl distributions for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and AIX.
For detailed information or to download these releases, see: http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl New in ActivePerl 5.8.9 Build 825 ================================= * This build is based on the official 5.8.9 release. Please see the perl589delta document for a complete list of changes between 5.8.8 and 5.8.9: http://docs.activestate.com/activeperl/5.8/lib/pods/perl589delta.html Note though that ActivePerl build 821 already started incorporating changes from the 5.8.x maintenance track, so many of these changes may have already been introduced in 821, 822, 823 or 824. * PPM v4.4 is now included. This release fixes an infinite recursion problem in the 'ppm tree' command for packages that declared circular dependencies, and it fixes the problem that caused installing packages from .ppmx files in other directories to fail. This release also include tweaks to the heuristics for when to check for updates to repository data. PPM should no longer check the same repo more than once each day. The ppm command creates a log of the actions it takes. On Unix ppm used to write the log file to the home directory of the user. This release moves the ppm4.log file into the ~/Libraray/Logs directory on Mac OS X and into the ~/.ActivePerl directory for the rest. On Windows the log file goes into the temp directory as before. * PerlEx now sets the MOD_PERL environment variable (to "PerlEx/3.0") so that modules that behave differently under mod_perl will behave the same way under PerlEx (e.g. CGI::Carp). * The following modules have been added to ActivePerl: Package-Constants 0.1 * The following bundled modules have been updated to their latest versions: Archive-Tar 1.38-r1 1.40-r1 Archive-Zip 1.20 1.26 CGI 3.41 3.42 Compress-Raw-Zlib 2.012 2.015 Compress-Zlib 2.012 2.015 Data-Dump 1.11 1.12 File-HomeDir 0.80 0.82 HTML-Parser 3.56 3.59 IO-Compress-Base 2.012 2.015 IO-Compress-Zlib 2.012 2.015 JSON-XS 2.2222 2.23 libwww-perl 5.814 5.822 Module-Build 0.2808_01 0.30 Sub-Uplevel 0.1901 0.2002 Tcl 0.95-r1 0.97-r1 Text-CSV_XS 0.52 0.58 WWW-Mechanize 1.34-r1 1.52-r1 Win32-API 0.55 0.57 YAML-LibYAML 0.27-r1 0.29 Getting Started =============== Whether you're a first-time user or a long-time fan, our free resources will help you get the most from ActivePerl. Mailing list archives: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Mail/Browse/Threaded/ActivePerl Feedback ======== Everyone is encouraged to participate in making Perl an even better language. For bugs related to ActiveState use: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePerl&version=825 For bugs related directly to Perl please use the 'perlbug' utility. Enjoy! _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
