In perl.git, the branch blead has been updated <http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/commitdiff/d6cf23679a41a0be58c53407b9a6d8bd44882eae?hp=84c2f6fdcbbbd74e5cf941b80fca8fa35d3f9816>
- Log ----------------------------------------------------------------- commit d6cf23679a41a0be58c53407b9a6d8bd44882eae Author: Father Chrysostomos <[email protected]> Date: Fri Sep 16 09:21:05 2011 -0700 perldelta update ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of changes: pod/perldelta.pod | 104 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 97 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/pod/perldelta.pod b/pod/perldelta.pod index 1c73a8a..1a63173 100644 --- a/pod/perldelta.pod +++ b/pod/perldelta.pod @@ -1,10 +1,8 @@ =encoding utf8 =for comment -This has been completed up to 0e9700df3, except for -dcd8b78a7db42cd98ee5f1e4d4a9dea223e29989 Steffen Müller -0cb93b3a42a2d489a092d17005fb2b4dcbf74d95 idem -a62da8e6727f34e800a1b8c33214cc22c872ad0e idem +This has been completed up to 84c2f6fdcb. + =head1 NAME @@ -44,6 +42,11 @@ Almost all of these functions can now be called through references and via C<&foo()> syntax, bypassing the prototype. See L<CORE> for a list of the exceptions. +=head2 New debugger commands + +The debugger now has C<disable> and C<enable> commands for disabling +existing breakpoints and reënabling them. See L<perldebug>. + =head1 Security XXX Any security-related notices go here. In particular, any security @@ -92,6 +95,11 @@ C<ExtUtils::ParseXS> (C<xsubpp>) will emit 'static' XSUBs by default. C<ExtUtils::ParseXS>'s behaviour can be reconfigured from XS using the C<EXPORT_XSUB_SYMBOLS> keyword, see L<perlxs> for details. +=head2 Borland compiler + +All support for the Borland compiler has been dropped. The code had not +worked for a long time anyway. + =head1 Deprecations XXX Any deprecated features, syntax, modules etc. should be listed here. @@ -238,7 +246,10 @@ of data. L<File::Glob> has been upgraded from version 1.12 to version 1.13. -See L</Security>. +On Windows, tilde (~) expansion now checks the C<USERPROFILE> environment +variable, after checking C<HOME>. + +See also L</Security>. =item * @@ -264,6 +275,13 @@ support negative zero, so the resulting object was actually malformed =item * +L<Module::CoreList> has been upgraded from version 2.55 to 2.56. + +It was missing a few entries: L<DB_File> in 5.8.2, L<Errno> in 5.6.0 and +5.6.1, and L<VMS::Filespec> in 5.12.3. + +=item * + L<Module::Metadata> has been upgraded from version 1.000005_01 to version 1.000007. =item * @@ -279,6 +297,15 @@ other C<?DBM_File> modules. =item * +L<open> has been upgraded from version 1.08 to 1.09. + +It no longer turns of layers on standard handles when invoked without the +":std" directive. Similarly, when invoked I<with> the ":std" directive, it +now clears layers on STDERR before applying the new ones, and not just on +STDIN and STDOUT [perl #92728]. + +=item * + L<perlfaq> has been upgraded from version 5.01500302 to version 5.0150034. =item * @@ -310,6 +337,15 @@ builds and passes tests back to perl 5.004. =item * +L<threads::shared> has been upgraded from version 1.38 to 1.40. + +Destructors on shared objects used to be ignored sometimes if the objects +were referenced only by shared data structures. This has been mostly +fixed, but destructors may still be ignored if the objects still exist at +global destruction time [perl #98204]. + +=item * + L<XSLoader> has been upgraded from version 0.15 to version 0.16. =back @@ -349,12 +385,28 @@ concepts has been expanded. =back +=head3 L<perlpragma> + +=over 4 + +=item * + +There is now a standard convention for naming keys in the C<%^H>, +documented under L<Key naming|perlpragma/Key naming>. + +=back + =head2 Removed Documentation =head3 Old OO Documentation All the old OO tutorials, perltoot, perltooc, and perlboot, have been -removed. The perlbot (bag of object tricks) document has been removed as well. +removed. The perlbot (bag of object tricks) document has been removed as well. + +=head3 Development Deltas + +The old perldelta files for development cycles prior to 5.15 have been +removed. =head1 Diagnostics @@ -553,6 +605,10 @@ That caused problems in thread cloning, so now the C<AvREAL> flag is on, but is turned off in F<pad.c> right before the padlist is freed (after F<pad.c> has done its custom freeing of the pads). +=item * + +All the C files that make up the Perl core have been converted to UTF-8. + =back =head1 Selected Bug Fixes @@ -662,7 +718,8 @@ only once. =item * -C<chdir>, C<chmod> and C<chown> now always call FETCH if passed a tied +C<chdir>, C<chmod>, C<chown>, C<utime>, C<truncate>, C<stat>, C<lstat> and the filetest ops (C<-r>, C<-x>, etc.) +now always call FETCH if passed a tied variable as the last argument. They used to ignore tiedness if the last thing return from or assigned to the variable was a typeglob or reference to a typeglob. @@ -693,6 +750,39 @@ in some cases involving an intervening list operator between the dereference operator and the subroutine call (C<${(), lvsub()}>) [perl #98184]. +=item * + +A bug has been fixed that occurs when a tied variable is used as a +subroutine reference: if the last thing assigned to or returned from the +variable was a reference or typeglob, the C<\&$tied> could either crash or +return the wrong subroutine. The reference case is a regression introduced +in Perl 5.10.0. For typeglobs, it has probably never worked till now. + +=item * + +C<given> was not scoping its implicit $_ properly, resulting in memory +leaks or "Variable is not available" warnings [perl #94682]. + +=item * + +C<-l> followed by a bareword no longer "eats" the previous argument to +the list operator in whose argument list it resides. In less convoluted +English: C<print "bar", -l foo> now actually prints "bar", because C<-l> +on longer eats it. + +=item * + +In 5.14.0, filetest ops (C<-r>, C<-x>, etc.) started calling FETCH on a +tied argument belonging to the previous argument to a list operator, if +called with a bareword argument or no argument at all. This has been +fixed, so C<push @foo, $tied, -r> no longer calls FETCH on C<$tied>. + +=item * + +C<shmread> was not setting the scalar flags correctly when reading from +shared memory, causing the existing cached numeric representation in the +scalar to persist [perl #98480]. + =back =head1 Known Problems -- Perl5 Master Repository
